THE LITTLE GIRL ASKED TO SIT WITH A STRANGER—BUT HER MOTHER NEVER EXPECTED THE MAFIA BOSS TO RECOGNIZE HER FACE

across the table and closed her hand around his wrist.

“Damen, do not kill him.”

He stopped.

He looked at her hand as if it were the strangest thing in the room.

“Why not?”

“Because if you kill him, you never get out of that world. You become the man who killed somebody in Lily’s eyes, even if she never knows the details. There is a line you cross, and continue reading …