Chapter 1398

Jeffrey muttered, "A shame. She was promising."

Pulling a blanket over Debra's face, he turned to Juan. "The four families will retaliate now that she's dead. Clean this up."

"How?"

"Burn her. Suppress the news of her death. Let no word leak tonight."

Without hesitation, Juan strode to the bedside, flicked open a lighter, and set the curtains ablaze. Flames crawled hungrily across the sheets, engulfing the figure beneath the blanket. Only when fire fully consumed the body did Jeffrey nod and exit.

At dawn the next day, Melody's funeral procession began.

coffin through the mist-shrouded gates.

first gunshot tore through a pallbearer's chest

Marion Houston!" someone

from the fog, his forces fanning out behind him. Bullets rained down as the remaining bearers collapsed. The Nichols

men poured

might have the- number, but they had enough ammunition. Marion could come

at

going down," Jeffrey

forward through the hail of bullets

snapped up instantly. The shot grazed Jeffrey's

remarked,

she?" Marion

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