My Ruthless Mafia Saviour
His reflection stared back at him faintly in the window glass, unreadable, controlled, the same face he showed to everyone, even now, even with his heart pounding harder than it had in longer than he could remember.
He thought of every year he had spent chasing shadows, every false lead that dissolved into nothing the moment he got close enough to touch it, every quiet, sleepless night spent turning the same unanswered questions over and over until they wore smooth from repetition. He had built an empire out of control, out of certainty, out of never once letting the ground shift beneath him without already knowing which way to step.
This was the one place his control had never reached.
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