Chapter 36

• The upper wing of the estate had somehow survived mostly intact. Leo led Kai up the grand staircase and into the master suite that had once belonged to the old Don — his false father. The room smelled of old wood, gun smoke, and faint traces of expensive cologne that no longer mattered.
• Leo locked the heavy double doors behind them.
• For the first time in weeks, there were no immediate gunfights, no urgent briefings, no video threats. Just silence and the two of them.