Chapter 9 - The Poisoned Betrayal
With the perimeter secured and the remaining mercenaries neutralized by Marco’s security force, Damiano personally descended into the holding cells below the mansion.
He dragged the surviving leader of the mercenary team into the main interrogation room, where Vivian sat trembling against the cold wall.
"Who hired you?" Damiano asked, his voice low, calm, and terrifyingly cold.
The bruised mercenary captain looked up, coughing weakly. "It wasn't... it wasn't a rival family, Moretti."
"Speak," Marco growled, stepping closer.
"It was your uncle... Councilman DeLuca," the man confessed, his voice shaking. "He paid Vivian to clear you out of the way. But he needed the maid and the child dead first."
"Why?" Damiano asked, his eyes narrowing into deadly slits. "Why target a maid?"
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Vivian looked up from the floor, tears streaming down her pale face. "Because she isn't just a maid, Damiano! Her late husband... Julian... he wasn't just some low-level worker who died in an accident!"
Damiano froze. Julian Moretti was Damiano’s younger brother, who had mysteriously disappeared five years ago during a territorial dispute in Brooklyn.
