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Chapter 10: Conflicts and Control
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2026-06-19 00:54:20
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The headbutt is an epic fail. I don't end up connecting my head to the root of his neck like the self-defense class taught. Because of our difference in height, my head only reaches somewhere around the middle of his chest, and that's where my strike lands.The impact is brutal.Mostly for me.I feel it connect—the solid, ugly crack echoes through my skull against the firmness of his chest. Sharp pain explodes behind my eyes even as I do a quick prayer that I don't suffer a concussion. But there is victory because, for one exhilarating second, his grip loosens.I don't even take a moment to celebrate my win.I make for an escape, fighting through the pain that is trying to slow me down, I run for it.I think I have done it.I may actually escape this nightmare.I am finally free.But merely a few seconds into my run, firm hands find me, stopping me before I can complete my next full step.I almost go paralyzed with fear and shock when his fingers close around my arms. I wince at the p
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I crane my head to look at the car that just parked behind us. The officer's door swings open. I watch the policeman unfold from the vehicle.He is a huge man, bigger than Massimo. He is chubbier and he looks way older. He seems strangely very happy. His partner remains inside the car. I can hear the faint crackle of a radio drifting out from behind. I realise it's the most ordinary sound I have heard in hours.As the officer draws nearer the question leers even louder and my hands begin to shake like leaves being swatted by strong wind.Are you really going to report him to the police?Do you think you have it in you to send a man who may have just saved you to jail?I clench my hands by my side. It doesn’t matter what he did for me previously. I shouldn’t even care anymore that he had walked into that room and pulled me out of the worst night of my life. He tried to abduct me too.Besides what did he mean by “my vultures”?I don't care anymore, I tell myself. I just want to go home.
THE MAFIA'S JEWEL Chapter 10: Conflicts and Control
Elena's POVHis voice is so deep.Dreamy deep.Smooth and velvety, yet commanding.On a good day, listening to that voice would send shivers racing through my body, a lot of things about him will send thrills down my body. But now isn't a good day. Still, I can feel something coursing through me. Right now, he is fighting. He fights like a god. The way he moves, the precision with which he hits, the dexterity with which he strikes, there is no clumsiness in his fight, not even when he is attacked, not even when he is outnumbered. He makes combat look so sexy. He has my attackers running in a frenzy, the men who hurt me suddenly run helter-skelter, he gets them all, defeats them all. He reaches for me. He is really tall and insanely handsome. His body is so finely toned I can't believe someone gave birth to this work of art.It's unfair that he exists in the same world as ordinary people… like me. Everything about him screams exquisite. It also screams danger. He feels like a predato
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