Marked by the Mafia devil’s heir
His eyes didn't open, but his jaw worked, his lips moving slightly as if he were trying to find the words to argue with me through the drug-induced sleep.
I leaned my back against the brick wall, my bare, mud-stained feet resting against the cold floorboards. The midnight deadline had passed. My father was somewhere in the fog, hunting for a ledger that could destroy the city. Silas De Luca was fleeing toward the border. And I was sitting in a back-alley vet clinic, guarding a mafia heir who had promised to lock me in a vault.