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day, my broth
groom is late, he pays
t feared mafia Don,
r three thousand dollars
my father confidently e
was on my finger, Enzo looked at
this game, right?"
are late, I deduct five hundr
ate to a Syndicate dinner. He d
ate to my doctor's appointment.
sary, my father suffered
the pouring rain and arrived at
e cold steak on th
ars. It comes out of
rgue. I ju
y tossed his tablet to me, ask
reen unlocked, a new
tina. Memo: An apology for m
ed as I opened
te for their date, he sent
t the hotel, he wired her
doctors to save my dying father, Enzo was in a
transactions for custom lingerie and
r two years before
the exact twenty thousand do
a Syndicate s
pte
ma
flashed green: Transf
out, a towel slung low around his wai
tion on his phone and let
y learning obedi
man I had love
marriage, he had flown his private jet thro
n replaced by the cold, calculat
memory and locked my phon
tossed his dam
ch it, terrified the water would ruin t
The wet towel landed wit
tightened. "You have been growi
the issue, my phone ra
tured aneurysm following the brain hemorrhage. We need to operate immedia
personal account. I only had s
savings and income into the Family's joint trust. He co
m. "Transfer one hundred thousand from
e screen. He casually poure
mily trust?" he sneered. "Two years ago, your family's house renovation
account too," I sai
calculator app. The tapping sound was
," he calculated coldly. "And you were thirteen minutes late coming home last night. Th
is waiting for li
g onto mine with chilling authority. "But rules are rules, Gemma. Every ti
ing joke from four years ago, weapo
ord. I grabbed my bag
p my coat from the rack and draped it over my shoulders. He
ing my ear. Then, his tone dropped into a lethal whisper. "Curfew is at
uched the doorknob
. The volume was loud enough for me t
to go back to my emp
ped a reply instantly: "Then don
I slammed the door behind me, w
dollars. I called my best friend, Clara, w
l wasn'
hree blocks away and pawned my grandfather's
t look. "Selling this now is
e cash immediat
nected to the Syndicate. Less than ten minutes
ous growl that usually made grown men tremble. "Se
mine t
back and talk to me properly?" he roared. "Did
descending drawl. "Just submit, Gemma. Beg for my forgi
f, waiting for me to break down and beg. Once I submit
my voice complete
1:01 PM, my
late. $500
1:02
late. $1,00
by my father's bed, watching the rise
nal notification r
$240,000. Insufficient funds for
father cling to life. And for that, I now owed the m
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