LAURA

It's not difficult to come face to face with the devil. Well, except he's not!

I stood outside the imposing building, my heart pounding in my chest as I surveyed the darkened streets of the city. I had spent countless hours meticulously piecing together fragments of information, following clues like a detective on the trail of a notorious criminal. And at long last, I had managed to locate his office, the stronghold of the notorious mafia boss.

Even though my friend only saw him as a businessman who was well known to all in New York City, I knew that beyond the furniture business, he was a mafia lord,...