90. STRENGTH OF A BEAUFORTE

CALLAN DID NOT SEND any updates and I was left without any notice. I woke up to an empty space beside me on the bed. With everything that happened for the past days and after learning that Don Thoron had been captured by the Cato clan and had been tortured by the men in their camp in town, I knew Callan was deeply affected by it. I saw it in his eyes before he left.

The unwatchable footage sent to us was brutal. But Uncle Mariano said that Don Thoron particularly said not to risk the remaining troops to save him because Callan still has to be protected when he returns.

If nothing is heard about him for three days straight, Callan shall immediately become the new mafia boss of the ravij family.

Callan didn’t say anything, but he balled his fists and he was greeting his teeth. No one could talk to him other than me.

Their mafia boss had been captured, tutored, and maybe already dead at this point.

Preventing the urge to cry from the sinking feeling in my stomach, I got up in bed and gra