All Chapters of The Mafia Boss’s Silent Bride: Chapter 41 - Chapter 43

Amber’s POVI found the rooftop access door tucked behind a service stairwell, unlocked, mercifully empty, string lights still glowing faintly along the railing from some earlier event. I’d spent nearly ten minutes wandering that hotel looking for somewhere private enough, my heart climbing higher in my chest with every locked door and every server who glanced at me a beat too long, and by the time I found this spot I was almost out of time entirely. The cold hit me the moment I stepped outside, sharp against my bare arms, and I barely registered it, already pulling the phone from my clutch with hands that wouldn’t quite stay steady.Seven-oh-four. Four minutes late, but close enough that I told myself it still counted, still fit the pattern I’d built so carefully over the past week. I dialed before I could second-guess myself, activating the distortion, pressing the phone to my ear while the wind off the city pulled at my hair and dress.He picked up almost immediately, and before I

Nikolai’s POVI spent the entire day treating the two threats as separate problems, the way I should have been doing from the very beginning instead of letting panic collapse them into one indistinguishable danger the night of the gala. I’d barely slept, replaying the rooftop over and over, the confusion in the caller’s voice when I accused them of something they clearly hadn’t done, the raw terror of crossing that rooftop not knowing what I’d find. Sorting the two threats apart felt like the only useful thing I could actually do with that restlessness, so I started early, before the rest of the house had even woken.Yuri joined me in my office not long after sunrise, both of us working through what little evidence we actually had. The kidnapper first. Facial recognition had given us a partial match from the hotel’s security footage, grainy, imperfect, but enough for Yuri’s team to start cross-referencing against known associates of rival families, men with the resources and motive to