Chapter 1 - THE PHONE LEO HID
At 3:00 in the morning, Daisy Gallagher made a decision that changed everything.
She lied to Detective Harrison Miller.
Behind the pantry door of Higgins Diner, wounded Mafia boss Matteo Romano was hiding with a gun beneath his jacket. Daisy had no reason to protect him—until Miller threatened her younger brother, Leo, by name.
Leo had been paralyzed nine months earlier when a stolen Raven Industrial Transport truck ran a red light and destroyed his car.
Raven belonged to Matteo.
And Miller had secretly reviewed the accident.
After Matteo escaped, Miller had Daisy fired. But Matteo soon showed her photographs recovered from the man who had shot him.
Photographs of Matteo.
Photographs of Daisy.
Photographs of Leo.
Someone had been watching all three.
Matteo discovered that evidence had been removed from Leo’s wreck by Miller, and Leo finally admitted why.
On the night of his accident, he had been delivering food to a warehouse when he found a phone beneath a loading dock. Men chased him because they believed he had seen what was on it.
Leo had hidden the phone.
When Daisy and Matteo recovered it, they found a video showing Miller, Matteo’s cousin Luca, and a mysterious silver-haired man standing beside cash and police evidence boxes.
Then Daisy saw something impossible.
A photograph of herself.
Taken before she had ever met Matteo.
The men spoke about a ledger Daisy’s father had supposedly hidden before his death. Daisy had always believed her father died of a heart attack.
Apparently, that was only part of the truth.
Before they could understand more, Luca entered the rehabilitation facility with Miller.
Between them stood the silver-haired man from the recording.
Matteo recognized him immediately.
The older man carried Daisy’s father’s black notebook.
He claimed Daisy’s father had known the Romano family, that the story of his death had been manufactured, and that twenty-four years earlier he had made a promise involving his newborn daughter.
Daisy refused to believe him.
Then the man revealed something even Matteo had never known.
Matteo’s father had secretly paid Daisy’s hospital bills from the day she was born until she turned five.
Daisy turned toward Matteo.
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For the first time since she had met the feared Mafia boss, he had no answer.
And the silver-haired man smiled.
