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phin
, but it was nothing compared to the co
ined in a lightless basement. They had drugged me, beaten me, and stripped away my dignity. But the true agony was the h
shoulders. At the mouth of the alley, a few Valenti Associates smoked under the st
hem muttered, spitting on the ground.
penthouse. I lay bleeding on the pristine silk sheets of a guest bedroom. Throug
matriarch of the family, hissed. Earlier, I had begged her f
ght! I will have my Vendetta agains
ac
at. "You want to parade our scandal to the Five Families? You will bury this. You will marry Carissa Marin
il they bled. I waited for Angelo, the man who had p
in
struck with the force of a bullet. My heart s
anilla perfume filled the room. Carissa, my
, her eyes gleaming. "My father arranged the kidnapping. Framing Damien Falcone was just... good busine
arissa was faster. She snatched a silver letter opener from the nightstand, forced the cold meta
back and let out a
ear-stained face. He didn't see the agony in my eyes. He crossed the room in two strides and
at, gathering a sobbing Carissa into his ar
on her serpent-head cane. Her cold eyes swept over
eir faces were blank, devoid of any humanit
om the violence. He looked down at me one last
ned hi
loody silver handle of the letter opener. With brutal, mech
o black. But beneath the agony, a fire ignited in the deepest, darkest corner of my s
I will make you all bleed
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