Chapter 56 Wedding Bells And War Drums

• (POV: Ricardo, a Montoya Captain)
• The morning started like any other tense morning before a major family event – too quiet. The air in the security command center, hidden deep within the Miami estate, felt thick enough to choke on. We were just hours away from Señorita Montoya marrying Don Mateo Castillo. Most of us old Montoya loyalists didn’t like it, but Don Santiago had given the order. And Castillo… well, no one crossed Castillo. Not if they valued their skin.
• I was reviewing the guard rotations for the pre-wedding movements, my third cup of bitter coffee already cold beside me, when the first call crackled through the secure radio.