Chapter Thirteen

She managed to push him into the fire and raise the brand above her head as if to stab him and his guards reacted exactly how she had hoped. The sound of the guns going off seemed to be far away and she felt nothing as the bullets slammed into her naked body, and she crumpled to the floor dead before she hit the ground. Maria had got her final wish, she had escaped from hell and Pelligrenni was furious with his men, even though he sustained substantial burns to his hands and face he yelled at them for killing her.

In the end, though he showed her one last act of kindness, he made the arrangements to send her body back to Carlos and she was buried with all the love and tears the death of a young Mother murdered two days before her thirtieth birthday should have.

Pelligrenni should have realised that sending her back would not be the end and that Carlos would make him pay dearly, he traced the place Maria had been sent back to him from and then he came for the other Don. The isolated