CHAPTER SIXTY-EIGHT

"SPARE HER"

A week had passed since the infiltrator in Jânio's gang told them he had heard from the leader himself that he had killed Túlio. They couldn't invade Jânio's mansion without Paco's orders or approval. Paco had been unreachable since he returned from whatever country he had been hiding from Interpol in, and fights had been breaking out since then. Túlio's men were constantly putting out fires. Cloe had barely seen Gringo that week, and the current leader had taken Layla to another location. In the early hours of the day they heard that Jânio might have killed Túlio, four men sent by Gringo entered Layla's house and took her away to a place Cloe couldn't even know. Gringo hugged her and explained that it was necessary and that she had his word that Layla would be treated well. He insisted that Cloe stay with her, but Cloe didn't even bother to respond, which he had already expected, and so she couldn't know where they had taken her.

Despair overwhelmed her again. Many days