Lana exhaled and leaned against the wall, her mind racing. The call was a risk, but it was necessary. She had burned every bridge to escape Dean, but there was one person who had always operated in the shadows, someone Dean didn’t control—Elias Kane.
A former Vincenza enforcer turned ghost, Elias had vanished years ago after a falling out with Dean. Some said he was dead. Others whispered he had built a network of his own, helping people disappear—for the right price.
And now, he was her only hope.
Lana tightened the straps of her bag, checking her remaining cash and a stolen knife she had picked up along the way. If Elias agreed to help, she had a chance. If not?
Then she’d find another way. She has to find another way...
Because going back to Dean?
That would never happen.
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