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Chapter Eighteen
Nick
Fucking two weeks…
It’s taken a whole two weeks to get an address for Snade.
We’re standing outside his mansion.
It looks like he’s brought the emperor’s palace to Chicago.
The place is off grid and situated on the outskirts of the city. A little like my home, but hidden to the outside world with the Historical Society Museum set up at the front section of the grounds.
Snade lives a mile away.
The place screams of wealth… and danger.
Being a Giordano gives me that fucking ability to smell danger. My brothers can sense it too.
They’re here with me, along with six of the guys who roll with us as backup. I have them mostly work at the club as security because we’re there the most. Today they’re with us and each of us has a piece, ready for trouble.
Rest assured there will be trouble.
Snade knows we’re here. I had to make an appointment with him.
We got here fifteen minutes ago and were ushered into the courtyard by a butler who looks like he was pulled from the set of a Bond film. Like one of the villains. A little like us, except he answers the door.
That’s when I smell the first sign of trouble.
Although we’re here and I made this appointment, I know Snade knows we’ve been looking for him for the last two weeks. It’s not hard to know these things. To look for someone you have to ask around, you have to look around. Finding him took more than Jo and his hacking abilities. It meant going back on the streets.
A Giordano pack looking around for a member of The Triad is big news and he’s not stupid. He must know why we’re looking and why we’re here.
We go further into the courtyard, following the butler and see Snade sitting at a large conference style table at the end of the garden. Around the table are three women and ten men. The women sit next to him. I’ve been told he keeps concubines. They’re all dressed in traditional Chinese wear and when they see us they move to go inside the house.
Snade smiles when his eyes land on mine and I can’t help but fixate on the nasty scar he has going over the center of his face that’s taken out his left eye. All that’s there is a mark over his eye and the eye is gray and lifeless.
He looks like a nightmare and more nightmarish when he smiles wider.
“Fuck…” Gabe hisses next to me under his breath.
I really should value my brothers more. Neither of them wanted to be here.
They’ve had this thing about them right from childhood though, where they see me as their kid brother and won’t allow me to walk into danger, no matter how badass I think I am. They won’t allow it. They’ll put their lives on the line for me, and me for them. They just do it more for me because I tend to get in trouble a lot.
Fuck, today is one of those days. It fucking is, because the look on Snade’s face is like a spider who just caught a bug.
Predator and prey.
And we’re in his playground.
“Well, well, look at this… not one,” Snade holds up one finger, “but three Giordanos in my presence,” he laughs and rises to his feet.
“We’re here for information,” I declare. I want to cut the fucking bullshit and get the info I came here for. That’s what I want to do. Cut the shit.
He smirks. “Thank you for clarifying. There I was thinking you came for some jasmine tea.”
His men rise and I gear up.
