After dark.
Julian and Victor ate dinner with Sebastian's family, constantly comforting the old mother during the meal, promising that once the heat died down, they'd find a way to get Sebastian back to the Sixth District as a police officer.
The old lady still didn't know Silas was dead. She didn't dream of her son becoming rich and powerful. She only wanted the old days back—her children with jobs, food on the table. That way, even if she closed her eyes one day, she'd go in peace.
But Julian and Victor knew clear in their hearts—as long as the Vale family stood, and Sebastian had no real status change, returning to the Sixth District as an officer was nothing but a pipe dream.
After dinner, the three brothers gathered in Sebastian's room. Victor closed the door tight, pulled a beat-
