Page 142 of Mafia Kings: Dario

They repeated the process. Once it was over and the hinges were destroyed, the thugs used a crowbar to pry off the door. Five strong men caught the massive slab of metal and lowered it to the ground.

“Let us continue,” the Turk said, and we walked through the doorway into the darkness.

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As we continued down the stone tunnel, it felt like I was in a horror movie.

The thugs’ flashlight beams barely lit our way…

The Turk’s gun pressed into the back of my head…

And every step brought me closer to betraying the man I loved.

His death – and his brothers’ deaths – would be all my fault.

We finally reached the servants’ passageway.

From there, it was just 20 paces to the secret door near the chapel.

Once we were in the hallway, the thugs formed a protective circle with me and the Turk at the center. Their footsteps tapped lightly on the tiled floors as they moved through the dark house.

Then we reached the grand staircase in the foyer.

“Go,” the Turk whispered.

Six men went up the stairs, pistols at the ready.

I realized that there was one gunman for each brother –

Adriano, Massimo, Roberto, Niccolo, Valentino…

…and Dario.

As I stood there with tears streaming down my face, I wanted to scream and warn them – but it wouldn’t have done any good.

The tape over my mouth would have muffled any sound I made – and there were still six thugs around me and the Turk. Any one of them would kill me if I made the slightest sound.

I just prayed that one of the brothers would hear the assassins and alert the others…

…before it was too late.

“In just a moment,” the Turk whispered in my ear, “all six Rosolinis will be dead, and their empire will be – ”

He never finished the sentence because gunshots cut him off.

I could see the muzzle flashes in the dark all around us.

BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG!

I shrieked under the tape on my mouth, sure that I would die –

But it was the Turk’s men who dropped to the ground dead.

“WHAT?!” the Turk roared.

He pulled me up against him as a human shield and pressed his gun to my right temple.

Three men dressed in black came out of the darkness, their pistols pointed right at us.

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