A Seven-Year-Old Girl Offered Her Only Puppy to the City’s Most Feared Mafia Boss in Exchange for Her Mother’s Life
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Chapter 10 - Elena Returned to the Diner Where She First Offered Me Bruno, and I Finally Understood Why That Little Girl Had Trusted Me Before Knowing Who I WasWe returned to Café Nate.
Same booth.
Same walls.
Different life.
Elena ordered pancakes.
She shared with Bruno.
I laughed.
“Dogs don't eat pancakes.”
“He does.”
Sophia's memory still lived there.
The night everything began.
Elena looked at me.
“Daddy?”
“Yes?”
“Did Mommy know you'd save me?”
I smiled.
“Yes.”
“How?”
“She knew me.”
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Elena hugged me.
For the first time, I believed my family might actually be okay.
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