My Mafia Mystery: The Barefoot Princess

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d Elijah say as he propped his fee

ophy," I grunted, stalking to the brandy de

his prosthetic leg before he swooped in and stole my brandy. I grunte

turned from my failed mission to rescue the werewolf princess. My wounds had been deep, cutting through my flesh as well as

teful to him for pulling me from the depression which had engulfed me.

f his stolen drink as he sank back onto the sofa. "Just tell the King that you were robbed

when it was so blatantly my fault," I grum

look on his face for a brief se

tablets again," he implored, his happy-go-luck

I grumbled as I sat down beside him and took a big mouthful of

en that doesn't work - it's one a night plus half a bottle of brandy. One day you wake up in a hospital

- hell, his own twin sister didn't even know that he had overdosed. But it had been the kick in the arse

looking out for me. He might have been younger than me by thre

a once off occurrence because my brain kept remembering how Milano reacted at the auc

as any links with the werewolf kingdom. As far as I have heard from you

his wisdom. "Yeah, you're rig

switched the subject so rapidly that I al

that I hadn't taken that blasted tablet. I would have at leas

k before he returned and sat on the coffee table. He wa

mber about her?" he sai

the cold glass to my forehead. "I don't remember m

she had left, and I wondered if every woman I had ever kissed ha

housand women here in Rome," Eli grunted with exa

took another sip of my brandy, only to choke on it w

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straight to the heart. Now I know what your victims

eyes at his

human teeth one time, and suddenly

people scarred by that incident. I'm pret

putation. It served me well, and I made sure that pe

he only way we will find out who this nymph is,

in the surveillance system w

ter," Eli grumbled, obviously not impressed abo

ituated in the corridor outside my room. We watched as the footage

ouldn't judge her size properly on the camera, but I was certain that she would be as small as I remembered. She

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