Even if she was willing to take the hit for herself and choose a comfortable material life in exchange for…everything…she couldn’t do that to her daughter. Hadley deserved to grow up in a world where she was able to make her own mistakes, without being used as a political pawn or exposed to the darker side of organized crime. That kind of thing was all well and good in theory or fiction, but the reality was that even on the outskirts, Olivia had seen things she wished she could wipe from her mind. She couldn’t imagine how much more she would have experienced if she’d been treated like Andrei’s
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