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Full Betrayal Sandro found her in the records room at ten the next morning, and he knew from the doorway that something had broken.The room was small and windowless, lined with steel cabinets, lit by a single hanging lamp. It was where he kept the old files, the ones that did not live on any server. Rocco had spent the early hours pulling contracts Luca had touched, stacking them in neat towers on the metal table. Elena had been working through them since dawn with a cup of cold tea and a legal pad.She was standing now with her back to the door. One of the cabinet drawers hung open. A single sheet of paper trembled in her hand."Elena."She did not turn."I asked Rocco to leave," she said. Her voice was very quiet. "I wanted to read this alone."Sandro's chest went tight. He knew that drawer. He knew the folder at the back of it, and the thin yellowed memo inside. He had meant to burn it a hundred times. He had never been able to."Put it down," he said."No."She turned.Her face
A CONTRACT FROM THE DEVILÂ Â Â Chapter 109
War Lines The council met on Friday, and Elena was not allowed in the room.She sat in the anteroom of the Rossi Tower boardroom on a leather bench that had been designed to be uncomfortable, with Rocco standing at the door and a cup of tea going cold in her hands. Through the thick oak she could hear nothing at first. Then, as the meeting wore on, voices began to carry. Low at first. Then sharp."âtwo chairs empty and you want us to sit and drink wine?""I want you to remember who sits at the head of this table.""A man who lost his consigliere to his own father. A man whose penthouse was breached. A man who keeps the Brooks girl under our roof while Carmine's wife buries her husband."Elena's stomach turned over."Enzo," Sandro said. Quiet. Dangerous. "Choose your next words carefully.""I have chosen them." The voice was gravelly and old. Enzo Falco, she thought. A captain with grey in his beard who had once kissed her hand at the gala and called her signora with a courtesy that h
A CONTRACT FROM THE DEVILÂ Â Â Chapter 108
Hospital Siege Eight vehicles at the east entrance meant one thing to Sandro.It meant they were meant to be seen."Diversion," he said. He was already moving, one hand on the radio, the other closing around Elena's arm. "A real team does not announce itself with eight cars. They are drawing every man to the east side. The actual strike comes from somewhere else.""Where?" Elena asked."Wherever we are not looking." He turned to Rocco. "Roof. Ambulance bay. Service corridors. I want two men on each. Now."Rocco was gone before he finished.Claire stirred in the bed, her lashes fluttering. The IV drip ticked softly. Her face was wan, but her breathing had steadied. Sandro looked at her small hand lying in the white blanket and felt something old and cold uncurl in his chest."We cannot leave her here," Elena said."No. The fourth floor. There is an isolation ward at the end of the east wing, with a steel door and its own air. Dante will take you." He lifted Elena's chin with two finge
A CONTRACT FROM THE DEVILÂ Â Â Chapter 107
Old King Returns Elena woke to an empty bed and the smell of smoke.Gray light leaked through the curtains. Somewhere beyond the bedroom door, men's voices rose and fell in low Italian, and under it the steady beep of a security system cycling back to life. She lay still for a moment, listening, one hand flat on the cool sheet where Sandro had been.Then everything came back at once. The elevator doors. The dark. Claire's small body shaking in her arms.She dressed fast and went to check on her sister first. Claire was asleep in the guest room, curled on her side with the blanket pulled to her chin and her tablet still glowing on the pillow. A guard stood outside the door with a rifle across his chest. He nodded to Elena without a word. She stood in the doorway for a long minute watching the rise and fall of that small chest.Then she went to find her husband.She found him in the study.The ledgers on the hidden shelf had been shoved aside. The bookcase stood open on the empty steel
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Siege The first thing Sandro did was put Elena behind the study wall.He did not ask. He caught her wrist, pulled her down the dark hall past Rocco's men, and thumbed a panel hidden behind a shelf of leather-bound ledgers. The bookcase swung inward on a silent hinge. Behind it lay a narrow steel room with its own air supply, its own lights, and a door that could withstand a rocket."No." Elena twisted in his grip. "Claire. Where is Claire?""On her way.""She is in the safe apartment. She is forty blocks from here.""Not anymore." He met her eyes in the amber flicker of the emergency strips. "When my father stepped out of that elevator, I knew the address was compromised. I messaged Dante from the hall. He is bringing her up the service route now."Her face changed. Shock first. Then something he had no time to examine."You did that while he was talking to me?""I did that the moment I saw his face." He pressed the radio into her palm. "Stay inside. Do not open this door for anyone
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Hard Choice The old man lowered himself onto Sandro's leather sofa as if he had paid for it.Elena stood at the edge of the living room with Sandro's jacket pulled tight around her shoulders and her heart beating in her throat. Her dress was a ruin beneath it. Her hair had come loose. She could still feel the cold of the glass table on her back.Vittorio Rossi did not appear to notice any of it. He hooked the cane over the arm of the sofa, crossed one ankle over the other, and looked around the penthouse with idle approval."You have kept the Pollock," he said. "Good. Your mother hated it.""Do not speak of her," Sandro said.The gun was still in his hand. He had not lowered it. He stood a few feet in front of Elena, one shoulder angled to cover her, his voice so quiet it was almost gentle."How did you get up here?""I own half the people in this building. I merely asked them to remember it." Vittorio smiled. "Put that away, Alessandro. If I had come to kill you, I would not have ru
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The Glass TowerElena stood on the sidewalk across from Rossi Tower, clutching the black business card so tightly the edges bit into her palm. The skyscraper stabbed into the gray New York sky like a blade made of glass and arrogance. People in expensive coats hurried past her, heads down, voices c
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The Debt CollectorElena Brooks wiped the steam from the cracked bathroom mirror and stared at the stranger looking back at her. Dark circles. Tangled braids she hadnât had time to retwist. Twenty-three years old and already exhausted by a life that refused to give her a break.âEllie?â Claireâs sm
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The Point of No ReturnElena barely remembered how she got home. The city lights blurred past the taxi window as her mind replayed every second in Sandroâs office. His dark eyes tracing her body, the heat of his fingers brushing her neck, the way her traitorous body had responded with slick heat be
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The Devil HimselfThe double doors opened and the air in the office seemed to thicken.Alessandro Rossi stepped inside like he owned the oxygen itself. He was taller than she expected. Easily over six feet with broad shoulders that filled out his perfectly tailored black suit. The fabric looked sof
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