Dante sat down.
"Your brother Salvatore was murdered three weeks ago by Dimitri Valentino," Nico continued without preamble. "In that same time frame, we've accelerated our timeline for the viral release. The field test is now scheduled for ten days from now, not thirty. We've compressed everything because Dimitri Valentino is moving against us."
"How do you know that?" Dante asked.
"Because we have people inside his organization. And those people are telling us that Dimitri has discovered our bioweapon program. That he's planning to infiltrate our facilities. That he's planning to stop us." Nico leaned forward. "Which means we need to move faster. And we need to use every asset available to us."
"And what asset am I supposed to be?"
