The Castellanos had been patient.
That was the thing about them, the thing that made them more dangerous than families who moved on impulse or anger. The Castellanos were architects, not soldiers. They built plans the way other people built buildings, foundation first, structure second, visible surface last, and by the time anyone on the outside could see what was being constructed it was already load-bearing.
Their intelligence operation had been running for eight months. Marco discovered this not through his own surveillance, which was thorough, but through a contact inside the Castellano organization who owed the De Lucas a debt that had been quietly accumulating for three years and had now reached a value at which repayment became preferable to continued obligation. The contact deliv
