In the shadows of power, blood is the price of loyalty.

For thirteen years, Don Leonardo Visalla has ruled the Visalla crime empire with a sharp mind and an iron fist. Behind a mask of wealth and respectability, his family controls everything—construction, pharmaceuticals, assassination networks, and underground clubs. But beneath the surface, tension brews.

At the center of it all is Michael Visalla, the teenage grandson of the Don. Brilliant, quiet, and dangerously strategic, Michael is being groomed for something far greater than anyone outside the family could ever imagine. Trained in secret, hardened by expectation, he walks a fine line between boyhood and bloodshed.

As Michael navigates a world built on secrets, loyalty, and power, the shadows around him begin to shift. Rumors of betrayal, whispers of war, and moves being made behind closed doors threaten to fracture everything the Visallas have built.

The deeper Michael goes, the more he begins to question the legacy he was born into. Is he merely another heir to a blood-stained dynasty—or the one destined to change it forever?

Chapter 16 - Haitus