Blood On My Knuckles
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She is on the run.
She is hiding.
He is coming.
He is going to find her.
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Vera Russo has been hiding from him for 4 years. He has been right on her tail and with each exhausting month, he keeps coming closer. He killed her lover and husband, Lucien, and during that difficult time, she shared the mafia's deepest secrets. With each passing year, she spills just a little more until she can make the grand reveal. Freshly widowed after the loss of Lucien, she has made a vow that she cannot break:
I will not fall in love with another man.
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Romano "Lucifer" De la Cruz has been chasing her for 4 years. With each turn he makes, he can feel himself coming closer to finding her. Romano killed Lucien, the traitor of the Kings Lorence Mafia and his widowed wife, Vera, is out for blood as she shares the secrets that Lucien shared to her. The death of her husband has left her in shambles and after he murdered him. The way his business works is slowly getting spilled into an irremovable stain, but before the secret he knows that she is keeping hold of, he is going to finish the job and do what he should have done years ago. She is with-holding the deepest secret of his mafia and if she finds the chance to share it, he is screwed.
Romano has made one vow that he cannot break:
Finish the job and kill her.
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