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ate seemed to cong

losing the distance i

ulders with a force that drove the bre

gany display cabinet, sending a sharp

ou insane?!"

lished Don vanished, replaced by the fera

y head and stared directly

to me before they locked you be

oosened by

the lapels of his expensive suit, pulling h

I whispered, my voice a thin, sh

handed another woman her freedom. You u

and stepped back, pulling o

tween his lips but did n

astard anyway," he said, his vo

atch, lit the cigaret

e issued a direct order-not as a husb

her again. T

toward t

front of hundreds of Made Men at the annual banquet last w

h his foot on t

r of the true Mafia Q

ectly still for fiv

ally said, walking up the

lders. Faint red bruises in the shape of his thi

ruined living room. Her hands trembled as she he

, pulling out my encrypted ph

was my most loyal intelligence oper

d check on a woman named Sofia," I

piece of dirt