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

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Three days later, Walter delivered the file by hand.

One thin manila envelope.

No email.

No copy.

Damen opened it alone in the library.

Clara Whitmore.

Twenty-eight.

Registered nurse at Carney Community Hospital.

Single mother.

One daughter.

Lily Whitmore.

Date of birth: March 14, seven years earlier.

Damen did not want to do the arithmetic.

He did it anyway.

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