Chapter 1 - THE WAITRESS WHO SHOULD NOT HAVE EXISTED
At Duca Manor, a glittering Chicago gala turns deathly silent when twenty-six-year-old waitress Hannah Brooks accidentally drops a tray of crystal glasses and vintage champagne.
Hannah expects humiliation.
Instead, Mafia Don Vincent Duca sees something in her face that drags him back twenty-four years—to the night an apartment building burned and Clara Vale, the only woman he had ever truly loved, supposedly died inside.
Hannah has Clara’s eyes.
More disturbing, she carries the same crescent-shaped scar Clara once warned Vincent about.
When Vincent questions her, Hannah lies about the scar and her past. His suspicion deepens, especially when Dominic Salerno, Vincent’s longtime associate, watches the scene with a strange smile.
Vincent orders the entire estate locked down.
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No one leaves.
Because Hannah Brooks has walked into his home carrying a secret connected to a dead woman—and Vincent realizes someone may have spent twenty-four years making sure the truth stayed buried.
