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Stephanie’s breath caught in her throat, her whole body tense. For a moment, she couldn’t calm down.

Her hands shook as she grabbed the phone. “Hello?”

“Miss Giovanni.” The voice on the other end was unmistakable.

Stephanie’s face went blank, her eyes betraying the storm of emotions she was fighting to keep in check.

She forced herself to speak. “Yeah, it’s me.”

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The guy went on, “Mr. Giovanni’s flight is arriving at Long Harbor at 8 PM tonight. He wants you to meet him at the airport.”

Stephanie’s heart skipped a beat.

She gripped the phone tighter, her palm sweating. “He… he’s coming to Long Harbor?”

The weight of this moment hit her all at once. He was finally coming, after all this time.

Just yesterday, she’d had swiped the wrong black card while shopping. She knew he’d find out, but she hadn’t expected it to blow

up this fast.

The voice on the other end belonged to Elliot Grant, an assistant.

respectful on the surface–but everyone in Fiorenza feared him. Elliot had a way of making people shake

could do that… well, Sebastian Giovanni?

man who’d raised

cold as ever. “He also said

didn’t need to finish. The silence said it all.

Stephanie shuddered.

but inside, her mind was

focus. Her thoughts kept drifting. Even during the meeting,

present.

she could think about

the guy the Hart family was

Fiorenza, he didn’t just have power–he controlled everything. The legal world. The illegal world. He was the king of the

what happened three years ago, just before she left Fiorenza. Her eyes filled with

in her thoughts until the end

six, she stepped outside–and her phone started buzzing

distracted, she

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voice came through, furious, like

the busy street, answering flatly, “You think I

joke with Catlin

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