Chapter 128

• Ellis Barker disembarked from the car provided by Kenji Ito, holding a black folder in her hands, ready to face the members of the Commission. Enrico Turin, Lorenzo Gerevini, Giovanni Cordopatri, Luigi Gallo, and Stefano Gattone were already waiting for her in the Commission building. Led into the meeting room, where everyone was gathered, she was met with serious and skeptical expressions.
• Luigi Gallo, with a stern expression, expressed his discontent: “Meetings of this kind are not the Commission's practice, especially for the ex-wife of a mafioso like Vittorio.”
• Ellis, maintaining her composure, replied: “I understand that this is an exception, courtesy of President Angelo Messina.”