Chapter 21 - ASHES TO EMPIRE
Lorenzo crossed the room in a second, falling to his knees and wrapping Evelyn in a crushing embrace. He buried his face in her neck, his broad shoulders shaking.
"I've got you," he whispered fiercely, kissing her bruised face. "I've got you. It's over."
Evelyn clung to him, inhaling the scent of smoke, blood, and his familiar cologne. "I knew you'd come. I never doubted it."
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With Volkov dead and his lieutenants wiped out by the night of vengeance, the Russian Bratva's incursion into Chicago collapsed entirely. The FBI, fed anonymous tips by Evelyn’s encrypted servers, raided the remnants of the Russian fronts and arrested Alderman Sterling on federal corruption charges. The Moretti syndicate emerged not only victorious but completely unchallenged.
The city realized that the new King and Queen were not soft; they were simply waiting for a reason to remind the world why they ruled.
