Chapter 14 - The Shadow War
The massive, terrifying fallout from the bloody shipyard ambush completely paralyzed the entire criminal underworld of Baltimore.
The Santiago Cartel began aggressively launching highly coordinated, violent attacks on all of our legitimate legitimate businesses.
They violently firebombed three of our massive shipping warehouses and aggressively hijacked our heavily guarded supply trucks.
We were entirely locked inside the heavily fortified compound, running the massive, violent war from the underground bunker.
I barely slept a single hour a night, aggressively studying complex logistical maps and analyzing Isabella's highly predictable attack patterns.
I brutally ordered our elite hackers to completely drain the cartel's hidden offshore cryptocurrency accounts without a single trace.
Alessandro watched my ruthless, highly strategic commands with a mixture of immense pride and burning, intense desire.
"You are completely dismantling her entire financial empire from a laptop," he whispered proudly, kissing the side of my head.
"She foolishly thought a grieving widow would blindly cower in fear," I replied coldly, never taking my eyes off the screen.
"I am aggressively going to make her absolutely regret the day she ever learned my dead husband's name."
The massive financial bleed finally made Isabella desperate, erratic, and incredibly prone to making fatal tactical mistakes.
She aggressively ordered a heavily armed hit squad to boldly attack Logan's highly secure, private preschool in broad daylight.
The cartel mercenaries absolutely never even made it within three miles of the expensive, heavily fortified school building.
Enzo and his elite, heavily armed operators violently intercepted their vans on the highway, completely annihilating the entire threat.
When Alessandro informed me of the failed, pathetic attack on my innocent son, something deep inside my soul permanently snapped.
I stood up violently from the tactical table, completely knocking my expensive chair heavily onto the bunker floor.
"I am entirely done playing defensive, strategic games with this miserable, cowardly woman," I stated with absolute, terrifying venom.
"I want the exact coordinates of her heavily fortified safe house by midnight tonight, or I will find it myself."
Alessandro's dark, lethal eyes gleamed with absolute, unfiltered adoration for the dangerous monster I had perfectly become.
He immediately barked brutal, uncompromising orders to his sprawling network of terrifying street informants.
Within exactly three hours, we had the heavily encrypted address of Isabella's luxurious, private waterfront mansion.
She was cowardly hiding behind high concrete walls and dozens of heavily armed, desperate mercenaries.
I calmly strapped my heavy Kevlar vest completely over my chest and aggressively loaded three extra magazines into my holster.
Alessandro gently grabbed my wrist, pulling me incredibly flush against his massive, muscular chest in the dark armory.
"You stay entirely behind me during the heavy breach, Catherine," he commanded softly, his voice thick with raw emotion.
"We are going to violently end this miserable war together, side by side," I promised, kissing him deeply and passionately.
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The heavy, armored doors of the massive bunker slowly opened, revealing the dark, absolutely terrifying night above.
The undisputed king and queen of Baltimore were finally going out to aggressively collect a permanent, bloody debt.
