Bloodstained vows , In the mafia, love is just another contract to break.

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nto his ballroom, alive,

hrough the crowd. She had always been graceful, but now, there was

the soft-spoken

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no

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d behind him. "Or should I say

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spond. He alre

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his pockets. "She didn't come back without

ightened. He

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ted, razor-s

one carefully neutral. "If that's true, then she's no

out what she's been doing these past three y

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round the edge of the tabl

tasted l

s life, Luca wasn't sure if he s

stare burning into her back. Goo

ars for this moment, an

nother glass of champagne from his tray

early thrown off by the que

cou

. Luca had always controlled this world, but

a Mor

oice cut thr

r father's old associates. He was older now, his salt-and-pe

unreadable. "I didn't believe it when I he

d slightly. "Did th

impressed. Though I have to ask... why

heavier. Conversations

ks head-on. "Be

world long enough to recognize a shift

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spine at the deep

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nd unreadable. "What a lov

k. "What are y

gne, letting the silence stretch. "

hed. "Don't play

t fading. "Oh, I'm not playing, Mr.

hey both

ething she couldn't quite

hisper only he could hear. "Because unfinished bu

icked, his restraint cr

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winning

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, disappearing into the cro

his hands tightening i

side him. "She's

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was the