
The Kingpin's Debt
A Buried Evidence, Vanished Wife Mafia RomanceBy Nadia VanceLength9h 19m
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Three hundred and twelve fifties. Forty-seven twenties. The rest in tens and fives, rubber-banded into neat stacks built over three years of double shifts at a diner and a night cleaning job at a hospital.
Twelve thousand, three hundred and eighty dollars.
She is short. Two thousand, six hundred and twenty dollars short.
The cash smells like old copper and desperation. Vivienne Castellano counts it for the fourth time, fanning the bills across her kitchen table. Every birthday card from a cousin in another state went into these stacks.
The clock on the microwave reads 6:47. Five hours until midnight.
Her phone rings and she answers before the second buzz.
*Tell me you have it.*
*Viv, listen.*
*Tell me you have the rest.*
*I thought I could. The game, I had a system, I just needed one more.*
*You went back.*
She takes the stacks to the address on the card because there is nothing else left to do, and she stands in a hallway she has been warned about her whole life holding three years of her own labour in a supermarket bag, two thousand six hundred and twenty dollars short of being allowed to leave.
What follows: the sum of all debts, the man who owns the numbers, a crowbar left on a floor, blood on a ledger, a second kiss of Judas, a racketeer's book kept in a hand nobody expects, the weight of a crown, and a stranger standing in a safe house.
*He lied.*
*Yes.*
*He lied about everything.*
*Yes.*
The same smile she saw the night he kissed her through the partition in a holding cell. Tender and fierce and entirely unsuitable to the setting.
Dante will absorb the debt, buy the paper and make the number disappear. And the first person who goes near Vivienne to apply pressure to him is going to discover exactly how little of his reasonableness was ever a personality trait.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Mystery and Thriller
Length9 hrs 19 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Chapter 1 - The Sum of All Debts
3Chapter 2 - The Man Who Owns the Numbers
4Chapter 3 - The Crowbar on the Floor
5Chapter 4 - The Blood on the Ledger
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6Chapter 5 - The Second Kiss of Judas
7Chapter 6 - The Racketeer’s Ledger
8Chapter 7 - The Weight of the Crown
9Chapter 8 - The Stranger in the Safe House
10Chapter 9 - The Cost of Honesty
11Chapter 10 - The Leak in the Foundation
12Chapter 11 - The Hand That Wields the Knife
13Chapter 12 - The Truth in the Coffee
14Chapter 13 - The Unraveling Thread
15Chapter 14 - The Dead Man’s Hand
16Chapter 15 - The Bargain with the Devil
17Chapter 16 - The Wound That Binds
18Chapter 17 - The Witness in the Mirror
19Chapter 18 - The Reckoning
20Chapter 19 - The Judas in the Garden
21Chapter 20 - The Sister’s Return
22Chapter 21 - The Peace Before the Storm
23Chapter 22 - The Ghost from the Cage
24Chapter 23 - The False Flag
25Chapter 24 - The Ticking Heart
26Chapter 25 - The Price of Victory
27Chapter 26 - The End of the Pier
28Chapter 27 - The Aftermath
29Chapter 28 - The Prisoner’s Vow
30Chapter 29 - The Key to the Future
31Chapter 30 - The Black Moment
32Chapter 31 - The Beginning of an Empire
33Epilogue
34About the Author
35The End
36About the Author
37Also by Nadia Vance
38Acknowledgements
39A Note from the Author