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Chapter 23: A Promise Made In Blood

Author: Mia Kent
last update Last Updated: 2025-03-20 03:57:21

AIDEN'S POV

“Where’d you hurt her, Kenneth?” I asked the man hanging in front of me, my eyes level with his stomach. He flinched, realizing how close I was. Neither of them would snitch on me. Crossing Daniel Sterling wasn’t something people in Boston did. And those dumb enough to try didn’t live to tell the story. Even if Vory and his muscle decided to talk to the feds, I had half the city’s judges in my pocket.

“I…I…”

"Her eye?" I asked calmly. "Yes, I remember my fiancée had a bad black eye."

I swung the poker at his face, hitting him above the nose. The hot metal sizzled against the burlap, burning into his skin. He let out a wild scream, twisting like a trapped animal.

"I also remember you hit her cheek." I slammed the poker against his cheek. "And her brow, ribs and knees."

I beat Kenneth while Daniel held Vory’s head underwater in his own bathtub. Ten minutes later, when both wannabe gangsters were barely conscious, Daniel threw a towel onto the floor. I wiped th
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