She Slapped Chicago’s Most Feared Crime Boss to Protect His Son—What the Little Boy Did Next Changed Everything
She slapped the most feared crime boss in Chicago.
Right across the face.
In his own mansion.
In front of armed men.
And the terrifying part wasn’t that Chloe Hastings had just signed her own death warrant.
It was what six-year-old Luca did next.
“Let him go!”
Chloe’s voice cracked through the mansion seconds after her palm struck Dominic Russo’s face.
Nobody moved.
Three armed guards stood frozen at the bottom of the staircase.
Carlo’s hand hovered near his gun.
Dominic slowly turned his head back toward Chloe.
A red mark was already forming across his cheek.
He was thirty-four years old.
Cold.
Powerful.
And according to half the newspapers in Chicago, one of the most dangerous men in the city.
Chloe was twenty-two.
She was his son’s nanny.
And she had just hit him.
But she didn’t step back.
Instead, she moved directly in front of Luca.
The little boy stood barefoot behind her, shaking so violently he could barely breathe.
Pieces of broken glass glittered across the hardwood floor.
Among them lay a tiny silver ballerina.
Luca’s mother’s music box.
One of the last things he had left of her.
Dominic stared at Chloe.
“Move.”
“No.”
His eyes narrowed.
“Chloe.”
She could hear the warning in his voice.
She ignored it.
“Look at him.”
Dominic’s jaw tightened.
“You’re terrifying your own son.”
Silence swallowed the room.
Chloe’s heart hammered against her ribs.
She knew who this man was.
She knew what people said about Dominic Russo.
She knew men disappeared after crossing him.
But none of that mattered when she looked behind her and saw Luca staring at his own father like he was a monster.
“He didn’t break your memory of her,” Chloe said, fighting angry tears.
“You’re breaking him.”
Something changed in Dominic’s face.
His anger remained.
But beneath it came something else.
He finally looked at Luca.
Really looked at him.
And for the first time in two years, Dominic Russo saw the truth.
His son wasn’t looking at him with love.
He wasn’t even looking at him with grief.
He was looking at him with fear.
And suddenly, the most feared man in Chicago looked terrified himself.
Because Chloe Hastings had just forced him to see the one thing no enemy, cop, or federal agent ever could.
Dominic Russo might control half the city.
But he was losing his own son.
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And what happened next would change all three of their lives forever.
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