PREGNANT CASHIER’S HUSBAND DESTROYED HER PHONE SO SHE COULDN’T CALL FOR HELP—HE HAD NO IDEA A MAFIA BOSS WAS WATCHING FROM AISLE THREE

do and what I will do are not the same thing. Consider that mercy.”

For the first time, Derek began to cry.

Not because he felt remorse.

Men like Derek rarely cried from remorse.

He cried because consequences had finally found him.

“Please,” he whispered. “I’ll leave town.”

“You will turn yourself in for the outstanding warrant in Cook County.”

Derek froze.continue reading …