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

was always the plan.”

“What plan?” Lenora asked.

He did not dodge.

“To use the ledger to cut Vice’s protection, pressure the names above him, make his people less loyal than they are afraid. If that fails, I remove him another way.”

He said it so plainly even Moren stared.

Lenora was beginning to understand his quiet was never softness.

It was structure.continue reading …