Enzo: Turned To The Mafia's Mistress

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footsteps thundered again

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shin, staining the rip

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sound of her pursuers

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ted, arguing over something trivial,

elt like her luck

ned as she forced h

in the distance-a flicker of ho

test, but she pushed on,

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nd she collapsed ont

hummed as it came to an abrupt stop,

ttorio's sharp, piercin

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from Enzo had him unbuckling his s

rising and falling rapidly as sh

utiously, his footsteps

Matteo crouched down

, the sound of approaching f

shadows, their expressions

en growled, his eyes narro

d, his eyes narrow

car, watched the exchange

owed as he too

Alessia's battered appearance tol

ce was tense as he gl

d out, his imposing frame casting a

nd a faint scar ran from the side of his neck down to h

Enzo's voice was calm but

nt, their confidence waveri

e of them said, though his voi

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off, his tone sharp. "Then

before one of them lunged forwa

tack with ease, his mov

wisting it sharply until the k

zo dislocated the man's shoulder

pting another attacker with a

gasping for air, but

collar and slammed him a

rethinking his choices. Enzo no

them," he said, his voi

d charged, but Enz

he jaw sent him spr

tes, the fi

ed, scrambled to their feet and

off invisible dust as he turned

body still trembling a

, his tone firm. "G

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ped. His gaze softened

so fragile,

y was, he couldn'

Alessia into his arms and placing

sharp eyes scanning her face as

but different thought

what had she got