Panicked I look for Massimo and see he’s shooting back from behind the pillar near where he stood. He’s covering himself as best as possible but he’s in the open. The pillar isn’t wide enough. it’s not going to be enough to shield him from all those bullets. Franco is shooting from the ground.
Lucca and Viktor got hit. They’re on the ground with bullets all over their bodies. Dead. They’re dead. This is shit, more shit we never saw coming. There’s never been an attack on the company like this before. How the fuck did this happen?
Aiden is behind the desk with the overhead projector shielding himself the way we are.
Franko rushes to Massimo but both are too exposed. Franco gets hit and that’s when I know I have to do something or I’ll lose another brother today.
I turn to Dominic who looks as freaked out as I do. “Don’t you dare move. You fucking hear me?” I tell him and I thank God when he nods.
I look back to the shooter. I have just one shot but I have to get in the right position to take it, and quick.
On three I run out and fire one lone bullet that gets him in his head and he falls from the helicopter.
I continue shooting hitting the pilot as he tries to get away and the helicopter spirals out of control. It flies off at first then comes down hard over in the park, crash landing with a loud explosion that shakes everything like an earthquake.
A hollow takes residence inside me as I watch the flames go up and the people around scramble for protection.
This was planned. Someone knew we’d be here.
I turn around returning my focus to those in the room both the living and the dead.
A rush of sadness washes over me as I focus on Aiden holding Viktor’s lifeless body. Tears stream down his cheeks. Tears he tries to hold back but they flow from the pain of loss. They force through until he caves and breaks down.
I see Viktor’s face and grit my teeth. He was a good guy, one I felt I could trust. He loved his father the way we loved ours. In our world it’s not often to get supportive fathers who love their sons the way ours did.
The work he and Aiden did helped us to find out the extra information we needed to have about Mortimer.
Clearly this is him. This is his doing. Trying to kill us again and launch an attack on what remains of the Syndicate.
Massimo…
Dominic is with him. Both look to me with worry in their eyes.
This was planned because of who was here. The people who were about to reform the Syndicate. That was a plan to kill all of us, me included.
The three remaining D’Agostino brothers, the Romanov brothers, and the two remaining brothers of the Mazzone family.
Franco and Lucca Mazzone are both dead.
I was right. they weren’t guilty. They weren’t traitors. Not the ones we’re after.
They weren’t part of the secret plot, and not the kruv’ omerta’.
So who was it?