EDEN."I swear the car tumbled down the hill,” I muttered.Silence settled in the room as I recounted Nicholas’s accident. I was the one in the car just behind him and I had seen his car fall off the side of the road before leaving him for dead."But he's still very much alive, isn't he?" A dark, trembling voice drew from behind the desk, his chair facing the opposite direction. I pushed a hard lump down my throat. He was right—somehow, Nicholas had survived for the nth time."This should send a warning," I reiterated, which wasn’t in the original plan but I could see my life was very much up in the air. "I don't want a fucking warning. I want him fucking dead!" The mafia lord’s voice thundered and I squeezed my eyes shut. “That is what I asked of you the last time you were here…I don't give warnings twice, Nicholas has been warned and so have you,”“It's the end of the week and that bastard is still alive." He grunted, standing up while the sound of sharpening knives filled the air.
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