Mafia's Forced Bride

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. Invited to fill her place for all except the almost unbreakable spirit, any other person would have bowed t

troubled, yet palpable in his hesitancy. He hadn't been coy ab

oss, he said, under his brea

slicing through his words. "You're underesti

didn't matter. I didn't feel like sitting down and exp

every corner of her quarters. I'd like to know everything-what time

responding. "Un

herine's previous scream still ringing in my head. It wasn't fear

key and sat down in the chair. My desk was filed with

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phone, no apparent reason for their visit. Just lying there, like she'd fallen from the s

r not, she was a liability. She was either just a coincidental perturbation, at the

she couldn't

h the intercom. "Cameras are instal

guzzled down the whis

ust sat staring. Still, quiet

. Katherine hadn't tried anything overnight, but her restlessness was e

mind, Katherin

y attention. Lex entered, hi

hey're panicking, scrambling to clean up afte

he Italians were annoying,

hing

he reported, his tone even grimmer. "They're sniffing

ssed a thing. If Katherine was connected to

d that makes them inquisitive but not a reason to take them

screen while watching Katherine clamber about the edge of the bed wit

n't have affecte

tside her door. Without a sec

mazement and quiet inquisitiveness. For a split second, we just looked

at escaping, I said,

ossed her arms across her chest.

t. "Luck won't help yo

aver, defiance bu

osing the distance between us. "D

lash of terror pass down the lines of her face. Because

because we've spoken to each other a couple of times before. Let me give you some

or me," she answere

her, in order to observe the tiny particles of gold i

een us filled with the sound of tension. Then

ile they last," I said. "They

ertainty episode intertwined. She was a riddle,

ing or my greatest victory. One w