Chapter 2 - The Silent Maid
To understand why a mother’s heart had completely stopped beating in her chest, one had to understand the incredibly dangerous tightrope Elena Reyes had been walking for the past four years.
Elena was not a natural-born servant. She was a deeply traumatized survivor. Five years ago, the love of her life had been brutally murdered in a massive, bloody syndicate war. Pregnant, terrified, and hunted by the rival family that killed him, Elena had changed her name, erased her entire past, and fled into the darkest, most invisible corners of the city.
Desperate to provide for her beautiful daughter, Elena had eventually taken a job as a domestic maid at the Marquetti estate. It was a massive, incredibly dangerous risk to hide inside a mafia stronghold, but she reasoned that the rival family would never dare to look for her inside Vincent Marquetti’s impenetrable fortress.
For three years, she had survived by remaining entirely invisible. She scrubbed floors, kept her brunette hair pinned tightly back in a loose bun, and absolutely never made eye contact with the terrifying boss of the family. She knew that Vincent Marquetti was a man utterly unaccustomed to anyone, anywhere, giving him orders. Men had been executed in the basement for simply speaking out of turn.
And now, her precious, innocent, and entirely fearless four-year-old daughter was standing inches away from the apex predator of the criminal underworld, lecturing him like a disobedient toddler.
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Elena’s entire body trembled. She wanted to dive forward, snatch her daughter into her arms, and beg for their lives. But she was entirely paralyzed by the sheer magnitude of the impending disaster.
👉 Read Part 3 to witness the unbelievable reaction of the syndicate king.
