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The four of them begin to chat lightly, then, and I quietly slip away from my spot beneath my father’s arm, moving to Daniel’s side. I nod back to the little alcove that we left, asking him as subtly as he can to take me there. Daniel glances at his father, who gives a tiny nod that I think no one else notices, letting him

know he should.

So quickly, without fuss, Daniel and I move away.

“What the hell is going on,” I hiss to him, looking anxiously around the party – searching, if I’m being honest, for a blonde head of hair amongst this sea of dark–haired Italians, and failing.

“It’s an ambush,” Daniel whispers back, glancing over his shoulder. “That was well done on you, though, greeting your dad like that. It put us in a good position.”

“Good,” I murmur, stopping when we reach our little bench but not sitting down on it, instead smoothing my hands anxiously down the length of my dress. “What did you mean when you said it was an ambush?”

“Everyone who just came in is from a rival family,” Daniel replies, shaking his head a little and looking around at everyone. “They were not invited, but somehow figured out that Alessi and

Natalia are visiting, and that they’d be here tonight. If I had to guess, I’d say these other families are going to make some kind of play to turn the Bianci family against my dad and towards them.”

my teeth.

Daniel sighs, likewise anxious. “Or get whatever information we can, I guess. And make

with worried eyes. “Not my strong suit,”

looking at me and surveying the party instead. I

ask,

Daniel replies, his voice low and angry. “The Kozlovs. Your boy Ivan must have brought them they’re his biggest tie, besides

bad?”

no one tells me anything. “They’ve notoriously got the weakest hold in the city’s underworld. It used to be Ivan, but he surpassed them when he got in the drug game. But if

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me through the

approach, the music changes, going from pleasant background music to an orchestral tango, causing the party guests to clear from a dance floor that I hadn’t realized was there.

I shake my head, but I can’t help my own lips from twitching. up towards

Daniel’s.

shifting his gaze to my fiancé. “Danicl. I’m so pleased to hear that you two have… patched things

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