SHE PRETENDED TO BE A BAD GIRL TO ESCAPE A BLIND DATE — BUT THE MAFIA BOSS SAW THROUGH HER IN MINUTES

of authority.

It was not theatrical.

It was worse.

It was ordinary.

“Your cousin told you my name,” Silven said. “What else?”

Lenora thought of June’s phone call from three nights earlier while she stripped roses in the back room after closing.

“He’s older than the boys Kora would set you up with,” June had said. “Stable. Discreet. Not needy. He has real continue reading …