Chapter 1
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The slap never landed.
Instead, a tray of champagne glasses shattered across the marble ballroom floor. Every billionaire, politician, and socialite froze, staring at the one person who had dared to intervene: a broke, exhausted waitress named Grace.
She stood between a furious, diamond-draped socialite and a quiet, elderly woman in a wheelchair, her grip locked tightly around the attacker's wrist.
Grace thought she was just protecting a helpless stranger. She thought this reckless act of kindness would cost her the job she desperately needed to pay her dying mother’s medical bills.
She had no idea how wrong she was.
The silver-haired woman in the wheelchair wasn't a nobody. She was Margaret DeLuca.
And standing just twenty feet away in the shadows was Margaret’s son—Dominic DeLuca, the most ruthless, feared mob boss in Chicago.
Dominic owned the city. He destroyed anyone who crossed his family. And with cold eyes that never forgot a debt, he had just watched an invisible waitress risk everything to protect his paralyzed mother.
Grace thought her life was over. But she had just become the only thing Chicago’s deadliest man cared about.
Then… the accident happened
