Chapter 26 Blood And Gold

• The plane touched down in Dubai at sunset as the city rose from the desert. Glass towers that scraped the clouds. Gold-plated everything. Money flowing like water in a place where water cost more than blood.
• Santino stepped off the private jet into air that tasted like heat and ambition. His new territory stretched from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf. Ports in Spain. Warehouses in Morocco. And now, a foothold in the Middle East.
• The expansion had been swift and Efficient.