ella
on my tongue, a vow made to a corpse
agged gasp. I blinked, my vision blurring. The hellish red neon light filtering through the window was exactly the same,
s brea
n the shadows, clawing my way through the underworld to destroy Damien Valenti, only to
lly settle, the flimsy mo
teeth, stepped in, followed by a hulking th
und my neck-the only thing of value I had left. I flinched, and Angelo let
grunted, stepping forward a
obbing helplessly as that blow accel
ers, surged through my veins. As the manager yanked the gold chain, I didn't pull back. I drove my elbow directly into his throat with
ngelo into my arms and bolted
olving locked into place. I knew Damien's empire would expand, and I knew exactly where its structural flaws were. I knew that my exile wasn't just Da
y secrets. But vengeance could wait.
en the heavy metal door of an o
e back of my throat. Dr. Rossi, a disgraced surgeon who patched up mobsters for exorbitant fees, looked up fr
sweeping over my soaked, ruined clothes and
reached for
rip on Angelo and met Rossi's eyes with the dead, cold st
espiratory Distress Syndrome. His lungs are filling with fluid. You need to perform an immediate thoracentesi
The Associate paused, his
tage, yet speaking with the absolute, chilling authority of a trauma surgeon. Curiosity
nd gestured to the metal table. "Put the b
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