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A crime lord spent four million dollars trying to get his mute triplets to speak, only for a broke waitress to hear their very first word. / Chapter 19 / 29

Chapter 19 - The Boardroom at Midnight

The gathering took place in the grand subterranean boardroom beneath the old Manhattan Diamond Exchange—a windowless vault of solid granite and bulletproof glass that had hosted syndicate negotiations for over eighty years.

Around the long mahogany table sat the capos of the five ruling

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