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ancé, the most ruthless Mafia Capo, lock
r panic room to protect Bianca, the innocent
me with a crippled leg, years of disgust, and a push off a
reborn to the exact moment th
walk willingly into h
pte
ia
us. A low thrum vibrated up through the mahogany floorboards bef
on my wrist. He began to drag me toward a
on preceded him; a man whose hands were stained with the blood of thr
d pull me into that room, I would lose my legs
from a cliff for the woman who now
iron grip of a killer, or histo
foundations, and a fine dust of pla
a singular, s
ttlenecked at the reinforced steel door, t
le. She is the beautiful socialite of the underworld, the
id voice urging the men to take cover in the corner pan
hat room, my stomach twisting. The in
l integrity of that speci
eamed at the men to jump from the t
the splintered frames to the long drop, a
is entire being focu
ater, his voice from beside my hospital bed: "Do not think you can make me owe you agai
words escaped from somewhere buried-told me he didn't full
sensation of the long fall reced
toward the panic room, and this time, I wo
ill directing the panicked so
lic clang of their boots on the floor was a confirmationme from the cliff burned in
ouldering his way back through the crow
ng to drag me toward the ba
ng into the floorboards as I foug
irens that the panic
his eyes, dark and void of
ice a low rumble of iron scraping stone.
e, his breath hot
again," he muttered, the words slippin
't know why he said that, but something in his
ut a da
e heel of my shoe into his shin
o high; his grip on m
ower of muscle and fury. He glared
h?" he demanded. "That j
, the sound a splinte
nets and water below is a simpl
of his fury and shouted to the
the panic room loudly and clearly, my vo
e rest of the glass and take
, the chaotic room
. His jaw tightened, as if an invisible warning bell rang somewhere
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