My Assistant Vanished Two Days Before My Wedding—When I Found Her Bleeding In A Slum, I Cancelled The Entire Merger
Part 2
I dropped my weapon onto the edge of the chipped porcelain sink.
The heavy clack echoed loudly over the sound of the rain lashing against the tiny window.
Megan’s head snapped up.
Her glassy eyes stared at me through a thick haze of fever.
She didn’t scream or cry out for help.
She let out a rattling breath and weakly complained that I was tracking mud onto her floor.
I fell to my knees and ignored the freezing water seeping through my expensive trousers.
I gently pried the bloody needle from her violently trembling fingers.
I demanded to know who had done this to her.
My voice cracked the fragile silence of the room with unintentional harshness.
She closed her eyes and whispered that the damage was done with an ugly knife.
I pulled the wadded towel away to reveal a deep, jagged slice meant to hamstring her.
I angrily asked her why she hadn’t called our syndicate doctor for help.
She gripped the rim of the bathtub and panted that the doctor answered directly to my Uncle Paul.
The blood roaring in my ears suddenly sounded like a crashing tidal wave.
She looked at me with pure exhaustion and revealed the merger was actually a hostile takeover.
Heather’s family was planning to poison me at the rehearsal dinner tonight.
My own uncle had routed our payoff money to the caterers to facilitate the assassination.
Megan had intercepted the rival courier carrying the physical proof.
She chose to live in this terrible squalor because she spent her massive salary funding her mother’s care facility.
She had hidden her vulnerability so I would never consider her a weak link.
I grabbed a bottle of rubbing alcohol and poured it directly over her open wound.
She bit hard into her own shoulder to keep from screaming as I tied off the stitches.
My burner phone suddenly buzzed in my pocket with an incoming call from Heather.
Heather sharply demanded to know my location while the caterers threatened to walk out.
I stared at the sticky, drying blood coating my knuckles.
I calmly informed my fiancée that there would be no rehearsal dinner.
I told her the wedding was permanently cancelled and crushed the phone in my grip.
I tossed the shattered plastic into the dry bathtub and scooped Megan off the floor.
As I carried her out of that freezing apartment, I realized I didn’t just have to cancel my wedding—but how was I going to tear apart my own uncle’s empire before dawn?
Part 3
Tearing apart his uncle’s empire before dawn required absolute precision, but Dan’s first priority was the woman bleeding in his arms.
He carried her out of the freezing apartment and gently placed her into the waiting SUV.
The ride to the estate was a masterclass in suffocating silence.
The black SUV tore through the slick, rainbow battered streets, taking corners with a reckless speed that threw Megan’s unconscious body against Dan’s chest.
He didn’t adjust her.
He just clamped his arm tighter around her shoulders, his jaw locked so hard, his mers ground together.
The heavy iron gates of his compound parted, and Tyler slammed the brakes outside the front portico before the vehicle had even fully stopped.
“Get Craig!”
Dan snapped, kicking his door open.
“I want him in the east-wing guest room 3 minutes ago.”
Tyler didn’t waste time nodding.
He sprinted toward the security annex.
Dan carried Megan through the cavernous foyer of his home.
His boots left dark, muddy prints across the imported marble, but the pristine curated perfection of the house only made him nauseous.
The air smelled of beeswax and expensive air filters.
It felt sterile, dead.
He hauled her up the sweeping staircase, her head lulling against his ruined shirt, the metallic stench of her blood clashing violently with the faint scent of lemon polish.
He kicked open the door to the east wing guest suite.
He deposited her onto the center of the sprawling king-sized bed.
The stark white duvet instantly began to absorb the dark red fluid seeping from her hastily bandaged thigh.
Craig, the syndicate’s private physician, arrived breathless 2 minutes later.
He carried a heavy leather medical bag and smelled faintly of expensive gin and mint mints.
Dan, what Craig started, stopping dead at the foot of the bed.
He took in the blood, the dirt, the bruised and emaciated woman lying on the Egyptian cotton.
“Is that Ms.
Hayes?”
“Fix her,” Dan ordered.
He backed away from the bed, his hands hanging uselessly at his sides.
The adrenaline was receding, leaving a cold, jagged hollow in his chest.
Craig didn’t ask more questions.
He stripped off his jacket, snapped on a pair of latex gloves, and went to work.
Dan stood by the tall arched window, listening to the rain hammer against the glass.
He refused to look away, forcing himself to watch as Craig cut away the blood soaked gray t-shirt and the crude bandages.
Her core temperature is 103, Craig muttered, hooking a bag of clear fluid to an IV pole he dragged from the closet.
He expertly found a vein in the crook of her elbow.
Dehydration.
Severe exhaustion.
The wound is nasty, Dan.
Whoever did this twisted the blade before they pulled it out.
You did a decent job stopping the bleed, but the infection is already racing through her bloodstream.
Dan crossed his arms.
The damp clinging silk of his shirt felt like a second skin.
Will she keep the leg?
Yes, provided her heart doesn’t give out from the fever first.
Craig began flushing the wound with a harsh chemical smelling antiseptic.
Megan didn’t twitch.
She was completely under.
Dan, when was the last time she ate?
Her ribs are bruising her skin from the inside out.
Her immune system is completely depleted.
It’s like she’s been running on fumes and black coffee for a year.
The words felt like a physical strike.
Dan looked at Megan’s collarbones, sharp and protruding beneath the harsh overhead light.
He thought about the catered lunches he expensed to his office, the heavy, rich meals he ate while she sat at her desk outside his door, quietly organizing his empire.
He had never once asked if she had eaten.
He assumed she took care of herself.
He assumed his money insulated her from hardship.
He had assumed wrong.
Pump her full of whatever antibiotics you have, Dan said, his voice flat, devoid of the tremor he felt in his hands.
If she needs a transfusion, take it from me.
I’m O negative.
Craig paused, looking over his shoulder.
The doctor’s eyes were sharp, evaluating.
Dan Russo did not bleed for his employees.
He bled his enemies.
But Craig merely nodded, turning back to his patient.
I’ll stabilize her.
But she needs sleep, Dan.
Real sleep.
Not passing out from blood loss, there was a heavy knock on the bedroom door.
Tyler stood in the frame, holding the stack of encrypted hard drives and the manila folders he had retrieved from the squalid apartment on Garrison Street.
“Put them in my study,” Dan told him.
Tyler hesitated, glancing at Megan’s motionless form on the bed.
Boss, the phones are melting down.
Heather’s father just landed at the private airirstrip, and your uncle Paul is asking why the rehearsal dinner at the restaurant was abruptly cancelled by security.
He wants a face to face.
Dan looked away from the bed.
The guilt, the jarring realization of his own failures crystallized instantly into a cold, focused rage.
Tell Paul I’ll meet him,” Dan said softly.
“Tell him to come here.”
The study smelled of aged leather, rain, and the sharp tang of gun oil.
Dan sat behind his massive mahogany desk, a rag in one hand, and the disassembled slide of his Glock in the other.
He wiped down the springs with mechanical rhythmic precision.
The encrypted hard drives sat in a neat stack next to his elbow, an impenetrable brick wall holding the secrets of his impending demise.
He had tried the standard syndicate bypass codes.
Nothing worked.
Megan had locked them down with an algorithm he couldn’t crack.
Down the hall, the house was entirely silent, save for the ticking of the grandfather clock in the foyer.
It was 3 a.m.
He slapped the slide back onto the frame of the gun, racking at once.
The sharp metallic clack echoed off the vaulted ceiling.
He shoved the weapon into his shoulder holster.
A soft, dragging sound caught his attention.
It wasn’t the heavy tread of his guards.
It was a friction sound.
Fabric against hardwood.
Dan stood up, his hand dropping instinctively toward his chest.
He moved silently to the door of the study and pulled it open.
Megan was leaning heavily against the door frame of the guest room at the end of the hall.
She was a ghost.
She wore one of Dan’s oversized black button-down shirts, which Craig had clearly found in his closet and put on her after cleaning her up.
It fell to her mid thigh, swimming on her frail frame.
Her left leg was heavily bandaged, a thick brace locking her knee straight.
Her right hand gripped the aluminum pole of the IV stand, using it as a makeshift crutch.
She looked absolutely wrecked.
Her face was a mottled canvas of purples and sickly yellows, her hair a damp, tangled mess against her neck, but her eyes, staring down the long shadowed hallway at him, were violently awake.
“Get back in bed,” Dan ordered.
His voice was a low rumble carrying across the polished floors.
Megan didn’t listen.
“She never really did,” he realized.
She just managed his demands in a way that made him think he was in control.
She took a step forward, dragging her stiff leg, the wheels of the IV pole squeaking softly.
Dan swore under his breath and closed the distance in five long strides.
He stopped right in front of her, his hands hovering, unsure where to grab her that wouldn’t cause her pain.
I said, “Get back in bed, Megan.
You’re bleeding through the dressing.”
I heard cars, she rasped.
Her voice was thin, completely ruined by dehydration.
Gravel crunching.
You sent Tyler out.
Tyler is pulling the guards from the harbor and redirecting them to the perimeter of this estate.
Now bed.
You can’t read the drives, she said, ignoring his command entirely.
She leaned her weight onto the IV pole, her knuckles white.
She tilted her head back to look up at him.
You don’t have the encryption key.
You’re flying blind, Dan.
He stared down at her.
The scent of Craig’s sharp antiseptic lingered on her skin mixed with a faint underlying smell that was purely her.
Something like dry paper and rain.
I can handle my uncle and the Montgomerys without a spreadsheet.
No, you can’t.
Megan fired back.
A spark of genuine irritation finally breaking through her exhaustion.
Paul didn’t just root the caterer’s money.
He gave them the layout of the South Armory.
He gave them the shift rotations for your personal detail.
If you go to war tonight without knowing exactly what he sold them, they will slaughter your men.”
Her chest heaved, the effort of speaking draining the little color she had left in her face.
She swayed dangerously on her good leg.
Dan caught her by the waist.
His large hand spled flat across the soft cotton of his shirt, pulling her flush against his chest.
She gasped, a short, sharp intake of breath, her hands flying up to grip his forearms.
For a second, neither of them moved.
The physical contact was jarring.
For 4 years they had existed in a sterile professional orbit, never touching, never crossing the line of the desk.
Now she was pressed against him, burning with fever, her heart hammering against his ribs like a trapped bird.
She felt impossibly small, yet she was holding the entire weight of his survival in her bruised head.
Let me go, she muttered, looking down at his chest, refusing to meet his eyes.
You’re going to fall.
I’m going to the study, she corrected, her voice tight with a strange, defensive panic.
I need my laptop.
You need a hospital.
Dan shifted his grip, fully intending to pick her up again.
Megan’s hands tightened on his arms, her short nails digging into his skin.
Dan, please.
The word stopped him.
She never said please.
She organized.
She executed.
She informed.
She didn’t beg.
He finally looked at her face.
Really looked at the raw, unfiltered terror pooling in her dark eyes.
It wasn’t fear of the Montgomerys.
It was fear of being useless.
She had starved herself and lived in squalor to prove she could handle her burdens alone.
Being helpless, being carried, it terrified her more than a bullet.
He slowly released his grip on her waist, though he kept his hands close.
1 hour, Dan compromised, his voice dropping to a grally whisper.
“You give me the keys, you show me the drops, and then I am sedating you myself.”
Megan offered a ragged, bloody smirk.
Deal.
The heavy leather of Dan’s desk chair swallowed her.
He had wheeled it around to the front of the desk, refusing to let her walk the extra 5 ft behind it.
He dragged a heavy wooden stool over for her injured leg, propping it up carefully.
Megan didn’t wait for him to finish hovering.
She pulled the laptop toward her, her fingers flying across the keys.
The movement was jerky, uncoordinated from the fever and the lingering effects of whatever painkillers Craig had pumped into her IV, but her muscle memory was flawless.
Dan stood directly behind her chair, his hands resting on the high leather back.
He watched the screen boot up, watched lines of code scroll past as she bypassed the first layer of security on the hard drive.
You’re shaking, Dan observed quietly.
Caffeine withdrawal, Megan lied.
Her teeth were chattering.
Dan turned and walked to the small wet bar in the corner of the study.
He poured a finger of aged whiskey into a crystal glass, walked back, and set it on the desk next to her trackpad.
“Drink it.
It’ll open your blood vessels.
Help with the chill.”
She eyed the amber liquid suspiciously, then picked it up with a trembling hand and threw it back in one gulp.
She coughed violently, her face twisting as the burn hit her empty stomach, but a faint flush of color crept into her pale cheeks a moment later.
“Better?” he asked.
“Disgusting,” she croked, setting the glass down.
“Okay, I’m in.”
The screen flickered, revealing a massive, heavily indexed spreadsheet.
It was a digital map of Dan’s ruin.
Filter by the last 30 days, Dan ordered, leaning closer.
His chest brushed the back of her chair.
Megan tapped the trackpad, the list truncated.
Here, Paul initiated seven transfers from the shell company that handles the dock tariffs.
Small amounts under the radar.
But look at the routing numbers.
Cayman, Dan said, his eyes narrowing.
Heather’s father’s preferred bank.
Exactly.
But it’s not just money, Dan.
Look at the attached files.
Megan clicked on a small paperclip icon next to a transaction dated from Tuesday morning, the day she had disappeared.
A blueprint filled the screen.
It was the Russo shipping warehouse on Pier 4.
Red X’s marked the structural weak points, the blind spots in the security cameras, and the exact location of the breaker box.
That warehouse holds the smuggled munitions from the Irish, Dan said, the temperature in the room plummeting.
If the Montgomerys hit that, the explosion will level three city blocks, and the police will blame me for domestic terrorism.
They aren’t hitting it to blow it up.
Megan corrected, her fingers flying over the keys again.
She brought up an intercepted email, heavily encrypted, but broken down into plain text.
They’re hitting it to steal the munitions.
Heather’s father wants your guns to arm his own men for the takeover.
The hit is scheduled for 4:00 a.m.
Dan looked at the clock on his desk.
It was 3:15 a.m.
Paul is leading the strike team.
Megan added softly.
He sent an email to Heather’s father confirming he has the gate coats.
The silence in the study was absolute, thick as wet cement.
Dan stared at the name on the screen.
Paul Russo, the man who had taught him how to shoot, the man who had stood at his father’s funeral and sworn loyalty to the bloodline.
Dan didn’t yell.
He didn’t smash anything.
He just inhaled slowly the scent of the rain outside filling his lungs and exhaled a long, cold breath.
“He’s going to pier 4,” Dan stated.
“It wasn’t a question.
He’s already there,” Megan said.
She slumped back against the chair, the adrenaline crash hitting her fast and hard.
Her eyelids drooped.
“He’s waiting for the Montgomery trucks to arrive.”
“Tyler!”
Dan barked without raising his voice, the study door pushed open instantly.
Tyler stood there, a tactical shotgun slung across his chest.
“Boss, get the men in the armory.
Suppressed weapons only.
No heavy explosives.
We are going to the docks and we are going quietly.
Dan stepped away from Megan’s chair, his face a mask of absolute chilling calm.
Leave two men on the perimeter of the house.
No one gets in.
Tyler nodded grimly and vanished.
Dan turned back to the desk.
He opened the heavy bottom drawer and pulled out a sleek compact sie sour.
He checked the magazine, slammed it home, and racked the slide.
He set the gun on the desk right next to Megan’s empty whiskey glass.
Megan stared at the black metal.
“I don’t know how to shoot,” you pointed at the door.
“If anyone opens it, who isn’t me, you pull the trigger until it clicks empty.”
Dan walked around the desk, standing directly in front of her.
He reached out, his knuckles brushing lightly against her. unbred cheek.
Her skin was still entirely too hot.
Lock the door behind me.
Do not open it.
Do you understand?
Megan looked up at him.
The cynical detached assistant was gone.
The woman looking back at him was stripped raw, terrified, but entirely present.
“Dan,” she whispered.
He stopped, his hand resting on the heavy brass door knob.
Don’t make me plan your funeral,” she said, her voice shaking.
Dan’s lips curved into a dark, genuine smile.
It didn’t reach his eyes, which were already dead, and focused on the violence to come.
“I canceled the wedding, Megan,” he said softly.
“I’m not putting you through catering a funeral, too.”
He stepped out into the hallway, pulling the door shut behind him.
He heard the heavy brass deadbolt slide into place with a definitive thunk.
Dan turned toward the stairs, the cold logic of the impending slaughter taking over his mind.
The Montgomery family thought they were orchestrating a quiet corporate merger.
They had no idea they had just woken the monster.
The drive back felt endless.
Dan’s hands gripped the leather wheel until his knuckles achd.
His suit weighed heavily on his shoulders, wreaking of damp wool, gunpowder, and the copper tang of blood.
When he walked into the pristine lemonscented foyer of his estate, the luxury turned his stomach.
The real world was the freezing bathroom on Garrison Street.
He walked down the shadowed corridor to his study.
The brass knob didn’t turn.
The deadbolt was thrown.
He leaned his forehead against the cool wood, a tight knot forming in his throat.
She had listened to him.
“Megan,” he said softly.
A heavy wooden stool scraped across the floorboards inside.
The deadbolt snicked back.
The door cracked open, revealing Megan’s dark, exhausted eye.
The door swung wide.
She was slumped against the frame, swallowed by his oversized black shirt.
In her right hand, dangling toward the floor, was the Sig Sour.
Her finger rested flat outside the trigger guard, but her grip on the metal was white knuckled.
Dan stepped inside, kicking the door shut.
He reached out, gently wrapping his large hand around the barrel of the gun, easing it from her rigid fingers.
He engaged the safety and tossed it onto the sofa.
“You didn’t shoot me,” Dan noted, his voice rough.
“You knocked,” Megan whispered, scanning his ruined shirt, the dark stains on his cuffs.
“Did you?”
Paul is dead.
The Montgomerys leave tomorrow.
Megan closed her eyes.
The tension snapping in her shoulders took her balance with it.
Her good leg buckled.
Dan caught her mid-colapse, scooping her up against his chest.
She didn’t fight him.
She just rested her bruised cheek against his damp shoulder.
Her breathing shallow.
He carried her past the desk, ignoring the laptop screen, still displaying his uncle’s ruined empire, and walked straight into his private master suite.
He bypassed the guest room entirely.
The room was warm, heated by a stone fireplace.
He laid her gently in the center of the massive bed.
“I need to wash,” Dan said, staring at his grease and blood stained hands.
“Don’t move.
Can’t feel my leg anyway,” she murmured.
“In the ensuite,” Dan turned the water on, scolding hot, he scrubbed away the docks, the gunpowder, and his uncle’s memory, watching pink tinged water swirl down the marble drain.
He stripped off his ruined suit and shirt, towed off, and walked back in, wearing only his dark trousers.
Megan was staring at the ceiling.
Dan sat on the edge of the mattress.
“Craig said, “You need sleep.
My brain won’t shut off,” she replied, rolling her head to look at his bare chest, the syndicate ink, the pale scars.
“What happens tomorrow?”
I explained the new terms of existence to Heather’s father.
Heather was a strategic alliance, she said, her voice thin but stubborn.
If you cut the Montgomerys off, you lose 20% of your gross margin.
Dan let out a harsh, disbelieving laugh.
He leaned over, bracing his hands on the mattress beside her shoulders.
The fever heat still radiated off her skin.
I just dismantled a hostile takeover, executed my own blood, and carried you out of a slum.
And you are quoting gross margins at me.
Someone has to keep the books balanced.
I was blind without you, he corrected softly.
The professional distance they had meticulously maintained for 4 years vanished.
He brushed his thumb gently against her jawline.
Your mother’s facility is fully funded through my private trust.
The apartment on Garrison Street is done.
Tyler is packing your things.
And then he’s burning that building to the ground.
Megan’s lips parted.
You can’t just mandate my life.
I just did.
He leaned closer, smelling the sharp antiseptic on her skin.
You bled for me.
You are never going back to a desk outside my door.
You are staying in this room.
She swallowed hard.
I’m your assistant.
No, Dan whispered, the desperate need in his chest settling into a cold, possessive certainty.
You’re my partner, and if anyone ever looks at you sideways again, I will tear their eyes out.
Megan looked at the man who had orchestrated a slaughter, looking at her as if she anchored him to the earth.
She let out a long, slow breath.
The pragmatic walls finally falling away.
I prefer wild mushroom over the truffle riotto.
Anyway, she mumbled, her heavy eyelids sliding shut.
Dan’s chest hitched with a genuine quiet laugh.
He pulled the dark linen sheets over her shoulders.
He didn’t leave.
He lay down on top of the covers beside her, watching the shadows dance on the ceiling, listening to her breathe.
The sunlight cut through the tall windows of the master suite like a physical blade, bright and uncompromising.
Dan was already awake.
He stood by the window wearing a fresh white shirt, the sleeves rolled up to his elbows, a cup of black coffee in one hand, and a newly activated burner phone in the other.
It was 8:00 a.m.
The phone vibrated against his palm.
The caller ID was a Boston area code.
Dan took a slow sip of his coffee.
The bitter heat coated his tongue.
He hit accept and brought the phone to his ear.
Dan.
Richard Montgomery’s voice bmed through the speaker.
It wasn’t the smooth, arrogant tone of a patriarch planning a hostile takeover.
It was tight.
It was the sound of a man who had just looked into the back of a box struck and seen his own mortality.
“What have you done?”
“I returned your property,” Dan said, his voice smooth, carrying no malice, only absolute authority.
“I hope the flight back to Boston was comfortable.
You murdered Paul.
You slaughtered my men.
This is an act of war.
This is an eviction notice, Dan corrected.
He turned, looking at the bed.
Megan was still asleep, her breathing deep and even.
The fever finally broken during the night.
The dark bruising on her face was stark against the white pillows.
A violent reminder of the price she had paid.
Dan’s eyes hardened.
Listen to me very carefully, Richard.
The merger is dead.
Heather is entirely free to pursue other arrangements, but if your syndicate attempts to move product through my ports, if your trucks cross the city line, or if I so much as smell one of your enforcers in my territory, I won’t send the bodies back next time.
I will bring them to your front door myself.
You arrogant son of a You can’t run the shipping lines without my capital.
You’ll bleed out in 6 months.
I have better accountants than you think,” Dan said, his gaze fixed softly on Megan.
“Do not call me again.”
He hung up the phone and dropped it into his pocket.
From the bed, there was a soft rustle of linen.
Megan shifted, wincing slightly as the movement pulled at the stitches in her thigh.
She opened her eyes, blinking against the harsh morning light.
She looked around the massive, unfamiliar room, her gaze finally landing on Dan standing by the window.
“Did you shoot the phone?” she asked, her voice raspy with sleep.
Dan walked over to the nightstand, setting his coffee cup down.
I handled Richard.
Megan slowly pushed herself up, bracing her back against the headboard.
She looked down at the oversized black shirt she was wearing, then at the heavy brace on her leg.
The memories of the night before, the freezing bathroom, the needle, the chaotic ride to the estate, and the intense, suffocating promise Dan had made her, rushed back.
She looked up at him.
He was watching her with a quiet, intense focus.
He wasn’t the polished, unapproachable boss this morning.
He was the man who had knelt in her blood.
So Megan said, clearing her throat, trying to find her professional footing.
The Montgomery network is out.
We’re going to have to restructure the offshore accounts by Tuesday, or the shell companies are going to flag the IRS.
Dan leaned over, bracing his hands on the mattress on either side of her hips. effectively trapping her.
The scent of soap and black coffee enveloped her.
“Stop,” Dan said softly.
“I’m just saying if we don’t pivot.”
“Megan, look at me.”
She stopped talking.
She met his eyes.
They were dark, deep, and completely stripped of the corporate mask.
“Your laptop is locked in the study.”
Dan told her, “You are not touching a spreadsheet for 2 weeks.
Craig is coming back at noon to check your stitches and start you on a proper diet.
You are going to rest.
I don’t do well with resting, she muttered, a faint flush creeping into her pale cheeks at his proximity.
I’m going to get bored.
Then I will entertain you, Dan replied, his voice dropping to a low, rough register that sent a sudden shiver down her spine.
But you are not working.
You are healing.
Megan looked at the heavy gold watch on his wrist, then at the faint silver scars on his knuckles.
She had spent four years organizing this man’s life, anticipating his needs, cleaning up his messes.
She had thought she was invisible to him.
She had thought she was just a ghost in the machine.
She raised her hand, her fingers trembling slightly, and rested her palm flat against the center of his chest, right over his heart.
She could feel the steady, powerful rhythm of it beneath his crisp shirt.
“You canled a multi-million dollar wedding for me,” she said quietly, stating it not as a question, but as a terrifying fact she was finally accepting.
I cancelled a business transaction, Dan corrected, his hand coming up to cover hers, pressing her palm tighter against his chest.
I burned down a slum for you.
I executed my uncle for you.
I would have burned the entire city to the ground if I hadn’t found you in time.
Megan stared at him, the cynical, pragmatic walls she had built around her heart cracking and falling away.
There was no fairy tale here.
He was a violent, dangerous man, and she was the woman who kept his ledgers.
Their hands were both covered in blood.
But in the cold, brutal light of the mafia world, it was the truest form of devotion she had ever seen.
“Okay,” she whispered, her fingers curling slightly into his shirt.
THE END
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