The Underboss's Secret: Ten Years Of Obsession

Chapter 2

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he turned her head to look at me, her m

had just moved his entire base of operations to the indust

physical impact,

d indifference and gave a slow, measured nod,

of the café, a s

ked glass windows as they climbe

to the gray afternoon and was

me in the p

f my coat, but the chill did little to touch the

eeling paint sticking to the frame, the familiar

sofa, his boots propped up on the coffee t

a low-level parasite who sustaine

light entered Leo's ey

r girlfriend had accepted his proposal of marriage

llars-a buy-in to secure his

rged from the cramped kitchen, her eye

sum would be found, n

xpression hardening into a ma

n with the syndicate matchmaker wen

g sting exploded across my cheek, my head sna

, ordering me to accept the for

ining that the old man was offering a substantial price for

ckening cold w

oice a tremor as I asked if I was nothing more than a

her tone as cold and flat as a coroner's

o a decade past, to a dark night

s collateral, a bargaining chip to settle

then, sobbing on

Dante ha

inferno. His knuckles were split and raw from a fight I hadn't witnessed, and his shirt was missing a cufflink I would not find until years later. He invoked the law to prove Leo had acted in self-defense, clea

rother now, and a terrible

he predators outside my home, but he could neve

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The Underboss's Secret: Ten Years Of Obsession

Big Kahuna Mafia

“I spent my life working the syndicate sweatshops just to keep my family afloat. But my mother and brother still treated me like a disposable asset. To pay off my brother's gang debt, my mother tried to force me into an arranged marriage with a violent, widowed Capo. "If you don't do this, your brother is a dead man. You owe us this." When I refused, she slapped me across the face and leased my bedroom to a syndicate associate, leaving me completely homeless in the pouring rain. With nowhere to go, my thoughts drifted to Dante, the ruthless future Don who saved me from a fire ten years ago. I had loved him in secret for a decade, but I chose a vow of silence because my childhood best friend, Elena, claimed him as hers. I had watched her cling to his side through a decade of bloodshed, stepping into the shadows so they could rule. I thought I was nothing but a worthless pawn, abandoned by my blood and invisible to the only man I ever loved. So I packed my battered duffel bag, accepted a dangerous transfer to a hostile casino territory, and vowed to never return to New York. I chose to build my own empire and live for myself. But what I didn't know was that the moment I disappeared, the cold-blooded Underboss went completely feral. He kicked down my old apartment door, left my toxic family cowering in the hallway, and mobilized an entire death squad just to bring me back.”