Merciless Contract: The Syndicate's Unwanted Wife novel · Chapter 18 of 32
Chapter 18: Berth Nine
At a quarter to midnight on Friday, eleven Sandrelli captains lay behind the shipping containers at berth nine.
They had not been told why.
Raffaele had told them only that his wife had a map, and that she wanted them there.
Gemma crouched at the end of the row in a black coat, with a radio in her hand and her split lip healing.
Vittorio's captains kept looking at her.
"If this is a joke, girl," said the man with the scarred knuckles, "I'll go home."
"It's no joke."
"The Don said the Albertinis die tomorrow. Why are we out here with you tonight?"
"Because at midnight the Orsatti land on this pier," Gemma said. "They think it's undefended. I gave their spy the guard times myself."
"The times are false."
"Not for berth nine."
Raffaele crouched beside her, one hand pressed to his bandaged side.
He had refused the hospital and had not mentioned it since.
"Quiet," he said.
A low engine sounded on the water.
Three black boats slid out of the fog and came alongside the pier with their lights off.
Men in dark clothes came up the ladders, rifles slung, quietly confident.
There were thirty of them.
Gemma counted them one by one with a thumb on the radio.
"Now?" Raffaele asked.
"Wait for the heir."
The last boat came in slower than the rest.
A tall man in a coat with a gold chain at his throat stepped onto the pier, and behind him came a slim woman in a camel scarf with a bag on her shoulder.
Fiammetta.
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