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The six-year-old son of my housekeeper found me crying in a wheelchair behind my mansion, a loaded pistol locked inside the desk twenty feet away and half of Chicago terrified to speak my name. “Why are you crying, Mr. Caldwell?” he asked, touching my useless knee, unaware that the blind man in front of him was Ethan Caldwell, the most feared mafia boss in the Midwest, and that within minutes, I would offer a child everything I owned for something no amount of blood or money had ever been able to buy.