Chapter 12 - The Calloway Family’s Betrayal Unveiled
Inside the opulent boardroom of the Calloway estate in downtown Chicago,
Savannah Calloway slammed her fist against the polished mahogany table with blinding fury.
“What do you mean,
they escaped the mountain safehouse?” she shrieked at the bruised enforcer standing nervously before her.
“We had them cornered in that antiques shop,
Miss Calloway,
” the man stammered,
his face pale with raw fear.
“Declan Voss was there himself.
He tore through our strike team like a ghost in the dark.
He got the girl out through the back alley before we could secure the perimeter.
” Savannah’s face twisted into an ugly mask of pure jealousy and murderous rage.
She had spent years positioning herself to become the queen of the Chicago underworld,
orchestrating her father’s political alliances and manipulating every syndicate boss in the city.
She had endured Declan’s icy indifference,
believing that once they were married,
she could break him and rule beside him as an equal.
Instead,
Declan had used her public engagement as a smokescreen to flush out her father’s network,
while dropping everything to rescue a common restoration artist and her unborn child.
“My father is mobilizing every crew we have left in the city,
” Savannah hissed,
her eyes narrowing dangerously into slits.
“If Declan thinks he can humiliate my family and walk away with that nobody,
he is catastrophically mistaken.
Track their satellite signals.
Find out where that mountain lodge is located.
We’re going to burn them out,
root and branch,
until nothing is left.
” Inside the opulent boardroom of the Calloway estate in downtown Chicago,
Savannah Calloway slammed her fist against the polished mahogany table with blinding fury.
“What do you mean,
they escaped the mountain safehouse?” she shrieked at the bruised enforcer standing nervously before her.
“We had them cornered in that antiques shop,
Miss Calloway,
” the man stammered,
his face pale with raw fear.
“Declan Voss was there himself.
He tore through our strike team like a ghost in the dark.
He got the girl out through the back alley before we could secure the perimeter.
” Savannah’s face twisted into an ugly mask of pure jealousy and murderous rage.
She had spent years positioning herself to become the queen of the Chicago underworld,
orchestrating her father’s political alliances and manipulating every syndicate boss in the city.
She had endured Declan’s icy indifference,
believing that once they were married,
she could break him and rule beside him as an equal.
Instead,
Declan had used her public engagement as a smokescreen to flush out her father’s network,
while dropping everything to rescue a common restoration artist and her unborn child.
“My father is mobilizing every crew we have left in the city,
” Savannah hissed,
her eyes narrowing dangerously into slits.
“If Declan thinks he can humiliate my family and walk away with that nobody,
he is catastrophically mistaken.
Track their satellite signals.
Find out where that mountain lodge is located.
We’re going to burn them out,
root and branch,
May you like
until nothing is left.
”
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