Mafia Hearts
Romance · fiction

The People Who Stayed

Six months after a bullet shattered my spine and left me paralyzed, the woman I was supposed to marry could barely stand to look at me. But every morning, a maid earning twenty-five dollars an hour walked into my room, stretched the legs I could no longer feel, washed my back without pity, and treated me like I was still the most powerful man...

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Genre
Romance
Audience
Adult readers
Chapters
6
Fiction status
fiction
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My Life Story Editorial

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Mafia Hearts

Chapters

  1. 01Chapter 1
  2. 02Chapter 2
  3. 03Chapter 3
  4. 04Chapter 4
  5. 05Chapter 5
  6. 06Chapter 6

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