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

Vermont with my two nieces. I did not have a choice.”

“Why didn’t you come to me?”

“Because by the time I could have, I was already too far in.”

Marcus laughed once, bitter and empty.

“When the job became the woman and the kid, I tried to slow it. Callaway told me he’d put a man on my sister’s porch first. I made the wrong call. I know I did.”

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