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The Underboss's Secret: Ten Years Of Obsession

Chapter 4

Word Count: 797 | Released on: Today at 21:19

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of a glass coffee table pressi

he nature of hi

urious at my disre

and I began to stammer, the words

station, that I had no pl

no business intruding upon the li

his voice sharp as

mask of terri

road chest a wall of dar

my excuses were of

n for one reason only: Elena had requ

d acidic, burned th

eting, secret hope that my abs

gathered my equipment, and

mera a shield between myself and the world, staring at the

the safehouse, a profound exhau

split open, and a he

lack SUV pulled up to the curb, its headli

ped out in

d out a set of expensive designer lugga

ena climbed out of

face turned up to his, her voice a low mu

sted, a new and specific d

a lower-tier facility made no sense-until I saw the way her eyes cut toward me throu

der cracked overhead, a deafening boom th

untary shudder went through my shoulders,

n my direction at the

ned my face i

us to get indo

ache spread t

w about my ter

th his hands, a small, soli

ning first, her voice

iant smile and promi

an unwanted spectator to the in

returned to his SUV and drove off

the guards' offer of a luxury suite and insisted upon being quartered with

the darkness in the small room

cruel, unending murm

e, of the blood and violence they had nav

with a chilling note of pride, framing their s

t, to be hers. The absolute certainty in her voice made my stomach clench. She spoke not li

w cot, staring at the c

eticulous planning of a future wi

my chest, something I had guarded for a dec

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“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.”