Chapter 4 - Mara Panics While Searching For Her Missing Daughter
Back near the service entrance, Mara dropped the tray of dirty glassware she was carrying with a shattering crash.
Her heart hammered wildly against her ribs as she realized Rory was no longer sitting behind the counter.
“Rory!” Mara called out in a panicked whisper, pushing past the swinging kitchen doors into the main dining hall.
The atmosphere in the restaurant was thick with suffocating tension, every patron staring toward the front bar.
Mara spotted her little girl standing near the VIP private room, flanked by two towering men in expensive black suits.
Panic surged through Mara’s veins, and she broke into a frantic run across the plush carpeting.
“Rory! Step away right now, baby,” Mara cried out, throwing herself between her daughter and the armed guards.
Vincent Kane turned his head toward the distressed mother, his cold gaze softening for a fraction of a second.
“Is this your mother?” Vincent asked softly, looking down at the little girl standing beside the frantic woman.
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Mara clutched Rory against her chest, her eyes wide with terror as she recognized the city's most notorious underworld figure.
“Please don't hurt her,” Mara sobbed, shielding Rory with her own body. “She didn't mean to wander in here.”
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