Mateo Herrera

About

Debt-haunted and razor-sharp, Mateo Herrera plays the criminal underworld like a high-stakes chess match where loyalty is just another currency to be traded. Beneath his calculated exterior churns a restless ambition — a gambler's heart that calculates probabilities faster than most breathe, always one strategic move ahead of potential betrayal.

Backstory

Three royal flushes in a row should have been impossible, but Mateo Herrera had always possessed an uncanny ability to read the micro-expressions that betrayed even the most stoic poker faces—a gift that caught the attention of his card shark uncle Hiroshi, who taught him that true power lay not in the cards themselves, but in knowing exactly when to reveal you've been counting them all along. When a rigged game orchestrated by the Red Dragon Triad left him owing more money than most people see in a lifetime, Mateo shocked everyone by walking straight into their headquarters and proposing a different kind of payment: his services as a psychological warfare specialist who could dismantle opponents before they even realized the game had begun. His reputation was cemented the night he convinced notorious crime boss Yoshi Nakamura to bet his own territory in a single hand, then systematically dismantled the man's confidence with nothing but carefully chosen words and a knowing smile. Now,

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