All Chapters of Nanny For The Ruthless Mafia King : Chapter 21 - Chapter 24

The plan took four days to assemble and another two to pressure-test, Marco and Damien working through it in the study while Aria kept Luca to his routines with the particular care of someone who understood that a child's sense of safety was built from the reliable repetition of small things: breakfast at seven, the garden by nine, the piano at half past three, dinner at the kitchen table with all three of them where Damien now sat every evening without being asked. She was not excluded from the planning. That was the thing that surprised her most, in the beginning, and then ceased to surprise her as she understood it was simply consistent with who Damien was: a man who valued accurate information over comfortable hierarchy, who would rather hear a useful dissenting opinion from an unexpected source than receive unchallenged confirmation from a trusted one. He consulted her not about the operational details, which were not her domain and which she did not pretend they were, but about

She told Damien that evening, in the study, sitting across from him in the chair that had come to feel like hers over the weeks, with the door closed and the house quiet around them. She told him everything Carrow had said. She told it plainly, without softening the difficult parts and without dramatising the painful ones, because she had grown up with a mother who believed in telling the truth in the plainest language you had, and because Damien was a man who responded better to precision than to presentation. He listened without interrupting. When she finished, he was quiet for a long moment. Your mother made a deal with the man who was ultimately responsible for my wife's death, he said carefully, testing the sentence as he said it. She did not know what Carrow was or what he had done, Aria said. She knew he was someone who moved in dangerous circles. She trusted that a person who dealt in leverage would have the resources to protect me if it was eve