The Mafia King's Secret Heiress

led by the storm rolling through the city, but Valentina Cruz barely noticed. She tucked her soaked hoodie tighter around her and shoved her hands into he

er her breath. "One more we

age bag spilling onto the side

ained.

er eyes scanned the alley to her left, dark and

her

alled cautious

forward. Then another.

irt was soaked in blood, clinging to a muscular torso. A gash split across his abdomen, a

reathed, dart

ere. His eyes fluttered open for a moment, catching her in a hazy,

pered. "Hey-hey

espo

ay. This was New York. Men didn't end up bleeding

ouldn't w

ignal. Of course. She glanc

working at the diner near the docks-bar fights gone wrong, gang violence, drunks with

she whispered. "You're

but his body twitch

ss the alley. A black SUV slowed,

tina

ers-cold, calculating, unfamiliar. A suited man in the drive

heart hammering. Wh

ack at the b

spered, "but I think I just got mys

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o her apartment that night-don't ask how-and patched him up with stolen medical supplies from the b

n a tha

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stormy gray eyes that had burned into hers for that s

g about him

tomer," Maria, th

ned-and her h

race of blood on his smooth olive skin. His thick, dark hair was

was

wly, like he owned the p

the counter. "You've got

smoothly, his voice deep and

ssed her arms. "And t

nt business t

ss gets someone stabbed

t wasn't quite a smile. "The kind

ttered. "So, wh

ty-two. Lives in a fourth-floor walk-up on Fulton Street. No family. Works here six

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