Chapter 90

Silvia Sleep had abandoned me completely. The night dragged on endlessly while questions swarmed through my mind like angry wasps, each one more venomous than the last. I lay there staring at the ceiling, watching shadows dance across the cracked plaster as streetlights filtered through my thin curtains. Check phone. 2:47 AM. Count the water stains. One, two, three... Roll over. Close eyes. Try again. Nothing worked. My mind refused to quiet, spinning in endless circles since Alpha Enzo had dropped his devastating bombshell on my life. How did nobody know? Me—the daughter of Alpha Enzo Lawson. One of the most feared crime bosses on the east coast was supposedly my biological father. The man whose very name made grown men tremble had created me, carried me in his DNA, claimed me as his blood. I pressed my face into my pillow and released a muffled groan that sounded more like a wounded animal than anything human. The questions multiplied like cancer cells, each one spawning ten more. Wh