Mafia Hearts
Romance · fiction

The Father's Letter Before the Wedding

Blood tasted like rusty pennies when my stepmother shoved me onto the rain-soaked pavement behind a dying liquor store in Oakland. My knees struck the ground hard enough to send pain through my legs, but Diane barely reacted. “Stand up straight, Nora,” she hissed. Her acrylic nails dug into my upper arm as she hauled me upright. “Try to be...

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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

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

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