Chapter 14 - The Hostage
They drove for an hour in total silence until they reached an abandoned veterinary clinic on the outskirts of the city.
It was a perfectly discreet location for a nurse and a mafia boss who desperately needed medical supplies.
Clara dragged Elena's unconscious body from the trunk and tied her securely to a cold stainless steel examination table.
Titan paced nervously around the room, sniffing the lingering scents of bleach and old animal fear.
Clara immediately raided the clinic's locked supply cabinets, gathering surgical staples, antibiotics, and actual surgical tubing.
"Sit down," Clara ordered Adrian, pointing to a metal chair under a bright surgical lamp.
Adrian complied silently, allowing her to carefully remove the bloody plastic pen from his windpipe.
She worked with mechanical precision, cleaning the wound, inserting a proper tracheostomy tube, and stitching the surrounding tissue.
"You are very good at this," Adrian noted, his voice sounding much clearer and stronger through the sterile medical tube.
"I had to be," Clara replied coldly, wrapping his neck in fresh white gauze.
A sudden, sharp groan echoed from the examination table across the room.
Elena was waking up, struggling wildly against the heavy leather restraints binding her wrists and ankles.
Adrian stood up slowly, grabbing a heavy metal bone saw from the veterinary surgical tray.
He walked toward his wife, his shadow falling heavily over her terrified face.
"Leo is sloppy, but he is not stupid," Adrian said, tapping the saw gently against the metal table.
"Where is he hiding, Elena?"
Elena spat violently at Adrian, her beautiful face twisted into an ugly mask of pure hatred.
"You are a dead man walking, Adrian," she hissed fiercely.
"Leo and Vincenzo Morretti are meeting tonight at the financial district penthouse to officially merge the families."
Clara stepped forward, her eyes burning with an intense, icy fury.
"My father is in the city?" Clara asked, her voice trembling with barely contained rage.
Elena laughed, a cruel and mocking sound that echoed loudly in the sterile room.
"He is the new king of the city, little girl," Elena taunted.
Suddenly, Elena managed to kick her bound legs upward, knocking a scalpel off the adjacent tray.
She caught the blade in her hand and lunged wildly at Clara's stomach.
Titan did not even bark a warning.
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The giant mastiff lunged forward and clamped his massive jaws directly onto Elena's throat.
The crunch of bone was sickeningly loud, silencing Elena's mocking laughter forever.
