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Chapter 72

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Chapter Seventy Two

Valerio’s POV

200,000 thousand dollars is like 20bucks to me but I can’t take this issue lightly because if I let this slide. The discipline I instilled in my men will waver. They know me as monster , a beast and that’s who I am continuing to be.

I stood there, hands in my pockets, staring at the girl kneeling on the cold concrete floor of the holding cell. Elena. Small, shaking, soaked in tears

and humiliation, a fragile thing folded in on herself.

And still… the money was gone. Two hundred thousand dollars. Cash. From my project. My name. My investment.

Her voice echoed again in my ears.

“I swear I did not steal it.”

But I had heard that sentence too many times in my life. Crooks always swore innocence. Thieves always cried. Liars always knelt.

And fools always believed them.

I was not a fool.

I pressed my tongue to the inside of my cheek and inhaled sharply, trying to swallow the frustration that had been piling on me since morning. Everything about this pro
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