The Mafia Boss Slapped His Wife for His Mistress—By Sunrise, She Was Gone Without a Trace
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Chapter 10 - Dawn on a New Coast
The winter in Maine arrived not with a sudden freeze, but with the steady, quiet accumulation of snow that buried the granite ledges of Seal Cove under three feet of clean, white silence.
By late April, the ice had broken out of the harbor.
The boathouse at *Shaw & Daughter Marine Repair*—a name chosen by Laurel to honor the child they had lost fifteen years ago in Chicago, whose memory had been buried beneath the noise of their rise to power—smelled of spar varnish, fresh white cedar shavings, and rich
