“How dare you, Frank!”

Gina was going to lose it too, but Luna’s scream brought her to her senses. “Help! It hurts so much! I’m going to die!”

Gina screamed at Frank right then, “Don’t you know who you just hit, you animal?! That’s Gavin Lane’s wife—their family is one of Southstream’s Four Families! If you let Luna go and beg, I might speak on your behalf so that they let you live. If you keep being stubborn, you’ll be dead!”

“Hmph.”

Seeing that Gina was still being delusional, Frank simply squeezed.

“Mmmph!!!!”

Luna’s face turned purple, her arms flailing as if to beg Gina for help.

“Stop, Aunt Gina! He’s crazy!” Cindy promptly pulled Gina away and turned toward Hughie, shrieking, “Go! Fetch that bitch from the basement, or the Southstream Lanes will kill us all if Luna dies!”

immediately and soon returned with Winter, who was bound with so much rope that she looked like a

Winter cried, and Frank seemed

Luna aside, he strode up and gathered Winter

even as he fought back his gnawing guilt, he said, “It’s all my fault… but don’t

mom, Frank?” she asked, so kind as she still

had the best doctors look

Frank caressed her cheek, staring at the bruises on her

you and your

right then but soon shook

Frank. Let’s go home—everything’s

wait in the car. I have something to

“I’m really fine, Frank. It doesn’t hurt— let’s just go back

want him

baleful—Winter was just so

on the

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