LOGINIn my past life, I walked away from an invitation to the elite Academy just to take the fall for Luca. He held my hand, swearing he’d get me out. Swearing he’d keep me safe for the rest of my life. Instead, I rotted in a cell until I died. While I was bleeding out on the cold floor, Luca was marrying the Don’s daughter, living the high life. When I opened my eyes, I was back. Luca was sixteen again, face pale as a sheet, shoving a bloody gun into my hands. "Elena, you're a lifesaver." I slapped the piece away. "Dream on. I ain't taking the rap for you this time."
View MoreIt was a one-sided massacre.All the cartel guys and the thugs Tony hired were no match for my mother's well-trained private security. When the gunfire stopped, the air hung thick with the smell of blood.Tony and Luca didn't die. My mother said death would be too kind for them.I watched them get zipped into body bags with my own eyes, but that was just the beginning.They were being shipped off to a private prison in Siberia.The maximum-security wing of the "Black Dolphin".No light, no sound, just endless hard labor and forty-below-zero cold.They'd spend the rest of their miserable lives there."I want them to regret being born every single second," she said.My mother took off her gloves and gently touched my face.Her hands were rough, but so warm they brought tears to my eyes.She told me she'd faked her death by cutting off a finger because she'd discovered a plot within the family's upper ranks to collude with enemies and purge dissenters.To keep me, her young daughter, from
Over the next week, New York's underworld was rocked.At the graduation ball, Luca was put under house arrest for allegedly trying to murder the Leona family heir.Word was Sofia caught him red-handed, spiking his wine, and had him dragged off to a holding cell.The Godfather was furious. He unleashed the family's full force, hunting down his associates.Including Tony, who had leaked info to Luca and helped him buy the poison.And Tony, to save his own skin, went completely off the deep end.He sent me a message.A picture of my mother when she was younger, an abandoned dock warehouse in the background."Want the traitor? Come alone. No tricks, or you're picking up your mother in a body bag."I knew it was a trap, but I had to go.Midnight at the abandoned docks, the air thick with the salty smell of the sea.Inside the warehouse, the lights were dim.Tony, his arm still bandaged, was being held by a bunch of heavily armed Mexican cartel thugs. Seeing me, he yelled,"I brought her! Yo
Sofia was silent on the other end for a full minute after listening to the recording.Only her ragged breathing gave away her rage."I get it," she said, her voice no longer shaking. It was the cold calm of a Godfather's heir."Should I tell your father about this?"Sofia let out a bitter chuckle on the phone."It's no use, Elena. I have to handle this myself.""My father always believed only a son could restore the family's glory... Luca just filled that void. He's ruthless, exactly what my dad needs.""...Before this, I was thinking, since my father doesn't think highly of me, I'd use Luca and then take his power away. It would be the same.""But now, I need to rethink things.""The graduation ball is next week. I'm going to prove, in front of everyone, that I'm stronger than Luca.""But you need to be careful. Luca found out about your mother's identity and leaked it to the family. I stalled them for a while, saying you were with me. My family's people just left my place, and now th
"Drop it!"I stepped out of the shadows, roaring at him.Tony jumped, almost dropping his phone.Then he saw it was me and flashed a mouth full of yellow teeth:"Well, look what the cat dragged in. Back from the dead? Perfect timing. That psycho butcher is still offering a price for your head.Gonna get a good price this time."He thought I was still that little girl he used to beat and yell at, the one who’d just cry in the corner.When he reached out to grab my hair, I didn't flinch.The second his hand was about to touch me, I grabbed his wrist and twisted, using the fighting skills I’d picked up at the academy over the last six months.Crack.The sharp snap of bone breaking, mixed with his scream, was ear-splitting in the cramped room."Ah! My hand! You crazy bitch!"I kicked him in the knee, sending him crashing to the ground, then pinned him hard against the greasy floor.I snatched a steak knife from the table.Amidst his screams, I snatched back the communicator."Listen close,






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