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"“Lilith ki11ed someone by accident. You’ll turn yourself in and serve time for him. She’s only nineteen. She can’t survive prison.” “But you’ve been inside before. Going back won’t bother you.” My Mafia Don brother ordered me to take the fall again for his precious adopted sister. He waited. No reply. No surrender. No obedience. Because what he didn’t know was— I’d been dead for five years." "I died in prison during the fifth year of a sentence I was serving for Matteo Ricci's adopted sister. And now, even after all that, the Don of the Ricci family was trying to make me take the fall for someone else's murder. ""Lilith's little brother, the one she was separated from as a child, accidentally killed someone. You're going to confess and do his time,"" Matteo had told me. ""He's only nineteen. His life is just getting started. He wouldn't survive the kind of he11 they put you through in there."" He'd said it like he was asking me to run an errand. ""You've already done a stint inside. Second time around, you'll barely notice the difference."" But he waited a long time, and I never walked out of those prison gates. I never showed up at the police station to turn myself in, either. Matteo assumed I'd been released early and was hiding from him on purpose. He kicked open the doors of the old Ricci estate, long since abandoned, and found my childhood best friend Laura in the middle of holding a memorial for the fifth anniversary of my death. When he pressed her, demanding answers with every step forward, Laura stared at the spirit lantern that had been bu//rning on the altar for five years straight. Her eyes were so red they looked ready to b1eed. ""She's dead!"" Laura screamed at him. ""In the second year of the sentence she was serving for your precious adopted sister, she was beaten to death inside that prison!"" A beat of silence. ""Hah. Nice performance."" Matteo's eyes churned with undisguised contempt, the viciousness between his brows heavy enough to suffocate.
