THE MAFIA KING WHO FIRED EVERY NURSE—UNTIL ELENA HART BECAME THE ONE WOMAN HE WOULD BLEED TO PROTECT
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Chapter 14 - A Million Dollars Couldn’t Buy Her Silence
Matteo offered Elena one million dollars.
Leave Bellhaven.
Withdraw her testimony.
Take Noah anywhere.
Elena read the offer.
Then tore it in half.
Nico stared at her.
“That was a million dollars.”
“I can count.”
“You live in a one-bedroom apartment.”
“I know.”
“Your car barely starts.”
“I know.”
“Your shoe is literally taped together.”
Elena looked down.
“I was hoping you hadn’t noticed.”
Nico laughed.
A genuine laugh.
The first she had ever heard.
Elena smiled.
Then became serious.
“If I take that money, my mother died for nothing.”
Nico nodded.
“And if I let Matteo buy me, Noah learns that fear wins.”
Nico looked at her with something deeper than admiration.
Love had arrived quietly.
May you like
Neither of them said it.
Not yet.
