All Chapters of Mafia Blood Ties: Between Brothers : Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

ONE YEAR EARLIERVERAI stirred, my body aching with exhaustion weighing me down like a heavy chain. The room was too bright and unfamiliar, and I felt a rush of panic before it hit me. I was in the hospital and had just given birth.A wave of emotion washed over me, and I turned my head, expecting to see my baby nearby. But the crib was empty.My breath hitched, and my arms instinctively reached out to search, but before I could call for help, a low voice drifted through the room.“She just had the baby. This is the best time to do it. Don’t give me that crap! I want this freaking baby gone... and I don’t have time to wait for tomorrow,” someone said. “If my father got word of this, everything would go to shit!” he added, and just then, I caught a glimpse of him, and froze: Logan.He was going to take my baby away. Just then, he spoke again, telling the person that the next day would be fine, but they needed to come in the morning, and that he would give me sleeping pills to keep me

LOGANMy father rattled off updates about the overseas deal on the other end of the line, and I was only half listening, uninterested. I had already said my piece and suggested how to deal with the Smiths, but he preferred to take the long route and tolerate the disrespect as usual. Sometimes I wondered how he got to where he was.Reclining in my seat, I scrolled through a document on my tablet with my free hand when there was a knock on the door. Looking up, I invited the person inside, and Stephen walked in, followed by her.“Dad, I have to go. Talk to you later," I muttered into the phone before pulling it away from my ear. Stephen cleared his throat as my gaze returned to him. "Sir, Ms. Vera asked if she could help with your dinner tonight." I blinked. “She what?” She stepped forward, clearly nervous, hands clasped before her.“I—I just thought maybe I could help. As a thank you. For… for taking me in and letting me stay here.” I stared at her, unable to conceal my surprise.A few

VERALorna's voice snapped me out of my haze, and I jolted upright, blinking at the window, trying to remember where I was. I’d been dozing off and realized we had arrived at the halfway point, where she said she would drop me. But the car didn’t stop or slow down. I apologized for not hearing her words and asked her to repeat herself.“You didn’t say where downtown you wanted to go,” she said, and panic hit me. I hadn't planned that far in advance. I couldn’t tell her the harbor, I didn’t know if that would raise more questions, and I sure as hell couldn’t say I was running for my life and smuggling my baby out of the city. My mind scrambled."The factory," I blurted, referring to an old textile factory near the harbor. My voice cracked at the end, and I winced because I sounded unsure.“The one by the dock?” Lorna repeated, doubt thick in her tone. “That place hasn’t been in operation for years.” I swallowed hard. I could feel her suspicion growing like fog in the car. She could alr

CAMILOI despised him for what he had put her through. I had never liked him before, but now I despised him. There was always something about him that I couldn't shake, but she loved him, so I had to let it go. Plus, I was tired of fighting with her. I saw how badly it hurt her.Camila and I lost our mother at birth. Our grandparents raised us, and our grandmother passed away when we were eight. From there, our grandfather raised us all on his own, and I had always tried to look out for my sister, even if she despised me for it."We are here," Pedro, my right-hand man, said, snapping me out of my reverie, just as the car came to a stop. The driver exited the vehicle and opened the door. Stepping out, I extended my hand to assist my sister, and we made our way to the casino's entrance, with Pedro close behind us and the rest of our men following him.When we stepped inside the casino, the floor was already buzzing with cards flipping, chips clinking, and dice hitting felt. But the seco

MEANWHILE BACK AT VERA'S HOME“Dammit! I don’t believe this! How far could a girl with an infant travel in the middle of the night? Bloody incompetent... the lot of them!” Francois, Vera's father, threw his phone on the table, frustration rising to the surface and about to boil over. "What the hell have I done?!""Honey, please calm down; they will find her," Margot, his wife and Vera's stepmother, said quietly from across the room. But how could he be calm when he had no idea where his little girl was? "When?! Who knows where she is or what’s happening to her right now?! Fuck! Despite my strict instructions to keep that damn baby away from her for this exact reason, they gave it to her!”He fired that nurse immediately after arriving at the hospital and learning that Vera had left with her baby. Nothing was said to him about Logan or his accompanying men. The nurse who had allowed Logan inside was paid by Logan's people to keep his visit between them. So she only informed Francois th