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The rain fell hard over Milan, washing blood into the gutters.
Thunder cracked above the skyline, echoing through the narrow alleys like the growl of a vengeful god. Neon lights bled into the slick pavement, but here, where shadows ruled, there was no mercy—only death.
A man knelt in the alley, his hands tied behind his back, his expensive suit torn and soaked. He sobbed against the gag stuffed in his mouth, his muffled cries drowned out by the storm. The smell of iron, smoke, and fear hung thick in the air.
Adrian DeLuca didn’t beg. He didn’t cry. He watched.
His dark eyes, cold as the steel pressed against his temple, studied every face in the circle of men surrounding him. He recognized them all—men who once toasted wine with his father at family tables, men who had kissed the DeLuca ring, swearing loyalty until their dying breath. Now, they dragged him into this alley, thinking tonight would be his end.
The capo leaned in close, cigar clamped between his teeth, his breath thick with bitterness. His fat fingers pressed the barrel harder against Adrian’s skull.
“You should’ve stayed in exile, ragazzo,” he sneered, spitting the word like poison. “Forgotten sons don’t get second chances.”
The gun cocked. The circle tightened.
But Adrian smiled.
It wasn’t the smile of a man facing death—it was the smile of a man who had already made peace with it long ago. The world thought the DeLuca heir had been buried with his disgraced name years ago. But exile hadn’t broken him. It had sharpened him. He was no longer the boy who fled Milan in chains of betrayal. He had become something else—something merciless.
The first shot rang out.
One man fell, clutching his throat as crimson sprayed across the alley walls. Not Adrian. Never Adrian.
Chaos erupted instantly. Screams tore through the storm. Muzzle flashes painted the night with bursts of fire. Adrian moved with a predator’s precision, slipping into the chaos like vengeance made flesh.
He lunged, grabbing the arm of the nearest soldier, twisting until bone cracked. The pistol clattered to the ground, and Adrian drove it upward into another man’s chest, pulling the trigger before the soldier could scream. Blood misted the air. Another body dropped.
Bullets whizzed past his head, tearing chunks from the crumbling brick walls. He ducked, rolled, and drove his blade—hidden until now—straight into a belly, ripping upward until the man collapsed, choking on his own entrails.
The alley became a slaughterhouse. Shouts of “Kill him!” dissolved into shrieks of agony as Adrian carved through them, his movements brutal but deliberate, honed by years of survival in places darker than this. By the time the storm calmed, the ground was slick with blood, the rain washing crimson rivulets into the gutter.
Adrian stood alone. His chest heaved, his hands dripped with the lives he had taken, but his eyes were steady—unyielding. Around him lay the corpses of men who believed the DeLuca name had died in disgrace.
He tilted his head back, letting the rain wash the blood from his face. His heartbeat was steady, unbroken, like a drumbeat of destiny.
Milan thought it was free of him.
The mafia thought they had erased him.
Even his enemies believed exile had buried him forever.
But they forgot one thing.
The son they cast into the shadows has returned. And this time, Adrian DeLuca has come not to forgive… but to claim everything.
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