His Nanny Mate By Eve Above Story

Chapter 261

Chapter 261 Chapter 9 Giving Up On Dream

Ella

“I’m the son of the city’s most influential mafia boss.” I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. I had stepped into this city with a single purpose-to fight against the malignant tumor that was the mafia. Not with them And now, here I was, face to face with the son of the most influential mob boss in the area. And he was my client.

“Well?” he asked, his lips curling up into a smirk at the corners. “We have client-lawyer confidentiality. You know the truth now. I told you that there was more to worry about than my infidelity.”

“Oh god,” Ema said, sounding surprised. “A mafia boss? Can it get any worse?”

“At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if it does somehow get worse,” I replied. I swallowed. My mind raced. I knew how the mafia worked, at least to a certain extent. I knew, at the very least, that it was dangerous to go against them. That was why Mr. Henderson was so insistent on me taking Logan on as a client. He was afraid.

Logan did bribe my boss with that nice Rolex watch, but he also intimidated him. And now I was trapped in the middle of it all. I had a choice to make: risk my life and my job and pull out of the case, or risk those things anyway and stay working at Logan’s lawyer.

“I won’t do it, Logan,” I said firmly, drawing upon every ounce of resolve I had. “I won’t work for the mafia. I came here, to this city, because it needs good lawyers… not crooked ones. I can’t let myself be caught in your webs of deceit.”

a hint of a smirk touching his lips, making

slowly, “is completely legal. I’m branching out-finance, real estate, technology. My attempts to legitimize some parts

businesses. Money laundering, likely. I didn’t believe for a second that he wanted to ‘legitimize’

skeptical eyebrow. “And I’m supposed to believe you’ve turned over a new leaf? I’m sure you have

on my phone. If Logan gave me anything incriminating,

smirked again, his blue

new fire within

illegal activities like drugs, murder, human trafficking, loansharking, protection rackets, and sex trafficking?” he questioned openly,

everything out in the

as a striking

my phone back down on the table between us. “But mostly, it’s my father

phone in my peripheral vision. “You’re nothing like me, you slimy weasel,” I

“But you’re wrong,” he said. “I, like you, am trying to pave my own way. I could easily fall into my family’s safety net. I could turn to the illegal side

boiling over. “You think

your client. As long as we’re still in business, you’ll answer to

upfront with you. I still hold hope for us, you know? The Moon Goddess wouldn’t have paired us otherwise.” I shot up from my seat, nearly knocking over the untouched

to bare themselves. “It wasn’t her help-it was her misjudgment. My goal in this city was to stand against the likes of you. I refuse to be your puppet. And

us was electric, the tension palpable. Logan, too, stood up,

what now?

snatched our contract from the table, tearing it up into shreds and letting them fall onto his plate. A few shreds fluttered into his wine glass,

won’t compromise with the mafia, Logan. Even if it means giving up my dreams. Even if it

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