Chapter 1: The Hand He Chose
Three-year-old Leo Moretti had already shattered a plate, bitten a bodyguard, and screamed until each diner inside Il Destino was afraid to breathe.
His father, Rico Moretti, could close businesses with a phone call and make dangerous men lower their eyes, but six months after his wife’s murd3r, he could not reach his own child.
Then Clara Vance, a twenty-four-year-old waitress who desperately needed her job, walked across the marble floor carrying warm milk.
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Everyone expected Rico to throw her out.
Instead, Leo stopped screaming, stared at her through wet lashes, and reached for her hand—and what followed made the most feared man in Brooklyn confront the one thing power could not fix.
