Chapter 5 - The Council of Bosses
Rosa instinctively reached for her throat, her fingers grasping only empty air where her necklace usually rested.
She stared at the silver locket in Dante's hand, feeling the walls of the room closing in around her.
Isabella suddenly appeared in the doorway, flanked by her own personal bodyguards.
The blonde woman wore a triumphant smirk, her eyes gleaming with malicious satisfaction.
She loudly accused Rosa of hiring the assassin to stage a fake attack in order to frame her and secure a permanent place in the mafia.
Rosa desperately denied the accusation, swearing that her locket must have been stolen from her uniform locker earlier that day.
Alessandro looked at the necklace, his expression unreadable and terrifyingly calm.
Before he could speak, the heavy oak doors of the master suite were pushed open by Mr. Bruno, the elderly butler.
He announced that the Commission, the ruling council of the five mafia families, had called an emergency meeting in the grand dining room.
The attempted assassination of a mafia boss's heir was an act of war that demanded immediate tribunal justice.
Alessandro took Rosa by the hand, lacing his fingers through hers in a silent display of absolute loyalty.
He marched her down the grand staircase, facing the five most powerful mob bosses in the city.
The men sat around the long mahogany table, their faces grim and unforgiving.
Isabella stood behind her father's empty chair, demanding that Rosa be tortured and executed for treason.
The head of the council asked Rosa to explain her past and why she possessed the financial means to hire a professional hitman.
Rosa knew she had no choice but to reveal the darkest secret of her life.
She confessed that before she worked for the Morettis, she had been a maid in the Romano household in Chicago.
She had fled in the middle of the night and changed her name because she had witnessed something horrific.
She looked directly at Isabella and stated that she had seen Isabella murder her own previous fiancé to avoid an arranged marriage.
The entire dining room erupted into deafening shouts and drawn weapons.
Isabella turned pale white, screaming that Rosa was a lying, manipulative whore.
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Just as Alessandro raised his gun to silence the room, a massive explosion shook the front gates of the estate.
Vincent Romano had finally arrived from Chicago, bringing an army of heavily armed men to slaughter everyone inside.
