Alessandro had advised me to drop any investigation I was planning on opening against Syrius but I couldn’t. I had to know what he’d promised my father and what my father had promised in return. Alessandro was trying to downplay the impact of this merger but I knew that he was worried as much as I was.
This was easily one of the biggest and most shocking news that the mafia world had gotten in a long time and everyone who knew about it was trying to keep it under wraps before it blew up and turned into a full-blown war.
“You don’t ever listen to me, do you?” Alessandro asked as he took a look at the computer screen in front of me.
“You know I do, Alessandro.” I sighed, rubbing my temple. “But this is different and I know that you’re well aware of it.”
“Whatever you might think it is, y
