I WAS FITTING A SUIT FOR CHICAGO’S MOST FEARED MAFIA BOSS WHEN HE ASKED IF I HAD A BOYFRIEND
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Chapter 13 - The Girl Who Had Once Feared the Mafia Became the Woman Who Could Walk Into Any Room Without Lowering Her EyesYears passed.
The shop expanded.
The foundation expanded.
My mother aged.
The Circle became history.
Noah's legitimate companies grew.
His marriage flourished.
My life became peaceful.
People sometimes asked whether I feared another attack.
I said no.
Not because the world was safe.
Because I no longer belonged to the world that had hunted me.
I belonged to myself.
One afternoon, a young girl entered the shop.
Her clothes were worn.
Her shoes were broken.
She wanted a job.
I hired her.
She reminded me of myself.
I taught her tailoring.
She became excellent.
Eventually, she opened her own shop.
The circle continued.
Not the criminal one.
The human one.
May you like
People helping people.
That became my legacy.
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Chapter 15 - The Mafia Boss I Once Loved in Silence Walked Into My Father’s Tailor Shop One Last Time, and We Finally Understood Why We Had Been Meant to MeetRain struck the windows of my father's old shop.
