Chapter 101 Falling Apart Because Of Love

Zandra Franco POV

Greggy slams his fists against the table, his grim expression made much more bitter by the harsh light overhead.

“I lost an eighth of my men last night to those Bernardino dogs!” he seethes. “And they’re disrupting my businesses. I’ve seen an almost fifty percent decrease in profit since this war you started.”

I let the old man finish, frankly too irritated to trust myself with a responsible follow-up. The family heads and I am gathered today in the private backroom of one of my family’s restaurants—a front for smuggling weapons in and out using the clever disguise of food crates—for an emergency meeting. My uncles and even Dad are here to sit in on the meeting, a testament to how serious things are getting. We’re all flabbergasted at the amount of progress Xander has made in such a short amount of time, and he doesn’t show any signs of slowing down.

“This is your fault,” Greggy continues, the vein in his temple popping as he points an accusatory finger at me. “Why d