SHE PRETENDED TO BE A BAD GIRL TO ESCAPE A BLIND DATE — BUT THE MAFIA BOSS SAW THROUGH HER IN MINUTES

looked at Lenora.

“You brought yourself back,” she said.

“Barely.”

“Barely counts.”

The surgery took too long.

Everything takes too long when someone you are not ready to care about is behind a closed door with blood in his body and your name still half-shaped in his mouth.

When Lenora was finally allowed into the room, Silven was awake, pale, stitched, continue reading …