The Runaway Sister's Abandoned Mafia Heir

tal and fled the country. The father was Dante,

r skins. But I refused to cower. I took the baby straight to

I paced my rundown apartment with a sick infant, spending my last saving

the boy and placed us under his ultimate prote

hetic weeping act

st so scared," my sister sobbed, d

to dump the baby on me so she could escape. Now, seeing D

g me to quietly hand over the child I had saved.

ted me, and they und

oss, I calmly exposed their tre

I was claim

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re of my phone slashed through the absolute dark of my b

my stomach, forcing a hard swallow: my sister had just aba

e, the untouchable

, final: hide the child, or non

e sender already knew the child existed, already knew my name, already knew which

name provided. The dark web results loaded w

in a single night-for the sole offense of hijacking one of his shipping containers. With a signat

hten inward, forcing

e. She had act

my palm, signaled another intrusion. T

mbling slightly against th

a thin, tearing shriek through the receiver. "Serena is on a flight to Vancou

heavy disgust wa

save her skin?" I asked, my voi

have Serena killed if he learns she tried to entrap him. You wi

l, unable to ut

. Rosa had always favored Serena, treating me as little more than a

e of credit. This was a human life. This was the

ice pressing down on me. Hide, and live in terror. Or walk str

Tonight, I would become

doors of the maternity ward. I had stopped at an all-night pharmacy on the way, spending the last of my meager savings on a single

wn a silent corridor to

y tiny. His fists were curled tight against h

wn of his cheek. He stirred, making a quiet sound that sent a pang thro

peatedly, only to be met by the flat, automated tone of a d

e had already scrubbed her digital footprint and dissolve

to hide him in my rundown apartment and li

to be born into this world of sudden viol

ile body and lifted him into my a

udible over the hum of the fluorescent lights. "If they want you, I will walk strai

to make-and the clock was