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Chapter 165 - Promise me you'll always come home

Then she left.

Eve sat on the bed beside Dimitri, careful not to jostle him.

"Thank you," he said quietly. "For staying. For not leaving."

"I told you I wouldn't leave because you got shot. I meant it." Eve took his hand. "But Dimitri, if you lie to me again, if you hide things from me again, I will leave. Not because I don't love you. But because I can't be in a partnership where I'm kept in the dark."

"I understand. And I won't. I promise." He squeezed her hand. "From now on, you know everything. Even the parts I want to protect you from."

"Especially those parts."

"Especially those parts," he agreed.

They sat in silence for a while.

Finally, Eve said, "You killed fifteen men."

"Yes."

"And you're planning to kill more. The Romano family. Retaliation for the ambush."

"Yes."

"When?"

"Soon. Mike's gathering intel. When we know who's in charge now, where they operate, we'll strike. Hard. Make an example."

Eve processed that.

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