Chapter 4 - Closing the Gates
Adrian pulled a sleek black smartphone from his suit jacket pocket, his eyes never leaving Elena’s bruised arm.
He glanced toward his senior lieutenant standing near the tall windows overlooking the city skyline. The lieutenant immediately bowed his head, waiting for the command that would alter the course of the city's underground hierarchy.
"Lock the gates," Adrian ordered in a deadly, quiet tone into his phone. "Nobody leaves this city tonight. Block every highway, seal the harbor, and station our men at every exit point."
"Yes, Don Valenti," his captain's voice answered over the speaker before the line went dead.
Adrian slid the phone back into his pocket and looked down at Elena. The fragile maid was still kneeling on the carpet, clutching her arm as tears stained her beige dress. But behind her fear lay something deeper—a hidden secret that she had carried with her since the day she entered the Valenti estate.
The chest her attackers had stolen from the eastern docks was not just filled with old family clothes or sentimental keepsakes. Inside that locked iron box was the original ledger detailing twenty years of illegal extortion, bribery, and murders committed by the rival crew's syndicate boss, Victor Vance.
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Elena had kept the ledger hidden for years to protect herself, but Victor Vance had finally tracked it down. By beating her and taking the chest, Vance believed he had secured his immunity and destroyed the only evidence that could ruin him.
👉 Read Part 5 to see the hidden truth behind Elena's mother's legacy.
