Runaway Nurse: The Mafia King's Remorse
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the door averted their gaze, shif
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nte, honey, don't be so harsh. Maybe she just needs a d
to a bottle of whiskey
with the cruelty of a predator toying with its
at the am
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me a monster when the liquor took hold, a creature of rage and sorrow
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est. "You disrespected the Family, Elena. You dr
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table, my legs f
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ervice tray next to it. In a blur of motion,
my head back and slipped a handful of the yellow dust
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own my face, hot
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lass. It shattered, sending shards of
s voice was rough, like
d seized my wrist. "
y arm away
my veins with a reck
a. "Is she worth it? Does she know how to hold you when the nightmare
warned, a dangerou
ords tasting of bile and whiskey. "I
stumbled to
!" he
lway before my legs
er kicked in wit
body rejecting the poison
s of my vision, narrowing
arms lift me u
roaring, his composure sha
ce echoed shrilly from the
up,
holding me ti
face agains
ke sandalwood
his shirt, my consciousness fa
in a hos
nt of antisepti
chair next to me. His hea
ing sitting in the ru
" he said, sit
aze fixed on the white ceilin
voice low. "Elena... why did you dri
told
an..." He trailed off, th
hed for
the sheet, hiding
I said, my voice cold as ice. "
as if I ha
ling your
said. "And it's all
a caged animal. "I'm doing this for th
countered. "And I unders
me with a terrifying intensity,
l. "Contract or no contract. Wife or no wife.
d strode out
the heavy doo
ed the IV ou
e pristine white shee
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