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

a very valuable book,” he said.

Lenora laughed through tears she had given up pretending not to have.

“You do not get to flirt after surgery.”

“I wasn’t flirting.”

“No?”

His thumb rested near the corner of her mouth.

“I was complaining.”

The days that followed moved more slowly than fear and blood had allowed.

Vice’s death did not fix the city, but it cut continue reading …