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Chapter 1

I ith a start,sure I was still safe I wasn’t sure whether I oken up by the plane’s turbulence, or h the sweat that accuave me the answer

It was the nightmare

Taking in a deep breath, I tried calht Even thousands of feet up in the air, I felt like a hunted ani I’d seen, everything that was going on, and everything that resulted fro to be easy

In fact, it’s going to be pretty daht to myself

Blinking back the tears, I exhaled and shook outI needed was to have a panic attack so Atlantic Ocean

Beneath the body of the plane was nothing but dark blue water for as far as the eye could see There was not a cloud in the sky, and the sun was just beginning to set on the horizon It was hard to admire a scene so tranquil when I couldn’t feel that same peace inside

I like ruined pieces of a fil of other things The night played on in ardless…

I orking another late night at the hotel, filling in for Rosita so that she could help watch her grandchildren It was the least I could do after Rosita had helped me out so many times before The top level of the hotel was specifically reserved for its higher-paying clientele—and erous people were roareement to keep quiet and never make eye contact, which probably saved our necks more times than I could count

While cleaning one of the last roo going on inside another room across the hall This wasn’t too common, but I was smart and had learned toturned to shouting, I looked to the barely-used walkie-talkie on my cart and wondered whether I should radio in for security or not

But I never got the chance

The next thing I knew, the door to that room flew open, and out strolled soirl froelo Verdicci

Angelo ran the city’s underground with an iron fist, probably hoping to go down in history as one of the roughest heads of the Mafia there ever was When he ca ht then and there

I gotta hurry up and finish school so I can get away fro he would continue walking down the hall without looking back I noticed he didn’t have his usual slew of beefy bodyguards When you’re the crierous cities in the world, you don’t fly solo anywhere…

Which ht have been the reason it was so easy for the other elo in the back of the head