Chapter 1 - THE MIDNIGHT CONFESSION
The three knocks had shattered two years of absolute silence between them. As Raphael Orsini sped along Interstate 95 through the dead of night, the ghost of his deceased sister Dileia finally loosened its icy grip on his chest. Beside him, Josephine Hartley kept her trembling hand rested over his on the gear shift—a fragile bridge built across an impossible divide between a ruthless mob boss and a penniless maid. Ahead lay Boston Children’s Hospital, where life and death hung by a single surgical thread.
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