I PULLED A MAFIA BOSS FROM A SINKING YACHT—24 HOURS LATER, HIS BODYGUARD BROUGHT $2 MILLION TO MY DOOR

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“You keep saying that. Blood money.”

“That’s what it is,” he said. “Earned through violence and fear. Maybe if you take it—if you use it to save Danny—it becomes something clean.”

I stared at his hand over mine.

“Keep it in your vault,” I said. “I’m not ready yet. But I will be. Eventually.”

“Okay.”

He did not push.

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