VEIL OF SHADOWS-In the Mafia's Web, Love Is the Deadliest Trap

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a scream caught

been made. Not out of t

ed Dante

d Mikhail Vetrova bef

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rill of danger. Men in suits stood like sentinels, women in glittering g

door guarded by two well-armed me

smile when

came

choice," she said

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her to sit. "Vet

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're on his board now, Aria.

let

mixture of amusement and

o feel what I felt the day I buried my

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do you

t. James. And in her place, we'll

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simply. "Like Vet

alist. Not a

he corrected. "Now you're

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on wasn't immedi

eillance. Psychological warfare. She learned how to read people by th

became a strange source of stability. The more she pushed herself, th

dtown, wearing a blood-red dress and holding a champagne glass.

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led through the ear

e the day he smiled a

aircase like a weapo

k too much, and, according to Dante, smuggled enough weapons into

a woman half his age. She approached with slow, confiden

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ce," he

led. "N

ntrigued. "Wha

it in one gulp, and leane

at her. "I like

us," she whisper

he led her to a pri

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to his throat ca

yes widened.

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. "You've got the wr

. I've finally bec