Broken Oath: The Surgeon's Spectacular Comeback

a. For five years, I used my underground surgical

dier, I walked out into the pouring rain to find his

Capo's car is a throne that belo

his tailored coat and drinking from

te didn't apologize. Instea

ena. She is a traumatized

sociate, completely disregarding my

tfully innocent eyes, but hid a

build his marital fortress. I had bought

f absolute devotion like garbage ov

and I didn't b

rothal ring, dropped it into a biohazard

e back my money, destroy his standing, and let

pte

ena

ed glass of the SUV. Through the distortion of water and light, I fixed my

accept my place as a pathetic joke in the u

five-year blood oath and invite a

ranean operating theatre, my hands dee

ould remove the faint, metallic ghost of another man's blood from beneath my fingernails, or the sharp tang of antiseptic that had

hrone by leaving the heads of twelve rival s

ar, because he respected only bruta

f shadows, I was the

the dark alley t

high-ranking Capo

rothal-an alliance that I personally f

stant glass, I saw that Sofia was

a dead soldier, a girl whom Dan

d cashmere coat draped as if by

ightly around the custom silver f

of a Capo's c

he only thing that kept you alive, it belonged

a quiet hiss against the percus

sorry,

wide and caref

c attack," she said, a tre

t in the front where

ver's seat, and no apology sof

in the bac

ain, and she is

eason

y veins, the kind that preced

eat-it was a public ex

tulation, and on these streets, a perceived slig

my gaze traveled to Sofia's small, victor

d, wet metal of the rear door handle, a f

ng echoed in the narrow alley, a

ner phone from

y moved across the screen I t

th is broken.

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lked toward the heavy steel doors

s fist against the steering whee