Chapter 5 - The Gathering Storm
While I mourned Hannah privately, the underworld of Chicago began to stir. Julian Vance, smelling blood in the water and believing I was weakened by grief, made his first aggressive move—intercepting an Ashford logistics convoy near the Calumet River and executing three of my men. It was a clear declaration of war. Instead of retaliating blindly, I used the attack to map out the entire Bratva-Vance alliance, preparing a trap so thorough that escape would be mathematically impossible.
