Chapter 1

My mother, Sofia Ricci, was once the Mafia Princess of the Ricci family.

Twenty-one years ago, during an attack targeting the Riccis, she died in an explosion—shielding four men she’d grown up with.

After her death, those four men raised me together.

Giulio Greco controlled the Greco conglomerate spanning all of Europe. Money and politicians were nothing more than bargaining chips to him.

Adriano Vitale controlled nearly thirty percent of Europe’s underground arms trade. His private military forces operated across multiple countries.

Elio Fiore was one of the world’s foremost surgeons, and also ran a private medical network that served only the elite and Mafia families.

As for Nicola Orsini—in Italy’s underworld, no one dared refuse him outright.I grew up drenched in the affection of these four men.