THE MAFIA BOSS CAME HOME EARLY AND CAUGHT HIS FIANCÉE HURTING HIS BABY—THEN THE NANNY’S TESTIMONY EXPOSED EVERYTHING
THE MAFIA BOSS CAME HOME EARLY AND CAUGHT HIS FIANCÉE HURTING HIS BABY—THEN THE NANNY’S TESTIMONY EXPOSED EVERYTHING
“Stop! Please—you’re going to break his arm!”
Lily’s scream ripped through the marble foyer of the Blackwood mansion.
Fourteen-month-old Ethan lay helpless on the floor, crying so violently that his tiny body struggled to draw breath.
Serena Montigue had one hand locked around his arm.
She dragged him across the marble as though he were nothing more than a discarded toy.
His face had turned from bright red to a terrifying shade of purple.
Every cry came out weaker than the one before it.
And Lily understood, with a fear so powerful it erased every other thought from her mind, that the little boy she had cared for and loved like her own for the past six months was beginning to go into shock.
She lunged forward.
Her bare feet slipped against the freezing marble.
Her hands reached desperately for Serena.
Her heart repeated a single frantic prayer.
Save him.
But Serena moved first.
The sharp point of her heel slammed into Lily’s stomach with savage force.
The impact tore the air from Lily’s lungs and hurled her backward onto the stone floor.
Pain detonated through her abdomen.
For one blinding second, she could not breathe.
But Lily barely noticed her own suffering.
All she could see was Ethan.
The baby’s arm hung at a sickening angle.
His small face twisted in agony.
His sobs had faded into weak, broken sounds—sounds no child should ever be forced to make.
Serena stood over Lily without a trace of panic or remorse.
Her expression remained cold.
Perfect.
Controlled.
This was the same woman who smiled sweetly beneath ballroom chandeliers at charity galas.
The same woman who posed gracefully for cameras and convinced everyone she was elegant, generous, and kind.
The same woman who was only weeks away from marrying Victor Blackwood—the most feared mafia boss in Chicago.
Serena lowered her heel onto Lily’s abdomen and slowly pressed down.
“Touch him again,” she said calmly, “and I’ll make you disappear.”
Lily gasped beneath the crushing pressure.
Serena leaned closer.
“Nobody cares about someone like you. Do you honestly think anyone will believe a cheap nanny over me?”
Lily could barely breathe.
Her vision blurred.
Her stomach burned with every shallow breath.
But she still began to crawl.
One inch.
Then another.
Her hands trembled against the marble.
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Her knees scraped painfully across the floor.
And she kept moving toward Ethan.
