Chapter 4 - The War in the ShadowsA week after the shooting, the peace in New York shattered completely.

At two o'clock in the morning, a fiery explosion rocked an industrial warehouse near the Brooklyn Navy Yard—a primary shipping hub owned by the Costa crime syndicate. Before dawn broke, three of Victor Costa's top lieutenants were found dead inside a luxury sedan parked outside a precinct station in Midtown.

Dominic sat behind the dark mahogany desk in his private study on the top floor of the Rossi estate in Long Island. The room smelled of old leather, rich tobacco, and expensive bourbon.

Enzo stood across from him, laying a set of surveillance photographs onto the polished wood.

"Costa is panicking," Enzo said. "The hit on your mother failed, his shipping lanes are burning, and now the Commission is demanding he answer for the ballroom shooting."

"He won't go to the Commission," Dominic said, swirling the amber liquid in his glass. "He knows I control three of the five votes. He's cornered."

"Which makes him dangerous, Boss," Enzo warned. "He knows about the girl's mother in Vermont."

Dominic’s glass froze halfway to his lips. His dark eyes flicked up to meet Enzo’s. "What did you say?"

"One of Costa's trackers was spotted asking questions near the clinic in Burlington yesterday," Enzo reported quickly. "Our security detail handled him quietly, but Costa is digging. He’s trying to figure out why you married a random diner worker."

Dominic set his glass down with a heavy thud. "He won't find anything about her past. The paper trail was burned twenty years ago."

"Boss..." Enzo hesitated, stepping closer to the desk. "If Costa digs deep enough into her mother's real identity... he's going to discover who Clara’s father was. He's going to realize she isn't just a waitress who saved your mother. She's the last surviving heir to the Moretti family."

Dominic stood up slowly, his imposing height casting a long shadow across the room.

"The Moretti family is dead," Dominic said coldly. "I made sure of that ten years ago."

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"Then if Clara ever finds out that the man who married her is the same man who put her real father in the ground—"

"She won't find out," Dominic cut him off, his voice dropping into an icy command that silenced the room. "Because Victor Costa is going to die before he can open his mouth."