Mr Scott The Mafia Boss

Elena's POV

I pushed the casino monopoly contract—a priceless document—across the mahogany table.

In exchange, the man I had bled for over the past five years tore the silver badge from my chest.

"Hand this operation over to my fiancée, or you won't leave this room." Gabriel Moretti didn't even look at me.

His gaze was locked onto the double doors at the end of the room, as if waiting for a highly important guest.

For five years, I was his right hand. It was my advice that helped him expand half of his territory; it was my hands that signed those agreements; it was my blood that was spilled on the floors of enemy warehouses, all so he could sit at the head of this table.

He had promised me that once the casino contract was signed, I would become the underboss.

Yet now, in front of twelve family capos, he was stripping me of my power.

The gap in the heavy mahogany doors gradually widened, and a pale fluorescent light from the hallway pierced through the smoke.

Gabriel stood up, the cold, hard lines of his face relaxing into a sickeningly flattering smile.

He crossed the room to welcome Serena Bianchi.

She was wearing a pure white silk gown. In this room filled with the heavy scent of cigar smoke, she looked incredibly out of place.

She clung tightly to Gabriel's arm, scanning the men gathered in the room.

Gabriel cleared his throat, his voice breaking the silence.

"I have decided to appoint Serena as the co-commander of the S-Class territory."

A heavy silence fell over the twelve family capos.

I maintained my expressionless demeanor, sitting exactly as I had been, but a chill crept into my heart, extinguishing the very last shred of my loyalty to him.

"Bringing an outsider into the inner circle violates family rules," I said in a low voice.

Serena flinched, burying her face into Gabriel's suit and letting out a small, dramatic gasp.

Gabriel slammed his hand onto the polished wooden table, his eyes locking onto me, the muscles at the corner of his eyes twitching from the force.

"I am the head of this family, Elena!" he snapped.

"My word is law, and you will not question me on my turf."