He called Marco as he was heading to the elevator.
"I need the car ready," Dimitri said. "And I need you to pull together everything you can find about Dante Romano's current status. Medical records, movement logs, everything. I need to know if he's mobile again."
"Yes, boss," Marco said, understanding without needing explanation that something had happened.
By the time Dimitri reached the garage, the car was ready. By the time he was pulling out into the early morning traffic, his mind had already moved through the first dozen responses he could make to this attack.
He could hit Dante's operations in Rome. Could move money to retaliate. Could escalate the violence immediately and force a direct confrontation.
But that's what whoever was behind this would expect. That's what they were counting on, that he'd react emotionally instead of strategically.
Instead, Dimitri decided to do something different.
