The Mafia's Forced Bride
The warehouse doors hang half open, creaking in the wind, the interior dark and shadowed, the air thick with the smell of old motor oil and mildew.
I step inside, and Clara steps out from behind a stack of rusted metal drums to meet me. She is no longer wearing the mousy brown wig and plain clothes she used in the hospital room. Her hair is pulled back in a sleek ponytail, her clothes sharp and tailored, a small pistol holstered loose at her hip. The scar on her eyebrow pulls when she smirks, cold and confident, like she already has every piece of this won.
“Where are the keys?” She does not waste time on pleasantries. She holds out one hand, expectant, like I am a clerk handing over a packa