Chaos exploded the moment Alessandro De Luca lunged at his cousin. Orsini reacted fast, slamming his fist into Nikolai, who had been closest. Nikolai’s gun fell to the ground immediately. Orsini picked it up fast, his hand steady as he spun and leveled the barrel at De Luca.
“You better shoot me now, cousin,” De Luca growled, his chest heaving with fury. “Because I swear to God, if I get my hands on you—I’ll end you!”
Orsini smirked coldly, his voice sharp as steel. “Let’s look at it this way, Alessandro. Yes, I hit your son. But you almost had Leonardo Gold defeated. You could have taken his title, his crown, his empire. Imagine it—you’d have been the most untouchable man in Italy. But no—you had to believe everything they told you.”
“So what if I hit Stefano? What would you do about i
