Off Limits Mafia King: An Enemies To Lovers, Billionaire Romance by Lake Breanna

Author:Lake, Breanna
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-08-08T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 23

Thomas

I’m not daydreaming about Clara at the emergency meeting the next morning.

My generals sit around me, repeating the gory details I was there to experience. Speare and Warwick men opened fire on each other in the middle of a crowded party meant to celebrate the recently elected Sheriff. The shootout ended in the death of the District Attorney and six others.

Two of the dead men were Morgan’s, including his right hand, Barnabas Harrow, shot by me through the neck. Three others were part of Lindman’s event security.

The last man dead was mine. Charlie Rowland, a bright twenty-two-year-old who I had planned to promote.

Every angle of this is bad. Having a mafia shootout in the middle of a political event is bad for everyone’s business. If Derrick Lindman can’t keep his mafia ties quiet, it will endanger his career and waste my investment in him. He’s going to be more cautious now. And the longer it takes him to agree to a deal with me, the more time Morgan has to gather for war.

And a declaration of war is exactly what last night became, in front of multiple witnesses. Blood has been lost on both sides. There’s no walking that back.

The Warwicks and Speares are at war once again.

Then there’s the loss of the D.A., who has been on my payroll and my father’s for almost three decades. I’ll have to curate a new D.A. now, which takes trust to do. Trust I blew to pieces last night by bringing trouble right to the door of people who would prefer to forget I even exist.

No matter that Morgan shot first. I brought his niece into the room and paraded her around as an ally and lover. Clara herself claimed that we had that connection in front of her uncle. As much as I admired in the moment that she tried to play along, it makes for bad optics when star-crossed love leads to the death of six people and the traumatization of three dozen others.

I shouldn’t have brought Clara into this. I should have given her cash for a down payment on a house, forged her a new identity, and helped her disappear to the other side of the country. Despite her uncle’s best efforts, there are ways for any person to vanish off the grid if they’re careful and have the right allies.

But no, I wanted to use her against her uncle. I thought I could play the same mind games with her that I have hundreds of times before. I thought that, with the right leverage, I could make her move in the ways I dictated.

And if I’m being totally honest with myself, I wanted to find a way to keep her close, and made edit after edit to my own plans in service of that goal.

The table falls silent around me. The worst of the gory details have been pulled apart, and now they’re all waiting for me to tell them what the plan is. Well, the

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