Chapter 29
Author: fizzy
last update2025-06-12 00:24:28

Word of the restaurant incident traveled faster than wildfire.

By morning, the news had filtered through the marble corridors of the city's elite. Shared in whispers at golf courses, murmured at private dinners, and dissected in encrypted group chats that never mentioned names outright but always knew precisely whom they were discussing.

Diego Rivera had been humiliated

Not just bruised or threatened but publicly dismantled by a man no one recognized, and that made it was.

To the uninitiated, it wasn't just a brawl between young men with too much pride. But Rhod,e who understood the game, the ones who dealt in blood-stained money and silent power.

At the Rivera estate, chaos reigned behind the wrought iron gates and rose gardens.

Don Antonio Rivera, the Mafia Boss of the East, was livid.

His face, usually unreadable, was twisted with fury as he paced the sitting room of his private villa. Servants were dismissed. Bodyguards stationed at every exit. His son, bruised and hunched o
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