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

the alley. No entry yet.”

Silven looked at Lenora.

“You left on time.”

The sentence should not have brought relief.

It did.

Relief and terror together, because it meant leaving had probably kept her mother and daughter from hearing strangers in the back stairwell by one thin hour.

“What do they want?” Moren called weakly from the other room.

Silven pressed continue reading …