Eve.I stepped on the gas, speeding past the three cars crowding me like vultures. Fuck Arseny’s men. If this wasn’t my own damn banquet tonight, I would’ve stopped and dealt with these bastards myself. This was the third assassination attempt this month.The game of cat and mouse amused me, though. Some days I was the cat, hunting Arseny and his crew, tonight, I was the mouse running late for my own crowning.The real trouble I stirred was turning 18. They wanted me eliminated before I could be named heir, a woman ruling the Waldorf empire? Unthinkable to most.Dad had warned me to stay indoors, but I needed air because the constant anticipation was suffocating. There would be opposition tonight, whispers that a woman couldn’t run a gang, let alone a mafia empire.Those were nothing but noise to my ears. Nonetheless, the one person I truly worried about was my father’s brother, pretty sure I’d never met him , but his reputation preceded him: the bloodthirsty, bloody devil with the E
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