Page 65 of Demanding Mob Boss

I dial Anna's number. She doesn't answer.

I text her.

Me:Answer your phone.

After several more unanswered rings, I text again.

Me:Now, Anna.

I call again, but it goes directly to voicemail. Arlo picks up on the first ring.

"Go to Anna's apartment. She's not answering the phone."

"I'll try, Boss, but her roommate wouldn't let me in last time."

"Then how you do you know she's there?"

"The roommate told me. Said Anna wasn't feeling great and was lying down."

Anna was sick? Or upset? Fuck. What happened when she was working in Jimmy's office?

A text comes through from Connor. Lachlan has returned and has Stavros with him. I'll have to call Jimmy later.

"Do not let her leave the building tomorrow morning without one of you," I say to Arlo and then disconnect the call before he answers with his usual,yes, boss.

He'll do what I ordered. I don't need to hear the confirmation. There's a reason he's on Anna's protection detail.

I text Connor and tell him to send Lachlan and Stavros into my office.

The meeting with Stavros goes as I expect. He's pissed at the gang because they're trying to get protection money from his restaurants. The fucking arrogance. The Greeks don't even pay us protection money. Stavros's family isn't as big as the Doyle & Byrne mob, but they're not some pissant gang upstart either.

And they operate under the auspices of Leandros Drakos, The Godfather of the Night. He lives in Chicago in the Murphy territory, but he controls about a third of the Greek mafia in the US and Canada. Does the Gutierrez Cartel have any idea who they are dealing with?

We can and will take them down, but our allies increase our numbers tenfold.

Stavros wants the Kicks Bandidos obliterated.

"They're the front gang for the Gutierrez Cartel," I tell him. "We take them out first, but I'm not stopping there."

I'm burning that fucking cartel to the ground.

Stavros narrows his eyes. "We need to loop Drakos in on this. It is bigger than our territories."

"Agreed."

I wait while Stavros makes the call. He hangs up and tells me, "Drakos wants to meet with you tomorrow."

"I'll arrange it with Xander Christakos," Lachlan says, naming the Godfather of the Night's second in command.

Even though Drakos is the one that wants the meeting, protocols have to be followed, so I incline my head in agreement.

"Things are going to get messy, Cian," Lachlan says after seeing Stavros out.

"They already are."

I'm not surprised to see Ronan in the doorway to my office. He would have Lachlan's position as my second except he insists on running the escort service and ourhouses.

I pull Connor in, and the four of us talk strategy while he takes notes. "Carmen's intel about her cousin here in Chicago is sketchy because Martina didn't share shit with her, but she knows a hell of a lot about the cartel in Colombia that her uncle and his lieutenants have no idea they've revealed to her."

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