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2025-02-09 08:05:46Cillian appraised Flanagan with a calm smirk. “I’ve already spoken to the Council and explained everything to them about your betrayal to our cause, your defection to the mafia and the plan to hand over all our port assets in Boston to Antonio Ferrante once he marries Guinevere O’Malley who has a stake in our holdings here due to her inheritance which you stole from her when you sold her.”
Flanagan blustered and stepped away as his men were forced back from the door by several men crashing in with guns held up and swat vests on looking like police doing a raid. Only they all knew it wasn’t the police, but it would stop any public witnesses from calling the police.
Cillian watched as Flanagan and his men were forced to lie on the ground and then rose to his feet to stand over them. “As we speak your top lieutenants have all been visited in a similar fashion to you and told the same things…it’s over, Sean…”
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