Bill's POV
The event that pushed Louis into full brutality didn't begin with violence.
It began with betrayal, a quiet unexpected one.
The traitor was someone old—one of the last men his father had trusted who Louis had spared. A strategist. Polite. Soft-spoken. The kind of man people underestimated because he smiled too easily.
He sold information to a rival syndicate. Routes. Security codes. Names.
Including Charles'.
By the time we discovered it, three minor safe houses were already burned to the ground. Bodies still warm. Survivors barely alive .
Louis listened to the full report without interruption, Michael was oddly cheerful reading It
Louis showed no anger,no shock and no reaction at all.
When the room fell silent, he simply said, "Bring him to me."
They did.
The traitor was dragged into the execution chamber before dawn. Shackled. Bloody. Still trying to bargain. Still trying to pretend this was fixable.
