Mafia Hearts
Romance · fiction

Stand Beside Me This Time

The first thing Gabriel Vale noticed about the woman on the concrete floor was that she kept apologizing for bleeding on it. Not screaming. Not begging. Apologizing. “I’m sorry,” she whispered for the third time, staring at the dark drops falling from her scraped palm. “I’ll clean it. I promise. Just give me something to wipe it with.” Nobody...

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Genre
Romance
Audience
Adult readers
Chapters
6
Fiction status
fiction
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My Life Story Editorial

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Mafia Hearts

Chapters

  1. 01Chapter 1
  2. 02Chapter 2
  3. 03Chapter 3
  4. 04Chapter 4
  5. 05Chapter 5
  6. 06Chapter 6

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