THE MAFIA BOSS WALKED INTO THE HOSPITAL WITH HIS NEW LOVER-THEN FROZE WHEN HE SAW THE WOMAN HE ABANDONED DYING WITH HIS CHILD

don’t belong in this world.”

Then he had put on his jacket and walked away.

He called it protection.

She called it abandonment.

And now she was here.

Pregnant.

Dying.

His mind reacted the way men like him trained themselves to react under pressure: it calculated.

Nine months.

The apartment behind the club.

The whiskey.

The silence.

The final night.

The way she continue reading …