“Here!” my twin shouted from down the hallway. He was holding Mei-ling’s hand as they ran towards us.
“Where’s Bianca and Lucia?” Caterina cried out.
“We’re here!” Bianca shouted in a muffled voice.
Seconds later, they entered the hallway from an interior stairwell.
“What thefuckis going on?!” Lucia yelled.
“No time!” I shouted. “Find as many servants as you can and get them down to the tunnel,now!”
We raced through the center of the house and into the west wing.
Sofia, Caterina, Lucia, Bianca, and Mei-ling grabbed every servant they could and brought them along with us.
Roberto and Valentino ordered the foot soldiers we encountered to comb the upper floors and bring everyone they found to the tunnel.
I had something else I needed to do, though.
I called Dario.
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Dario
Inside the Hospital
As I stood there listening to Niccolo over Lars’s cell phone, a single thought kept echoing in my head:
This is impossible.
This is IMPOSSIBLE.
THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE.
“The women are grabbing servants,”Niccolo said.“Roberto and Valentino are organizing the foot soldiers, and we’re heading for the tunnel.”
“Where’s Rachel?” Lars asked anxiously.
“She went to the armory. She’ll meet us in the tunnel.”
“The attack – how bad is it?” I asked.
“It’s a catastrophe. The parlor is gone – ”
“What do you mean, ‘gone’?”
“I mean they blew it all to hell.”
“Who’s ‘they’?” Lars interjected.
“I don’t know. I doubt it’s the Camorra – it feels like a military strike.”
“The Wagner Group, maybe,” Lars muttered.
“Everybody’s getting revenge today,”Niccolo joked darkly.
“Niccolo – ” I began.
