inside the factory. Their men follow and we wait for the last man to go in.
“Let’s move,” Vincent commands then all hell breaks loose.
Claudius and his men go in first, guns at the ready. We move next, rushing in.
I’m supposed to cover Vincent and Salvatore.
As soon as we get in its bullets everywhere. We already scouted out the place so we know how many men Falcone has here.
It’s one big shoot out for a good few minutes. Every now and again our snipers manage to take out some of the guys, knocking down the enemy number.
This surprise ambush couldn’t have been a better idea. It takes minutes to get them down to less than half.
Claudius and his guys have already secured the case with the guns and are moving out with them. While Falcone’s men fight with everything they have it’s a losing battle.
The sound of a loud crash turns my attention to the direction the sound came. That’s when I see Falcone and Officer Tanner trying to make their escape through the back entrance. They’re both in a pickup ramming it into the door.
It smashes open and they drive through.
“No fucking way,” I shout and Vincent sees them too.
The two of us take off lightning fast, heading for our bikes. We jump on them and breeze down the path into the woods following the pickup. Salvatore is behind us.
I ride a mean bike and I can get by in the dense woodland area in the night just as well as I can on the road during the daylight.
Like speed demons we catch up with them but fuck, Officer Tanner sticks his head out the window and starts shooting at us.
I have to jump my bike and swerve to dodge the bullets. Vincent has to divert but he speeds back and starts shooting too.
A plan forms in my mind. If I can shoot the tires on the pickup that would get them good. They’ll be forced to stop and crash. I’m not letting them get away. I steady one hand on the bike and grab my gun from the holster. Tanner shoots at Vincent.
I focus and aim, fire one shot and it gets the back wheel. The pickup jerks and Tanner is thrown back into the vehicle. Vincent shoots the other side of the vehicle and gets the other tire.
It’s enough. The pickup was going so fast that the sudden blast to the wheels makes it flip over twice.
The strength in which it goes down makes me think they both must be dead. They aren’t though.
I leap my bike over a dead tree trunk as I round in closer. Tanner is injured but the fucker is alive and crawling out from the window of his side of the pickup. The fucker starts firing at me. It must be the cop syndrome. I’m pretty sure that anybody else would have run to at least try and save themselves. Not this guy. He wants to be a hero when it’s him who stole from us.
I dodge the bullets he sends my way. one nearly got me though. I aim at him. I just need one shot. I take it and it goes in his head.
He drops to the ground at the same time I hear another shot echo through the night and realize that’s Vincent.
As I round back I see he got Falcone.
We got them. The two of them are dead, dead, dead.
It’s over.
I’ve been so stressed over the whole situation that I can’t believe I don’t have to worry about it anymore.
The guns were taken back to the warehouse to get the shipment underway, Angelo was contacted and faith restored. All is well.
Vincent insisted on calling a meeting first thing in the morning, though. And it wasn’t any old meeting. It was a call to the heads of each family in the Giordano famiglia , and those with any responsibility in the business.
That meant Pa, me, and Georgiou in a room again, along with my two other uncles and the brothers from Vincent’s side.
This is the first meeting we’ve had like this with everyone here since Vincent’s father made him boss.
We’re all here at the boardroom of Giordanos Inc.
Vincent is at the head of the table and his brothers sit to his right in order of rank. Salvatore as underboss and consigliere, Gabe as first capo, then Nick as the second. After Nick is Pa and my two uncles curve the table. Georgiou is next to Vincent on his left, then