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She had spent every New Year’s Eve alone since childhood.

This year, Elena Morrison was on her couch in penguin pajamas, drinking cheap wine and talking to a dying succulent named Steve.

Then her buzzer rang ten minutes before midnight.

Her boss stood downstairs in a tuxedo, soaked by the winter mist, with his bow tie undone and his eyes full of something she had never seen in the office.

Salvator Rizzo should have been at a black-tie gala with politicians, donors, and women born for chandeliers.

Instead, he was at her Queens apartment.

And when he said, “I couldn’t stay there because all I could think about was you,” Elena realized the most dangerous man in New York had not come to celebrate the new year.

He had come to stop losing the only person who still made him feel human.

Read the full story below… because before sunrise, Elena would learn why Sal really left the gala, what threat was waiting for him outside, and why her lonely little apartment became the safest place in his world.

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