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Chapter 107 Part 3
Her hand found the edge of his sleeve. Her fingers closed around the fabric the way a child grips the hem of something steady when the ground underneath them won’t stop shaking.Ethan looked down at her hand on his sleeve. Then up at her face.“It was your decision to make,” he said, his voice gentle and unhurried. “You don’t need anyone’s permission for that. And you don’t need anyone’s blame.”He lifted his hand and placed it on the top of her head, rubbing once, the way someone comforts a person who has just walked through something too big for words.“You did fine,” he said.Jake had been standing by the boxing ring, arms folded, watching the whole thing with the expression of a man who had been holding his tongue for approximately sixty seconds longer than his personality allowed.He cracked.He walked over in three long strides, threw his arm around Ethan’s shoulders, and turned to Amber with a grin so wide it occupied most of his face.“You know what, Amber?” Jake said, his voic
Chapter 107 Part 2
The fifth slap connected so hard Kyle’s entire body shifted sideways. His shoulder hit the wall and he slumped against it, blood running freely from three different cuts on his face, his breathing ragged and shallow.Amber’s hand trembled at her side. Her fingers were red. Her palm stung so badly it felt numb. Tears ran down her cheeks in steady, silent streams, but her voice did not crack. Not once.“The Amber who loved you died today,” she said, looking down at him with eyes that held nothing except the cold clarity of a woman who has finished mourning. “She died on the floor of that casino when you signed a piece of paper with her name on it. What’s standing in front of you right now is someone you will never know.”She took one step back.“If you ever show your face near me again,” she said, “Danny will be the one who answers the door.”She let the silence hold for three seconds. Then she said one word.“Go.”Kyle stared at her from the floor. His mouth moved once. No sound came ou
Chapter 107 Part 1
Kyle’s broken fingers grazed the hem of Amber’s dress. She stepped back like his touch carried a disease.The fabric slipped from his hand and fell back against her knee. His arm hung in the air for a moment, reaching for something that was no longer there, then dropped to the floor.“Looking at your face makes me sick,” Amber said, her voice flat and steady, carved from something that had been soft twelve hours ago and had hardened overnight into stone. “I don’t ever want to see you again. Not tomorrow. Not next year. Not for the rest of my life.”Kyle’s one functional eye searched her face for the crack. The opening. The tiny fracture in her anger where he had always found a way back in. The spot where he would push and she would bend and everything would reset.He couldn’t find it.“Since Mr. Moore brought you here,” Amber said, “I’m going to finish this properly. And then I’m going to walk out of this room and you will never exist to me again.”She stepped forward.Her right hand c
Chapter 106 Part 3
“But understand something clearly,” Ethan said, his voice dropping to a register that made the air in the room feel colder. “Tony Mazzola is nothing now. He managed this place. I own it. From this moment forward, every decision, every table, every dollar that moves through this building answers to me. If you step out of line, Louie, there won’t be a conversation. There won’t be a warning. There will just be Danny.”“Understood, sir,” Louie mumbled into the floor. “Completely understood.”Ethan had no interest in running a casino. The gambling industry was a sewer and he had no intention of swimming in it. But shutting the place down tonight would accomplish nothing. Tony Mazzola would simply relocate, find another basement, build another operation, and continue doing exactly what he had been doing for twenty years.Better to own the cage and let the animal starve inside it. Bleed the operation slowly. Drain the profits through refunds and clean play until the numbers made no sense and
Chapter 106 Part 2
“Any customer who loses more than ten thousand dollars in a single session is to be removed from the floor immediately. Not tomorrow. Not after the next hand. Immediately. Escorted out, given water, and sent home.”He raised a second finger.“No drugs on the premises. No exploitation of women. None of the filth that was happening in that back room. Anyone caught violating this answers to him.”He tilted his head toward Danny, who stood with his arms folded and his jaw set like a man carved from a material harder than the concrete under his feet.Third finger.“Anyone who breaks these rules forfeits their position, their pay, and their ability to walk comfortably for the next six months.”Tony Mazzola nodded quickly, eager to demonstrate compliance.“One more thing,” Ethan said, turning directly to Tony. “Customers who lose get back half their bets. Refunded before they leave the building. Customers who win keep everything. The house takes nothing.”Tony’s face went through three stage
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Jake stepped forward before Tony Mazzola could draw his next breath.His open palm cracked across the casino owner’s face with a sound that echoed off every wall in the basement. Tony’s head snapped sideways. His prayer beads swung against his wrist. A thin line of spit flew from his mouth and hit the shoulder of the man standing behind him.Nobody moved to help.“The man asked you a question,” Jake said, straightening his cufflink as if he had just swatted a fly rather than struck a grown man in front of his own army.Tony Mazzola pressed his hand against his burning cheek. His eyes darted to his thirty men standing behind him, every one of them frozen, their weapons hanging at their sides like props in a play nobody wanted to be in anymore.“This place,” Tony started, his voice shaking despite every effort to hold it steady. “This is prime underground real estate. Premium location. We’re sitting under one of the busiest commercial blocks in Lower Manhattan. The equipment alone is wo
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