My Manager Tried To Hide My Plus-Size Figure From The Mafia—Until I Spoke Their Ancient Language
Part 2
For three excruciating seconds, nobody breathed.
The translator stared at me with his jaw literally hanging open.
Craig looked like he was having a coronary event behind the bar.
Vince Moretti froze, his dark, deadly eyes slowly dragging away from his father to lock onto me.
He looked at my soft face, my messy bun, and my wide waist, taking in my absolute lack of fear.
A dark, mesmerizing intensity flared within his obsidian eyes.
Don Leo stood perfectly still, processing the large, unapologetic American woman who had just scolded him using his great-grandfather’s dialect.
The weathered lines on the old man’s face shifted as amusement won out.
A low, rumbling chuckle started deep in his chest, building until the terrifying mafia don threw his head back and laughed.
That massive guffaw rang through the dining room, bouncing off the expensive fixtures.
He slammed his cane onto the floor, his face splitting into a massive grin.
He praised my spirit in flawless Sicilian, demanding that the useless translator be thrown out.
He ordered me to bring the wine, refusing to be served by another walking skeleton.
Vince lazily flicked two fingers, and his bodyguards immediately dragged the terrified translator out the doors.
Then, Vince leaned back in his seat, his gaze returning to me with intense, consuming calculation.
It wasn’t the disgusted look Craig always gave me.
He looked at my heavy curves like he was seeing something priceless hidden in plain sight.
His deep, velvety baritone sent a sudden shiver down my spine as he asked my name.
I kept my voice steady, refusing to let him see how fast my heart was hammering.
A slow, dangerous smirk curled his mouth as he ordered me to pull up a chair.
I didn’t perch nervously on the edge of the leather booth like the other waitresses would have.
I settled my heavy hips deeply into the seat, letting my weight ground me while Vince watched my every move.
Don Leo commanded me to eat.
Within minutes, the terrified kitchen staff wheeled out a massive feast of roasted marrow bones and thick steaks.
I bypassed Craig’s delicate wine selections, ordering three bottles of a bold Super Tuscan.
As we ate, I became the bridge between two generations of ruthless power, translating Vince’s cold metrics into Leo’s honor-bound poetry.
I didn’t pick at my food; I dragged crusty bread through the marrow, relishing every bite.
Vince was mesmerized, his gaze darkening with naked, predatory hunger every time I laughed.
He murmured that he had no intention of ever letting me go.
But before I could process the sheer gravity of his words, the heavy oak front doors of the restaurant exploded.
As the front doors suddenly exploded in a shower of shattered glass and automatic gunfire, I realized my night with the mob was just beginning—but would any of us make it out alive?
Part 3
Megan Cooper had always known that her physical presence was an undeniable, heavy anchor in a world that desperately wanted her to float away into nothingness.
She was twenty-five years old, wearing a proud size twenty-two, and existing in an industry that worshipped hollow cheekbones and protruding collarbones.
In the ultra-exclusive, hyper-competitive culinary scene of Manhattan, being plus-sized meant being completely invisible to the people who mattered.
She worked as a server at Il Sogno Bianco, a Michelin-starred Italian restaurant located on a pristine block of East 63rd Street.
It was the kind of establishment where reservations were booked six months in advance by politicians, celebrities, and billionaires.
A single plate of their signature truffle pasta cost more than most people’s monthly car payments.
The restaurant’s general manager, Craig Thompson, was a superficial tyrant who hired exclusively from a pool of struggling runway models.
He wanted his staff to look like they belonged on the cover of a fashion magazine, not in a sweltering commercial kitchen.
Megan was the glaring exception to his perfectly curated aesthetic.
She had only survived his ruthless staffing purges because she was arguably the hardest-working employee in the entire building.
While the size-zero waitresses spent their shifts hiding in the back to check their makeup in the reflection of polished silver platters, Megan carried the restaurant on her broad shoulders.
She was the one hauling forty-pound crates of San Marzano tomatoes and heavy wheels of Parmesan from the delivery trucks in the freezing rain.
She spent her exhausted nights memorizing the convoluted, ever-changing wine lists that the other girls completely ignored.
She could balance three massive trays of scalding hot osso buco on her thick, capable forearms without breaking a single sweat.
Despite her undeniable competence, Craig treated her like a shameful secret that needed to be kept hidden from the elite clientele.
Tonight, that cruel dynamic was being pushed to its absolute limit.
Craig cornered her in the stainless-steel prep kitchen, his pale face glistening with cold sweat under the harsh fluorescent lights.
He hissed that the entire main floor had been bought out by the Moretti family, frantically adjusting his bespoke silk tie.
His eyes darted nervously toward the swinging dining room doors as if the devil himself was waiting on the other side.
Megan wiped her brow with the back of her wrist, feeling the heavy fabric of her custom extra-large apron pull tight across her wide hips.
She knew exactly who Vince Moretti was; half the Upper East Side whispered about the ruthless, Yale-educated head of the Cosa Nostra’s new generation.
Vince operated out of a fortress-like penthouse on Park Avenue, a modern ghost who was terrifyingly untouchable by the law.
But Craig wasn’t just terrified of Vince; he was terrified of the old man.
He sneered that Vince’s father, Don Leo Moretti, was flying in directly from Palermo for this specific dinner.
Craig looked Megan’s heavy-set figure up and down with obvious, unfiltered disgust.
He stated that the Don was notoriously traditional and despised modern American excess.
Craig’s lip curled slightly as he delivered his final, humiliating blow.
He demanded a sleek, elegant aesthetic for the evening, explicitly stating that he could not afford to have Megan waddling between the tight tables and knocking over thousand-dollar wine with her hips.
The insult flared hot in her chest, a sharp, familiar humiliation that tasted like copper on her tongue.
She swallowed the anger down, desperately needing the tip pool from the back house to make her rent that month.
She muttered a quiet acknowledgment and retreated to the shadows of the service alley, leaning her heavy frame against the cool brick wall.
She closed her eyes and let the comforting, chaotic sounds of the kitchen wash over her, grounding her in reality.
She might not look like a fragile Italian runway model, but she knew this culture and this world better than any of the people judging her.
Megan wasn’t Italian by blood, but she had been raised in a cramped, humid walk-up apartment in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
Her single mother had worked triple shifts at a local diner just to keep the lights on, leaving Megan in the care of their neighbor.
That neighbor was Mrs. Rosa, a fierce, formidable widow who had immigrated from Castellammare del Golfo, a small, ancient town in Sicily.
Mrs. Rosa had essentially raised the chubby, quiet little girl, feeding her, teaching her, and fiercely protecting her.
But Mrs. Rosa had absolutely refused to learn English, believing it to be a cold, emotionless language.
Instead, she had spoken to Megan exclusively in a heavy, archaic Palermitano Sicilian dialect.
It wasn’t the sanitized, romanticized Italian taught in expensive college courses or spoken by tourists in Rome.
It was a guttural, melodic, street-level language full of old-world idioms, sharp consonants, and deep cultural nuances.
By the time Megan was ten years old, she was completely and utterly fluent in the ancient tongue.
She could cook like an absolute master, navigating a kitchen with the grace of a seasoned chef.
She could curse like a Sicilian sailor, stringing together colorful insults that would make a grown man blush.
She could pray like a Sicilian grandmother, understanding the deep, superstitious roots of the culture.
That language was buried deep in her bones, woven irrevocably into her very identity.
It gave her a fierce, unshakeable core of strength that Craig Thompson and his superficial world could never comprehend.
She rubbed her thick thighs, feeling the dull ache of a long, punishing shift already setting into her muscles.
Out on the dining floor, the atmosphere was growing tighter and more dangerous than a stretched piano wire.
The lights had been dramatically dimmed, casting long, moody shadows across the pristine white tablecloths.
The upbeat jazz music had been turned down to a low, mournful hum that barely covered the nervous silence of the staff.
The regular patrons had been cleared out hours ago, leaving the massive room feeling empty and expectant.
At exactly eight o’clock, the heavy mahogany front doors of Il Sogno Bianco swung open with a heavy thud.
The temperature in the restaurant seemed to plummet by ten degrees, a chilling wave of pure intimidation rolling through the room.
First came the security team; four men built like brick walls fanned out across the empty dining room.
They wore sharply tailored black suits that couldn’t quite hide the obvious bulges of their shoulder holsters.
Their cold, professional eyes scanned the corners, the exits, and the terrified waitstaff who were lined up like soldiers.
Then, Vince Moretti walked in.
He was breathtakingly lethal, a man who commanded the space simply by existing within it.
He was in his mid-thirties, tall and lean, dressed in a charcoal Brioni suit that clung perfectly to his broad, athletic shoulders.
His dark hair was slicked back, and his jawline was sharp enough to cut glass.
But it was his eyes that made Megan’s breath catch in her throat from her hidden vantage point.
They were a dead, fathomless black, devoid of warmth or mercy.
He moved with the terrifying, silent grace of an apex predator that knew it had absolutely no natural enemies in this concrete jungle.
The waitstaff collectively held their breath as he crossed the room.
But the air in the room didn’t truly snap until the man walking directly behind him stepped over the threshold.
Don Leo Moretti.
The old man was shorter than his son, broad-chested, and built like a weathered, unbreakable oak tree.
He leaned heavily on a polished wooden cane topped with a gleaming silver wolf’s head.
Despite his reliance on the cane, there was absolutely nothing frail or weak about him.
He wore a heavy, traditional wool suit, completely ignoring the warm New York evening outside.
A classic fedora rested loosely in his gnarled, scarred hands.
His face was a complex map of deep scars, sun-baked wrinkles, and a lifetime of brutal, uncompromising survival.
His eyes were the exact same fathomless black as Vince’s, but they burned with an ancient, terrifying fury.
The silence in the restaurant was absolute and suffocating.
Craig was trembling so violently that his metal clipboard was audibly rattling against his hip.
Vince gestured smoothly to the prime corner booth, his Italian clipped, formal, and strictly business.
Leo didn’t say a single word as he limped to the booth, his cane striking the marble floor with heavy, ominous thwacks.
He sat down with a heavy sigh, waving away the trembling hands of Heather, the size-zero waitress assigned to their table.
She was frantically attempting to drape a crisp linen napkin across his lap.
Leo growled at her in harsh Italian, ordering her not to touch him.
Heather gasped loudly, stepping back so fast she nearly tripped over her own expensive designer heels.
Megan winced from the shadows of the service alley, knowing instinctively that this dinner was going to be an unmitigated disaster.
The meal officially began, and it quickly devolved into a masterclass in slow-motion agony for everyone involved.
Megan watched carefully as Vince attempted to broker what looked like a high-stakes peace treaty with his father.
Between the two dangerous men sat an older, incredibly nervous-looking man in a cheap suit, acting as their translator.
It became immediately apparent that Leo completely refused to speak standard, modern Italian.
He was speaking entirely in thick, rapid-fire, localized Sicilian dialect.
The terrified translator was sweating profusely, dabbing his shining forehead with a crumpled linen handkerchief.
He was completely missing the subtle nuances and the deep cultural context of the old man’s words.
Megan could hear the tragic mistranslations clearly from twenty feet away.
Leo was speaking in poetic metaphors, utilizing old Castella Marese idioms that the translator was butchering into literal, nonsensical English.
Vince was growing visibly irritated, the tension radiating from his broad shoulders.
He rubbed the bridge of his nose, the heavy gold of his Patek Philippe watch catching the dim, moody lighting.
He snapped at the translator, ordering him to tell his father that the territory in the Bronx was entirely secure.
He insisted that they didn’t need to send a violent message to the Russian syndicate because the situation was already handled.
The trembling translator turned to Leo and stammered out the translation in broken, overly formal Italian.
Leo’s dark eyes narrowed dangerously.
His gnarled hand gripped the silver wolf’s head of his cane with sudden, terrifying strength.
He leaned forward across the table, ignoring the useless translator entirely, and locked eyes directly with his son.
Suddenly, Leo erupted.
His voice boomed through the silent restaurant, a harsh, guttural roar of pure Sicilian rage that rattled the expensive crystal wine glasses.
He slammed his heavy fist onto the oak table.
The bodyguards in the room instantly stiffened, their hands hovering mere inches from their concealed weapons.
Megan understood every single word of the Don’s poetic, deeply insulting reprimand.
He roared in his native tongue, the ancient dialect rolling off his tongue like a violent thunderstorm.
He accused his son of bringing him to a plastic box and feeding him grass and water.
He mocked Vince for surrounding himself with walking skeletons who shook like wet dogs.
He insulted Vince for surrounding himself with fools who couldn’t even speak their mother tongue.
He accused his son of being a boy playing in the mud, stating that he had forgotten the true blood of the island.
Vince leaned forward, his face a terrifying mask of cold, unyielding fury.
He demanded an exact translation from the sweating man caught between them.
The translator whimpered, his face turning completely pale as he stammered out a pathetic, watered-down summary.
He falsely claimed that the Don was simply saying Vince was a boy and that the restaurant was bad.
It was the absolute worst thing he could have possibly said.
It was a complete failure to convey the deep, cultural insult Leo had just delivered.
Leo scoffed in pure, unfiltered disgust and grabbed his cane.
He began to push his heavy frame up from the leather booth, preparing to leave.
Megan knew exactly what this meant.
If Leo walked out of this restaurant, it wasn’t just a ruined dinner or a lost tip.
It was a formal declaration of war between a father and his son.
It was the patriarch officially disowning his son’s American empire.
The tension in the room was so incredibly thick, it felt suffocating.
Craig was hyperventilating in the corner, clutching his chest.
Heather was silently crying behind the bar.
The bodyguards were visibly tensing, preparing for inevitable violence.
Megan didn’t stop to think.
If she had thought about it, the sheer, paralyzing terror of the situation would have kept her glued to the brick wall forever.
But her body moved on pure, unadulterated instinct, fueled by years of watching Mrs. Rosa storm around her kitchen demanding respect.
She pushed her way through the sheer velvet curtains.
Her heavy black shoes clicked loudly and confidently against the polished marble floor.
She didn’t try to shrink herself to appear smaller.
She didn’t try to hide her wide hips or her thick, powerful arms.
She walked with the solid, grounded weight of a woman who knew exactly how to take up space in a room.
As she approached the table, Craig’s eyes widened in absolute horror.
He frantically mouthed for her to stop, looking like he was about to faint on the spot.
One of the massive bodyguards stepped directly into Megan’s path, pressing a heavy hand against her collarbone to physically stop her.
He growled at her to back off.
Megan didn’t even flinch.
She looked the terrifying guard dead in the eye, her soft, round face set in absolute stone.
She gently but firmly swatted his massive hand away from her chest.
The guard was so shocked by the sheer audacity of the chubby waitress that he actually stepped aside in disbelief.
Megan stopped exactly two feet away from the Conti table.
Vince’s head snapped toward her, his black eyes slicing into her like razor-sharp knives.
Leo, halfway out of his seat, paused, staring down his nose at the large woman in the stained apron who had dared to interrupt them.
The entire restaurant collectively held its breath, the silence ringing in everyone’s ears.
Megan squared her broad shoulders, folded her hands casually over her large stomach, and looked directly into Leo’s eyes.
She bypassed standard Italian entirely.
She dropped her voice into the exact rhythmic, guttural Palermitano dialect that had echoed through the halls of her childhood.
She spoke with deep, unwavering respect, her voice carrying a rich, resonant timbre that cut through the tension like a warm knife through butter.
She utilized the exact ancient idiom Leo had just used, proving she understood him perfectly.
She told him that while the wolves in the north might be loud, a wise shepherd knows that the loudest wolves are the ones starving in the winter.
She defended Vince, stating that his son had built a high wall to protect them.
She insisted that the meat on their table was cooked with the fire of the old country, even if the plates looked new.
She firmly but politely told the Don to sit down and not let the cold air in just to spite the warmth of the house.
For three excruciating seconds, nobody in the restaurant breathed.
The terrified translator stared at Megan Cooper with his jaw literally hanging open.
Craig Thompson looked like he was having a coronary event behind the shattered marble bar.
Vince Moretti froze in place.
His dark, deadly eyes slowly dragged away from his father to lock entirely onto the plus-sized waitress who had just interrupted them.
He looked at her soft face, her messy bun, and her wide waist, taking in her absolute lack of fear.
A strange, dangerous spark ignited in his pitch-black gaze.
Don Leo Moretti stood perfectly still, processing the large, unapologetic American woman who had just scolded him using his great-grandfather’s dialect.
Slowly, the deep wrinkles around his eyes crinkled.
A low, rumbling chuckle started deep in his chest.
The sound built until the terrifying mafia don threw his head back and laughed.
The booming sound echoed off the crystal chandeliers.
He slammed his heavy cane onto the floor, his scarred face splitting into a massive grin.
He praised her spirit in flawless Sicilian, demanding that the useless translator be thrown out immediately.
He ordered Megan to bring the wine, refusing to be served by another walking skeleton.
Vince lazily flicked two fingers.
His massive bodyguards immediately dragged the terrified translator out the mahogany front doors.
Megan didn’t flinch as the man was hauled away.
She squared her shoulders, her heavy black shoes planted firmly on the marble floor.
Vince leaned back in his leather seat, his gaze returning to her with intense, consuming calculation.
It wasn’t the disgusted, dismissive look Craig always gave her.
He looked at her heavy curves like he was seeing something priceless that had been hidden in plain sight.
His deep, velvety baritone sent a sudden shiver down Megan’s spine as he asked her name.
She kept her voice steady, refusing to let him see how fast her heart was hammering against her ribs.
A slow, dangerous smirk curled his mouth as he ordered her to pull up a chair.
She didn’t perch nervously on the edge of the booth like the other size-zero waitresses would have.
Megan settled her heavy hips deeply into the seat, letting her weight ground her while Vince watched her every move.
Don Leo commanded her to eat.
Within minutes, the terrified kitchen staff wheeled out a massive feast.
Craig hovered nervously in the background, his pale face glistening with cold sweat as he watched his hidden employee take center stage.
There were steaming platters of rich pastas, roasted marrow bones, and thick steaks dripping with butter.
Megan bypassed Craig’s delicate wine selections, confidently ordering three bottles of a bold Super Tuscan.
As they ate, she became the essential bridge between two generations of ruthless power.
She effortlessly translated Vince’s cold, calculated business metrics into the honor-bound poetry that Leo required.
She spoke of the shipping ports, the union delays, and the brewing tension with Sal Greco, a brutal rival underboss.
She didn’t just translate; she ate with true passion.
Megan dragged crusty bread through the bone marrow, relishing the rich flavors, and washing it down with generous swallows of heavy red wine.
Vince was utterly mesmerized.
He had spent his life surrounded by fragile socialites who starved themselves and treated food like poison.
Megan was lush, undeniable, and unapologetic about her size, her appetite, and her sharp intelligence.
Every time she laughed at one of Leo’s dark jokes, Vince’s gaze darkened with naked, predatory hunger.
He murmured in a low rumble that he had no intention of ever letting her go.
But before Megan could process the sheer gravity of his words, the heavy oak front doors of the restaurant exploded.
The concussive blast of shattering glass and splintering wood blew the massive doors completely off their hinges.
The serene jazz music playing over the speakers was instantly drowned out by the harsh, mechanical roar of automatic gunfire.
Vince roared for them to get down, overturning the massive oak table with a violent heave.
Crystal wine glasses and plates of expensive steak crashed to the marble floor in a chaotic spray.
The room erupted into absolute pandemonium.
Megan hit the floor hard, the breath knocking out of her lungs as plaster dust filled the air.
Above her, the Moretti bodyguards had already drawn their weapons, returning suppressive fire toward the ruined entrance.
Through the thick smoke, Megan saw the attackers.
Five men wearing heavy tactical gear and ski masks were advancing into the dining room.
Sal Greco’s men had tracked them.
Craig screamed from the far corner, diving behind the expensive espresso machine in pure terror.
Heather and the other waitstaff were paralyzed, shrieking as bullets shredded the Italian upholstery and shattered the chandeliers.
Vince yelled for his father, firing his weapon blindly over the edge of the overturned table.
Leo was struggling to move.
The old man’s bad leg had buckled when the table flipped, pinning him dangerously close to the exposed center aisle.
A bullet zipped through the air, tearing a chunk of leather out of the booth mere inches from the Don’s head.
Megan didn’t hesitate.
Adrenaline flooded her system, entirely overriding her fear.
While the thin, delicate waitstaff cowered and screamed, Megan’s size and strength became her greatest weapon.
She crawled fast, her thick thighs pushing powerfully off the slick marble floor.
She reached Leo, grabbing the heavy wool collar of his tailored suit.
She yelled at him in dialect to hold on, her voice cutting through the deafening roar of gunfire.
With a massive surge of strength, she hauled the broad-chested mob boss backward.
She planted her sturdy boots against the floor and dragged him across the aisle, pulling him behind the solid, bulletproof marble of the central bar.
She threw her own soft, heavy body over his, shielding him from the raining debris and ricocheting bullets.
Megan screamed to Vince that she had him.
Vince snapped his head toward her.
Seeing his father safely behind the thick marble, shielded by Megan’s fierce, protective embrace, something feral locked into place behind his dead, black eyes.
He wasn’t just fighting for his father anymore; he was fighting for her.
Vince moved with lethal precision, a terrifying ghost in a bespoke suit.
He vaulted over the overturned table, taking out two of the masked gunmen with flawless headshots before they even realized he had broken cover.
His bodyguards advanced in a coordinated wave of absolute violence that swept the remaining attackers out into the bloody street.
Within ninety seconds, the intense firefight was completely over.
The heavy silence that followed was broken only by the whimpering of the waitstaff and the hiss of a ruptured espresso machine.
One of the bodyguards shouted that the room was clear.
Megan slowly rolled off Leo, her chest heaving as the adrenaline began to recede.
Her hands were trembling as she looked down at the old Don to check if he was unharmed.
Leo looked up at her, his dark eyes wide with genuine awe.
Slowly, he reached up and patted her soft, flushed cheek.
He rasped that he was alive because of a woman with hips wide enough to carry the weight of the world.
He chuckled, calling her a true lioness of the old country.
Heavy footsteps crunched over the broken glass as Vince rounded the bar.
His suit was dusted with white plaster, his gun still loosely gripped in his right hand.
He looked down at his father to ensure he was safe, but his terrifying gaze quickly locked entirely onto Megan.
He reached down, his large, blood-spattered hand gripping her thick forearm.
He pulled her to her feet with effortless strength, hauling her plush, heavy body flush against his hard chest.
His voice was tight as he murmured that she was bleeding.
He reached up his thumb, gently swiping a small cut on her cheekbone caused by flying glass.
His touch was shockingly tender, completely at odds with the brutal violence surrounding them.
Craig crawled out from beneath the far end of the bar, his designer suit ruined and his hair a frantic mess.
He looked at the shattered restaurant, the blood on the floor, and the dead men in the entryway.
He wailed about his restaurant, clutching his head in despair.
Then, Craig pointed a shaking, accusatory finger at Megan.
He screamed that she was fired, calling her a stupid cow and blaming her for bringing the mob’s attention to them.
The air in the room instantly dropped below freezing.
Vince slowly turned his head to look at the terrified manager.
He didn’t yell or raise his weapon.
He simply stared at Craig with a look of such absolute, predatory malice that the man immediately stopped speaking.
The blood drained completely from Craig’s pale face.
Vince’s voice was a soft, silken whisper as he asked Craig to repeat what he had just called her.
Craig swallowed hard, backing up against the ruined wall in sheer panic.
Vince released Megan and took two slow, deliberate steps toward the manager.
He coldly stated that the restaurant was currently valued at four million dollars, but as of this exact second, he was buying it for five.
He informed Craig that his lawyers would send the paperwork to his widow if he ever spoke to Megan like that again.
He ordered the manager out of his sight.
Craig didn’t need to be told twice.
He scrambled over the broken glass and sprinted out the back kitchen doors, leaving his clipboard and his dignity behind forever.
Vince turned back to Megan, the chaos of the ruined room fading away.
He stepped directly into her space, his hands coming to rest possessively on her wide hips.
His long fingers gripped her soft curves, claiming her in front of everyone who remained.
He dropped his voice to a low octave meant only for her ears, revealing that his father was returning to Sicily tomorrow.
He explained that Leo was leaving the Eastern Seaboard entirely in his control.
He murmured that his father gave him his blessing not because of his ledgers or his soldiers, but because of the woman standing beside him.
Megan’s breath hitched as she reminded him that she was just a waitress who lived in a walk-up in Bensonhurst.
Vince pulled her heavy body flush against his, letting her feel the undeniable physical evidence of his burning desire.
He told her that she was done hiding in the shadows, because she was built to rule.
He didn’t wait for her to argue.
Vince brought his mouth down on hers, kissing her with a fierce, consuming heat.
It tasted like red wine, raw danger, and absolute devotion.
Megan melted into him, wrapping her thick arms around his broad shoulders.
She kissed the mafia boss back with all the hidden Sicilian fire she had suppressed her entire life.
Behind them, Don Leo leaned against the shattered bar with a satisfied grin.
He raised a miraculously unbroken glass of heavy red wine toward the ceiling, whispering a quiet toast to the new queen of the empire.
THE END
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