ISABELLA
The world went still, but my pulse didn’t change.
“Which one?” I asked.
He shook his head. “I don’t know his name. But I know his voice.”
“Describe him.”
“He… he spoke with authority. Like he expected to be obeyed. And he said something—something I didn’t understand.”
“What?”
The man swallowed hard.
“He said, ‘The Dona won’t last two weeks.’”
Luca’s grip tightened on his gun. “You’re lying.”
“I’m not,” the man whispered. “I swear it. I heard him. He said the council would tear her apart. That she’d be dead before the safe was opened.”
My blood turned to ice.
Someone in that room — one of the twelve bosses — had already decided my fate.Planned my death and moved against me.
I stepped closer, my voice low and lethal.
“Show me the footage.”
The man nodded quickly. “It’
