Healed By Another: Rejecting The Ruthless Don

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the medication

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to leave him, his new wife staged

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s and dragged me behind a helicopter ac

y skin was flayed and my bones shattere

the dirt, convinced he

threw at me and vanished, letting

New York as "Echo," the elusive a

lars for a painting of a woman's scarred back, desperat

ng for a second chance, swearing

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had been ready to surprise the D

e with the truth: the medication I had swallow

script. And the author

a professional sort of pity before slip

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as I boarded the

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y father's fresh grave to keep me safe had l

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rble, taking a bullet meant for the King. He was the man who had wipe

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and went straigh

a place where the city's darkest deals were sealed o

d shocked to see the ghost of the Don

anary he was nursi

veryone

g like a shadow into the service e

through the soles of my shoes,

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sofa, looking like a god of

held a glass of amber liquid, his eyes scanning the ro

just loo

ded him, laughing

of them said, leaning in. "The Go

a slow sip

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fr

ped in a throat suddenl

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glass, looking bored. "But her father's distribution routes

ract

. I wasn't the daughter

a loos

" the Capo asked. "

of emotion. "She thinks she needs the clinic. As long as s

ami

my purse felt

e question my own mind, made me believe I was broken, just so he

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like polished river stones. She didn

lted Chanel bag and pull

, a peace offering th

she said, her voice barely a whisper over the

at the

My voice sounded foreig

Consider it severance pay. Go back to Europe.

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wanted their

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paper until it crinkled in my fist.