Chapter 68: Darkening."You're changing the conversation. She's better now," she tells me."That's good," I sigh in relief. "Just check up on her from time to time.""I will," she warns me. "Stop drinking.""Yeah, yeah," I say gently. "Go to bed, Mamma Lia.""You too," she tells me.I hung up and finished my scotch.Grabbing my laptop, I sit down with a copy of the flash drive that was made to self-destruct if the wrong password was inputted more than once.It was like whoever was doing this had the drive. No one knows about the drive, and no one will think of arranging the books on my shelf in the order of the password, not after the rule that my bookshelves remain untouched.I check in on the current footage of the secret room, and the drive's box was still in place. I had to make sure of it.I stayed up all night making calls and sending messages to everyone, every Don, politician, Minister, crime boss whose favor my father and I have earned over the years. I would be nothing but a
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