The men nearest me moved back. Sienna’s recorded voice carried through the basement.
“Voice note seventeen. Dante’s uncle, Carlo, required a complete blood transfusion after a rival family hit. The safe house blood supply was contaminated. I used my own. O-negative. Universal donor. Dante was with Elena at the time. She had a cold.”
I remembered calling Carlo’s injury minor because it interrupted my evening. At Elena’s safe house, I had fed her soup while Sienna gave Carlo her blood.
“Voice note thirty-two. Dante was poisoned by the cartel with a slow-acting neurotoxin. He dismissed the symptoms as a stomach flu. I synthesized a new antitoxin in my private lab and administered it over three nights while he slept. He recovered and spent the next day helping Elena choose a birthday gift f
