Heartbeats: Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty
If you had enough money, enough connections, and weren't afraid of breaking a few laws, it was easy to find... well, just about anything. If nothing else, Claudia had managed to learn the fine art of persuasion from her father. Though Anthony refused to train her as his rightful heir, there was the one aspect of his wisdom that he had managed to impart to his daughter: how to turn valuable information into useful tools in order to advance one's own motives or ambitions. It was how she had so quickly become second in command at Jacks Enterprises without ever setting foot inside a college classroom. And, now, her drive to dethrone her brother was about to pay off in dividends that not even she had anticipated.
It was amazing how incestuous the mob was. Allies, enemies, or neutrals, every don, every enforcer, every lowly gopher knew all the players in the business, and, eventually, all their paths crossed. Most of the time, though, this crossbreeding of organizations only occurred in secret. Leaving virtually no paper trails, they were difficult to uncover and even more difficult to understand if you just so happened to stumble upon them. Unfortunately, that was the case that Claudia found herself in; fortunately, no matter how she sliced the decadent dessert of possibilities, she'd still end up with one hell of a payoff when she got to have her cake and eat it, too.
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