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Chapter 4

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I wanted to tell him I'd already asked the family to take back the villa, and that he needed to return the spare key.

He cut me off by sending Angie a string of voice messages.

Only then did he look up. "You signing it over to Angie really helps us out.

"She promised she'd get the underboss to see us at the banquet."

With that, he pushed his drink over to me without thinking.

Then he looked down and went back to answering Angie.

"Don't look so gloomy.

"When you get back from the South District, we'll do this properly."

I stared at him. "You seem awfully sure I'll come back."

He just smiled without even looking up.

"You've only done a few small jobs for the family.

"A place like that, where you have to fight to stay alive? Without us there, you won't last a week before you come crying back."

Now I understood their real plan.

They didn't want me to stay in the South District forever.

They were waiting for me to break under the brutal conditions there and back out of the deal myself.

That way, the Don would never give me an important job again.

He'd make me pay for it.

By then, I'd have no choice but to hand over the inheritance and connections my father left me and beg them for help.

And they wouldn't think twice about handing everything I had to Angie.

I'd never imagined Michael would one day scheme against me.

Not when we'd grown up together.

Not when I'd loved him for more than 20 years. Yet instead of falling apart, I felt only disgust, and it left me perfectly calm.

When we said goodbye, Michael tried to kiss my cheek.

I silently turned away from the kiss I'd once dreamed of.

Michael looked a little surprised, his mouth half open as if he wanted to say something to break the awkwardness.

In the end, all he said was, "I'll wait for you to come back."

I didn't bother calling him out.

When I got home, I tore both sets of transfer papers to shreds.

Then I threw them in a box along with all the things I hadn't managed to give back.

What my father left me wasn't theirs to give away to impress their new master.

I dropped the box off at the post office.

They looked down on the life my father had given them.

Then I would take all of it back.

Early the next morning, I went to the black market to buy the supplies an assassin needs.

As soon as I entered the alley, I heard someone laughing behind me.

"Well, if it isn't the Leiden family's princess.

"Where are your knights? Don't tell me they ditched you to go fawn over someone else."

"Princess? She threw herself at him and got dumped, and now she's being shipped off to the South District."

A few women from the family blocked my way.

The one in front was Angie's friend.

She looked me up and down and grabbed the pin on my chest.

"I heard Angie asked to borrow this and you just wouldn't give it to her.

"Time for an orphan like you to learn what happens when you cross the underboss's daughter."

With that, she raised her hand to hit me.

I dodged and wrenched her wrist instead.

"What do you think you're doing? My father is a capo in the Leiden family!"

Her voice went shrill.

"Angie was right. You only dare to be this rude because you've got four men protecting you!"

Someone beside me took the chance to shove me hard into the wall.

My forehead split open on impact, and I had to let go.

"Too bad. The people your father worked so hard to leave you all chose Angie.

"I heard you were still clinging to him, and he dumped you after just one day."

They crowded around me, chattering.

I looked up, past them.

Michael and the others were standing not far away.

Rocco was carrying Angie's bag, Vincent was checking her shopping list for her, and Dom had her coat in his arms.

Michael saw me too.

But he only frowned and didn't come over.

In the past, no one in the family would have dared call me the Leiden family's party girl to my face.

If anyone had, Michael would have dragged them out the back door of the bar, beaten them, and made them apologize to me.

Now my forehead was split open and bleeding.

He pretended not to see.

It was Angie who trotted over.

"Stop it, all of you. Linda didn't mean it.

"She's just spoiled."

Her friend put on a look of pity.

"Angie, you're too kind.

"This is the mafia. You should make her see what happens when she turns down the underboss's daughter."

Angie seemed terrified.

She looked helplessly at Michael, her eyes already welling up.

He finally came over, but only to shield Angie behind him.

"Linda, can you stop playing the victim?

"She grew up in the countryside. She's a lot sweeter and more innocent than a woman like you with blood on her hands.

"Using tricks like this to ruin her reputation only makes you look more vicious."

I hadn't realized how tightly I'd clenched my fists until my knuckles turned white.

Before I could speak, someone suddenly ripped the pin off my chest.

The ringleader hurled it to the ground.
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