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Arawn

My men had spent quite a good amount of time, looking into the murder cases. But even after asking the underbosses and interrogating the people who could have witnessed something in the respective districts, they came back with nothing.

Which bothered me because this has never happened.

And even if I normally wouldn’t care much about the matter, and New York was surely not Disney Land, I couldn’t let it go.

Not if it was so close that it seemed to come for Nerthus.

After I got the profile made by the profilers, I already thought that Derek wouldn’t quite match the picture. He was a sunny boy, always known to enjoy partying with women. He didn’t seem the type who wanted to cancel and humiliate them.

But I couldn’t ignore what Vito had said, so I stuck with it.

Until we found him in a rehab clinic, still trying to cope with his injuries.

Well, damn it.

My boots hit the wooden tiles of the pedestrian overpass, generating a hollow sound as I reach the hut to meet Mattia. He is alre