Chapter 738

• Piers was hassled but his cool demeanour hid his worry and exasperation well. He had the same facade of being in control that he had inherited from his father, unlike his sibling Claude who was only unflappable when he was in the Ring.
• The older Delano was totally concentrating on the tasks at hand, the work he had taken over once he became the Don. Running an empire as large as his father’s was no mean task, and to make it go smoothly, he needed to have his wits about him. So, as he and his Capo sat through discussions with arms dealers, with the people who would be receiving the shipments and the other matters his Pappa had set up, he was cold and clinical, refusing to allow himself to think of his wife and whatever danger she might have exposed herself to. For one thing, he knew his lover; she was a trained assassin. And then, most importantly, the great Lucien Delano had proclaimed in no uncertain terms, that he was going to root for Hila Zaidi. That thought alone kept Piers sane.
• He knew the Mafia Don. Once he pitched in for someone, he would do it until the end.