“Heya, darling! Looks like you’ve gotten yourself caught in a tricky snare. Getting out won’t be easy,” he greeted me.
This guy was a notorious hacker in the business—no one had ever tracked him down or figured out his background. He always hid behind a silly mask, and having his contact was pure luck. Although he looked quite untrustworthy, he would never turn on a client and risk a bad reputation.
“What’ve you got for me, Fox?”
“Everything, darling. Everything, for the right price.”
I frowned. I couldn’t see his face, but I knew he had a smug smile behind that mask.
“I’m in a bind here, Fox. Name your price later. Spill.”
“I’ll hold you to that, hun!” His tone shifted, and he immediately shared a file on the screen.
The anger I hadn’t felt last night erupted with the force of a supernova as I looked at the information.
“Someone in the Russo family played you like a fiddle,” Fox began, his tone serious. “That busted Russian deal five years ago wasn’t the end of it. Salvatori has been sabotaging Russo operations from the shadows ever since the Viridian bloodshed.”
“How the hell did I miss all this?” I was in disbelief. Massive operations were happening right under my nose, and I hadn’t caught a whiff of it.
“You would’ve noticed if you hadn’t locked yourself away in Ravensgate.”
I slammed my hand on the table, frustration boiling over. “There’s no way the Russos would take that quietly. Why didn’t they raise hell?”
Fox chuckled, opening another folder. “Oh, they did. Someone’s been busy sweeping everything under the rug.”
“You’ve got to be kidding me,” I muttered, dumbfounded.
The folder was filled with investigation files dating back six years ago—secret transactions, unauthorized psyops, records of Russo’s deals getting compromised, and countless attacks on their businesses. And all of it was being traced back to me.
I was starting to think I was the idiot and not Dominic.
There was only one person who could’ve hidden something this big from me, and I was boiling with rage just thinking about making him pay.
“Don’t get too worked up yet. We’re just getting to the best part.”
He showed me another file, this one detailing Talia’s activities over the past five years. Subtle, but there were clear signs of her involvement in each incident linked to Salvatori. Not only that, but the missing Salvatori funds were being funneled straight into her pockets.
“That swine bitch!”