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CAMI

NOW

IT SEEMED IMPOSSIBLE TO ME, but Father hadn’t changed the safe combination since I’d left.

Maybe if he’d known I knew it by heart, then he’d have changed it, but as it was, I figured there was no better time than now to grab the necklace that Inessa coveted from Mama’s collection, one that her husband, Eoghan, had requested I steal for him.

Objects meant nothing to me. I’d given everything up the first time I’d run away from home, heading for New Jersey where I’d heard chatter of a biker who killed men who abused children.

In my father’s line of work, as the Pakhan of the Russian Brat