His silent vow
He hasn't spoken in ten years i am the only woman who can hear him.
My name is Elena Rossi, I'm a sign language interpreter, broke and drowning in my mother's hospital bills. I took a one-night job for $5,000 cash,i didn't know my client was Dante Moretti, the most feared Mafia Don in Chicago.
Dante is deaf,Silent and Dangerous. The world thinks he is broken he is not. He watches everything and he only trusts me to be his voice.
When he signs an order to kill a man, I mistranslated it to save a life now he won't let me leave. If I go he has no voice and If I stay his enemies will come for me.
For six months i must live in his mansion and speak for him. One rule, Don't fall for him.
But he pays my mother's bills. He signs to me like I'm the only person alive. He has been watching me for three years.
Now the FBI wants me to betray him,His rival wants to steal me and Dante the man who never speaks is about to break ten years of silence.
For me.
He doesn't say You are Mine He signs it.
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Chapter: THE CONTRACT AND THE ONE RULEI signed my name on the last line and felt it settle into my bones like a second heartbeat.The pen was heavy and black and expensive, the paper was thick, the words on it were precise and cold. Six months of exclusive interpretation,housing in the east wing of the estate,security at all times, full payment of medical expenses for my mother Maria Rossi at the long term care facility of her choosing, a monthly salary larger than I had earned in two years, and at the bottom a clause in small print that I read three times.Either party may end this agreement early by mutual written consent.I looked up, Dante was watching me from the other side of the desk, Victor had gone, Enzo and Pietro had gone. The lamp had stopped flickering after Pietro disconnected something behind the wall and now the office was steady and warm. We were alone for the first time since the hospital.I signed a question and asked why the clause about early ending had to be mutual. I asked why he did not just let m
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Chapter: THE VOICE THAT HE COULD NOT HEARThe woman inside the bag was talking to a man who could not hear her and she knew it.That was what frightened me most. Agent Hayes had not asked for Dante to listen. She had asked for me to repeat. She had built her trap around the one fact that only a few people in Chicago knew. The Don could not hear his own enemies. He needed a pair of ears and a pair of hands and she had just taken both and placed them in the same hallway.Dante looked at my face he had not heard a single word but he could read the shape of my fear. He lifted his hands and signed a question what is she saying.I did not want to answer my hands felt stiff and clumsy. But the green light kept glowing and the static kept breathing and I understood that I had a choice to make in that hallway. I could lie with my hands and lose him or I could tell him everything and perhaps keep him.I signed it all, i signed that she had greeted him,i signed that she had said she was glad I made it home safely. I signed that she had
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Chapter: THE LISTENER IN MY POCKETThe second wire was still blinking red, and I understood that it had been listening to me longer than I had been listening to myself.Dante saw it a heartbeat after I did,he did not rush but he let go of my hand and crouched beside the small black button on the floor of the community center. He lifted it between two fingers and turned it toward the light,his face did not change,but something happened in his eyes they went dark and flat like water at the bottom of a well.Behind him stood the guard I recognized from the hospital. He was tall and broad through the shoulders with a scar that ran from his left eyebrow down to his cheek, his name was Enzo. I knew that because Sofia had mentioned it once on the phone when she called to welcome me. I had not met her yet she had only told me that Enzo never smiled and never slept.Dante lifted his hands and signed to him. He signed that nobody was to use the main entrance,he signed that every vehicle outside was to be searched,he signed that
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Chapter: The Wire And The LieThe FBI wanted me to betray the man who saved my mother. And the worst part was that I was starting to want to say yes.Agent Rachel Hayes stood in front of me with a small black device in her hand. It was no bigger than a button. It was the kind of device that could record every word and every sign and every secret. She held it out like it was a gift. She said this was my only chance to be free.I backed away until my back hit the whiteboard. My hands were shaking. I said I did not want to wear a wire. I said I was not a criminal. I said I was just an interpreter. I said I had done nothing wrong.Agent Hayes did not look sympathetic. She looked tired. She looked like a woman who had been chasing Dante Moretti for a long time and who was tired of losing. She said Elena you do not understand. Dante Moretti is not a businessman. He is the head of the most dangerous family in Chicago. He has ordered murders. He has ordered beatings. He has made men disappear. And now he has bought you.I
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Chapter: The Message That Deleted ItselfI read the warning twice and then it vanished. And the man who had warned me not to trust Dante was now awake and watching me read it.My phone screen went black. I pressed the button again. I opened my messages. There was nothing there. No unknown number. No warning. No mention of the community center at noon. It was as if I had dreamed it.But I had not dreamed it. My hands were still shaking. My heart was still beating too fast. I could still see the words in my mind. Do not trust him. He did not pay your mother bill out of kindness. He paid it because he needs you alive. If you work for him you will never leave Chicago alive.Dante was awake now. He was sitting up straight in the chair. His eyes were on my face. He had seen me look at my phone. He had seen me go pale. He had seen me hide the phone under my mother blanket like a child caught with something she should not have.He lifted his hands and signed a question. Who was that.I wanted to lie. I wanted to say it was no one. I
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Chapter: The Bill That Was Already PaidThe hospital said my mother was dying. The hospital said I owed eighty four thousand dollars. The hospital was lying about one of those things.I did not remember the car ride to the hospital. I remembered Dante hand on my back. I remembered the cold air hitting my face when we walked outside. I remembered the black car that was waiting at the curb like it had been waiting for us all night. I did not remember getting in. I did not remember giving the driver the address. I did not remember crying.I remembered Dante sitting beside me in silence. He did not try to talk to me. He did not try to sign to me. He just sat there and let me fall apart without asking me to explain myself. That was the kindest thing anyone had done for me in a long time.When we arrived at the hospital the nurses at the front desk looked up and went pale. They did not look pale because of me. They looked pale because of him. Dante walked in like he owned the building. He did not ask for directions. He did not as
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