50 When Someone Dares To Defy Him

Will surveyed his underlings as they stood in a loose circle that took up most of the room. Most of them were trembling slightly under the intensity of his gaze. Lenny and his cronies seemed particularly uneasy.

Good. They were about to become an example to everyone else of what happens when someone dares to defy him.

"I'm sure many of you are wondering what brought me all the way back to L.A. after I left to expand our business elsewhere," he said evenly.

Nods and murmurs went around the circle from the people who hadn't been involved in the trafficking plan. They were speculating what possible reason Mr. Gold would have to come back to the place he had said he was done with. Roberto had been in charge of operations here for over a year now.