Chapter 134 - mafia

Stella

I inhaled wavering breath and moved with him farther from innocence's garden gates.

Now we walked hand and crimson hand toward unknown lawless roads my beloved long traveled directed by necessity and ruthlessness haunting his princely veneer\...

An elevator descended much further than the penthouse normally reached after passing several secured checkpoints manned by more armed guards who nodded respectfully seeing Lawrence.

My breath grew increasingly short not daring to meet his expressionless face during rapid plunging into subterranean levels clearly off public grids and oversight.

The doors finally whispered open onto a dimly lit corridor of heavy doors spaced at intervals.

I heard muffled sounds like metallic impacts and grunts echoing weirdly against concrete walls otherwise sealed tight.

My heart raced erratically but we continued forward doggedly past shadowy blank doorways toward the larger reinforced set of double doors at the very end somehow pulsing with menace