Chapter 116

116.

The only problem was the head of the Murphy family would expect

him to keep it under the radar of the authorities. A highly public escalation

in hostilities wouldn’t be appreciated or condoned. That didn’t mean Shane

wasn’t going to do exactly what he wanted to serve Aldo Peretti’s head on a

fucking plate. Turning to Bruno as the other man joined him, he said, “Find

his drug dens and whorehouses. I want to know his moneymakers, and then

I want to tear them down. Burn out the bastards and leave nothing but

destruction in your wake.”

As Bruno nodded, Shane thought of Mia, knowing on an instinctive

level she wouldn’t approve of his plan. Feeling a shred of something he

wished he could ignore and didn’t want to label as compassion, he added,

“Try not to harm any innocents. Clear out the whores and the low-level

addicts if you can. I want to harm his profits and him personally, but

without a lot of collateral damage.”

If Bruno was surprised by the caveat of mercy, he did