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Chapter 493 - 493/Are You Really the Mafia?

Chapter 493

Carlos's POV

The waiter arrived with the breakfast tray a few minutes later, placing the dishes before me with the nervous caution of a man terrified of waking a sleeping beast. He wasn't wrong. I didn't lift my gaze from the glass window. The street had settled back into its morning quiet, but the deafening noise inside my head refused to quiet down.

Four decades of life, an empire built from the ashes in this city after I left Mexico behind, a partnership with the man closest to my heart for years... and here I was, sitting in a diner, running away from a woman who didn't even know I was running.

Julie. And Robert.

Oh, the bitter irony of fate. Out of all the women on earth, I had to fall for the exact same woman my best friend loved. I didn't even have the excuse of ignorance; I had seen with my own eyes the way she looked at him. She looked at him the way parched earth looks downpours, while I stood on the sidelines, holding an umbrella nobody asked for.

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