Dying To Escape The Obsessive Mafia Don

Cassius, only for him to give the ultimate symbol of his protecti

nzo, and my ally Lucian all followed suit, p

y only way home to the real world-they violently aborted the procedure. They accused me of twisted manipulation and locked me in a high-security

that you may watch them choose me-un

make them stop, yet a single tear from Serena became their abso

ed by my hospital bed, through the system

calmly signed the papers for their

or good, I will tear Serena

pte

ia

rclet onto my finger, a voice like grinding gears whispered

o your origin world, or forfeit the life of your brother." The voice was cold, clinical-but beneath its grinding cadence, I caught a

down at

ssue. The kind you get from beating men to death with bare hands

dium, set perilously near the edge of the coastal cliffs. The

chanical voice echo

ation missio

d to bel

leviathan empire. Every sleepless night, every bloody ledger I balanced, every ri

ion spoke o

ributable to a sing

Their thorns pricked my forearms through the paper wrappings, th

gaze past Cassius

his heavily armed soldiers. Pinned to the ce

se. The Family'

ant one thing: untouchable. The Don

d given i

ed my line of sight. For a fraction of a second, a vei

nd brushed a stray lock

voice pitched low. Placating. "She had a violent

t lined with

ve to be that

hadow of impatience

e swept his arm toward the stadium. "You shouldn't fight Sere

e. A full bucket, dumped over my h

I understood what nine

dn't understand the exclusionary nature of true fealty-the kind that leaves no r

sion's voi

for your brother and initiate the lethal ex

y into Cassius's

es

om his shoulders. He looked so relieved.

diamond ring from my finger. Place

going

ile va

the ring to

the ocean threw itself against the

chopper tore through the bruised storm clo

ip locked around my ar

a, s

ow. Frustrated knot between his eyes. Lik

use. We can delay the wed

nch free, soft foo

assius's prized wooden baseball bat-the relic he neve

ill have the lawyers transfer the

efest flicker before she lowered her gaze, I caught it-something cold

detachment he'd perfected-the same look he gave me when he developed the Aria Pr

ready to extract any

calculated everything, including the day he

long before this moment. I jus

n's voice ret

tiated. Proceed to isolation to

beginning-any intervention that stabilized my vitals wou

s coming in, and I knew exactly which c