Chapter 84

Alessio

"Now that you all know it's final, we'll attack before the wedding," I declared, locking eyes with each person in the room. This was the last meeting before we would set our plan into motion.

Unlike last time, there were no interruptions, no disagreements—everyone listened and knew what we had to do.

We would leave in a few days, stay in the Midwest, discuss further, and then head west to the Baldinis. I had already taken care of every single detail and had looked at every outcome—and none of those included us losing to Leonardo.

With the new information provided by Mikael, I could tell that he was weak, the other families were weak, and their weapons couldn’t hold a candle to ours. They might’ve been our competitors in business matters, but going to war with them, having the families behind us we had, they would not stand a choice.

He was just a weak man hiding behind a made-up nickname. I knew better than to underestimate an opponent—but in this case, I was confident.

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