Chapter 79

• LUCAS' POV
• There's monsters in this world that make the devil himself run and hide. Then there's guys who make those monsters piss themselves at night. In our circles, the mafia talks about these ghosts—men who got so damn good at violence they stopped being human. They turned into something else. Something worse. In my years as Don Morretti, I only ever knew one man who made killers shake: Richard Jenkins.
• In our business, reputation is currency, and fear is the gold standard. Richard Jenkins didn't need a reputation—he was the void that reputations disappeared into.