THE MAFIA BOSS THREW A CUP AT ME – SO I LOOKED HIM IN THE EYE AND SAID SIX WORDS THAT DESTROYED HIS EMPIRE
The coffee cup hit the wall three inches from Emily Carter’s head. It exploded against the faded yellow paint with a crack sharp enough to…
Read moreTHE MAFIA BOSS ASKED ME TO DANCE – I SAID NO, AND THAT REFUSAL EXPOSED THE MAN WHO HUNTED ME
When the most feared man in Chicago held out his hand and asked Emily Carter to dance, every person in the room waited for her…
Read moreTHE PLUS-SIZE ASSISTANT WAS FIRED BY THE MAFIA BOSS – THEN HE DISCOVERED SHE WAS THE ONLY REASON HIS EMPIRE STILL STOOD
“You are fired.” The words struck the Duca Council Chamber like a bullet through glass. For one impossible second, nobody breathed. Not the twelve capos…
Read moreSHE SPENT ONE NIGHT WITH A STRANGER – THEN FOUND OUT HE WAS THE MOST POWERFUL MAFIA BOSS IN CHICAGO
The first thing Marin Delaney felt when she woke was not warmth, but terror. The blanket over her body was too soft. The room around…
Read moreI WALKED INTO A MAFIA BOSS’S OFFICE BEGGING FOR WORK – THEN MY MOTHER’S OLD PHOTO MADE HIM GO PALE
Desperation followed Norah Hayes into the building like a second shadow. It clung to her soaked trench coat, to the cracked blue folder pressed against…
Read moreTHE MAFIA BOSS LAUGHED AT THE CURVY CASHIER IN ITALIAN, THEN SHE ANSWERED IN PERFECT SICILIAN AND EXPOSED THE MAN BETRAYING HIM
The insult was supposed to die at register three. Alessandro Moretti had said it with a faint smile, in a Sicilian dialect so old and…
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