Jilted Mafia Queen: Ruling The North

rs old, we took the Omertà, a sacred blood

gious recruitment offers from the

rought back Mia-the orphaned daughter of a loy

ed on the outside,

d friends changed completely. They grew increasingly cold t

me into signing a transfer contract to the freezing wastelands. He did it all just to let M

th the forged application

seen it, I'll tell you the truth. Mia has suffered enough, and she would never survive t

iately chimed in, accusing

part and permanently deleted all my childhood videos from the Family

nd was too soft-hearted to ever leav

ear training program, and that by winter break, I would

ed wasn't a standard exchange application, but a c

I was never

pte

ar-smoke-filled VIP lounge of the Syndicate's casino

r palms with a silver switchblade to take the Omertà. When our ble

y bar, guiltily averting his eyes to t

e applications to the Ap

red without a single

When you publicly swore that if I transferred North, you would accompany me and

one in a rival territory. If I hadn't promised to go to the North wi

tly how much

ove just to clear my elite c

hide her crocodile tears, she trembled, "I... I'll go North. I can take Sienna's p

ulder holster was visible under his tailored jacket. He was the Obsidian Syndicate's future Ch

his voice rough. "This was a joint decision made

ook in a display of feigned innocence. "She will be

e. "She can take care of herself. You've barely been back in t

watching the four of them gat

rth to suffer, but they had absolutely no problem

ting Consigliere heir, pushe

clinical as a hitman calculating a bullet's tra

the best tactical facility on the continent. With your grades, you will definitely succeed. You are only going there for training.

ampled my right to choose

ill. Dante's exp

ors contacted you twice. Every time you turned them down, yo

e two different things," I said, the betrayal slicing into my chest like a blade. "You weren't hel

o go to the Ap

and I grew up surrounded by his tactical blueprints. The No

o leave them, I had turned th

wasting my entire life on four men who

tely stepped into my path, firmly

are you

om

t doesn't mean my feelings for you are fake." He frowned, as if offering me an incredibly generous compromise. "I can keep dating you until your term star

"Sienna, Lucian really does care about you. When you fell asleep on the couch

laughed o

future for them, and she thought a

me-his hypocritical charity and her fei

aid softly, my voice devoid of any ripples, "then

f my neck and unclasped th

lumsy childhood initials. We had made it with our own

r childhood?" I placed the necklace on the casino ta

r a moment befor

e hell is wrong with you today? Didn't

was be

d him and walke

past the heavily armed guards, the encr

m early entry into the Five-Year Classified Architect Program, your Syndicate transfer will begin simultaneously.] [Upon completio

he screen, a chilling, mocking smil

demy. Its Architect division operated a

t classified Architects were different. We were required to transfer our absolute loyalty to

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