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The Don’s Wife, The Godfather’s Heir의 모든 챕터: 챕터 1 - 챕터 7

7 챕터

The wrong man

Aziza had rehearsed three ways to introduce herself to Daniel Asherway.None involved being dragged out of his casino, but the guard watching her from the bottom of the stairs seemed willing to improvise.“Don’t look at him,” Rebecca said in her ear.“Which one?”“The large one deciding whether you’re trouble.”“He has good instincts.”“Aziza.”“I’m walking.”She continued down the staircase, one hand resting on the rail. The midnight-blue dress had seemed like a sensible choice in the fitting room. Now the narrow skirt restricted her stride, the heels pinched, and she could feel every eye that followed her across the Grand Venetian.At least nobody could see the weapons beneath the silk.Below her, a woman in a silver dress laughed as a dealer pushed a stack of chips towards her. A waiter passed with champagne. Somewhere near the bar, a pianist was playing a song Aziza recognised but couldn’t name.Ordinary people having an expensive evening.She hoped they would all get

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The price of a lie

Daniel caught her wrist before she could reach him.Then the first shot struck the table.His grip changed. He pulled her down as Mathew shoved the table onto its side, sending plates, glasses and a bottle of whisky crashing to the floor.Glass fell around them.Aziza covered her head. Something struck her shoulder, small and sharp. Across the room, a woman screamed for someone called Peter.The piano stopped.“Stay down,” Daniel said.He had a gun in his hand now. Lilian was already at the edge of the overturned table, shouting into her phone.“Close the gaming floor. Get the guests out through the kitchens.”Another burst of gunfire swallowed whatever answer she received.Aziza looked towards the main staircase. People were running in both directions, colliding, falling. A waiter crouched behind the bar with both hands pressed to his face.Her own phone was still with the guard.She couldn’t see him.“Aziza.” Rebecca’s voice was steady in her ear. Too steady. “Are you h

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The woman who stayed

Daniel felt her hand go slack in his.“Aziza.”Her eyes were closed.He pressed harder against her shoulder. Blood worked between his fingers, warm despite the cold water falling from the sprinklers.“Mathew!”“Car’s coming round.”“She needs a doctor.”“I’ve called ahead.”Lilian dropped beside him and pressed a folded cloth into his hand.“Use this.”He couldn’t tell where she had found it. A tablecloth, perhaps. White, until he pushed it against the wound.“Did you get him?” he asked.“The man on the balcony? Yes.”Daniel looked down at Aziza.She had seen the gunman before any of them. She had tried to warn him.He had been too busy demanding answers.“Daniel.” Lilian touched his arm. “We have to move.”He nodded and gathered Aziza against him, keeping the cloth in place as best he could. Her head fell against his shoulder.She had been arguing with him a moment ago.Now she didn’t react when he stood.“Clear the way,” he said.Mathew went ahead of them. Lilia

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An unreasonable offer

Aziza woke with a dry mouth and the unpleasant certainty that someone was watching her.She kept her eyes closed.There was a soft, regular beeping nearby. Her left shoulder hurt. When she tried to shift it, the pain sharpened enough to stop her.Hospital.The casino came back in pieces. Broken glass. A woman in silver. Daniel turning away from her just as she saw the man on the balcony.She had been shot.“You can stop pretending.”Daniel.Of course.She opened her eyes.He sat beside the bed in a clean shirt, his sleeves rolled up. There was a dressing near his temple. He looked tired, though the way he watched her suggested he had enough energy left to be difficult.“I wasn’t pretending.”Her voice sounded rough.“You frowned when I moved the chair.”“Perhaps it’s an irritating chair.”He reached for a cup on the bedside table.“Water?”She nodded.He helped her lift her head. The movement hurt, and she caught his wrist before she could stop herself.He paused.

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His Terms

Aziza waited for him to laugh.Daniel waited for her answer.The monitor beside the bed continued its steady beeping, making the silence between them even more uncomfortable.“No,” she said.He leaned back in his chair.“You could think about it.”“I did. No.”“For half a second.”“It was enough.”He picked up his coffee, discovered it was empty and set it down again.Aziza watched him. He appeared perfectly serious. That was the worst part.“You don’t know me,” she said.“You keep telling me that.”“Because you keep making decisions that suggest you’ve forgotten.”“I know enough to make an offer.”“Based on what? The shooting? Your doctor should check you for a head injury.”His gaze flicked to the dressing near his temple.“He already did.”“Ask him to check again.”This time Daniel smiled.Aziza found it deeply inconvenient that she noticed.“You came to me for an alliance,” he said.“Between companies.”“Companies change owners. Agreements end.”“So do marr

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Meeting his mother

His Mother’s HouseThe door shook again.Lilian moved the visitor’s chair out of the way and glanced towards a second door beside the washroom.“Does that connect to the next room?”“Treatment room,” Daniel said.“Let’s hope it’s empty.”She opened it and looked through.Aziza tried to follow, but her feet barely moved. The floor seemed much farther away than it should have been.Daniel looked down at her.“This is going to hurt.”“That’s a terrible thing to say to someone you’ve just proposed to.”He lifted her before she could object.Pain caught her breath. She gripped his shirt with her good hand and waited for the room to stop moving.“Sorry,” he said.She would have preferred not to hear how much he meant it.Lilian led them through the adjoining room. Behind them, the first door gave way with a crash.Daniel kept walking.Aziza looked over his shoulder, but all she could see was the doorway they had just left.There was shouting. Another shot.She tightened her grip.“Mathew,”

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The Part He Hadn’t Mentioned

The lift doors closed on Melanie’s expression.Aziza let her head fall back against the chair.“You could have warned her,” she said.Daniel stood behind her, one hand resting on the handle.“Would it have helped?”“It might have given her time to rehearse.”The nurse made a small noise behind them.Daniel glanced at her. She suddenly became very interested in the medical bag on her lap.“She’s concerned,” he said.“So is my doctor. He managed it without calling me a suspicious woman in a hospital gown.”“She didn’t mention the gown.”“Her face did.”The doors opened.Aziza straightened as they entered the upstairs corridor. She couldn’t help looking at the doors, the windows at either end, the position of the stairs.Habit.Daniel noticed.Of course he did.“You’re safe here.”“You said that at the clinic.”He stopped walking for a moment.She regretted the remark, though it was true.“I intend to do better,” he said.Then he pushed the chair towards a set of double doors.The bedroo

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