A mafia boss spent millions trying to save his son. But in the end, it was a cleaning lady in yellow rubber gloves

who brought the boy back to life. And what he did for her shocked the entire underworld. Maxwell Thornton killed the

engine of his black armored Maybach in front of the imposing facade of his Chicago mansion. The roar of the engine

died instantly, but the noise inside his head never stopped. He sat there for a moment with both hands gripping the

leather steering wheel, breathing deeply, trying to delay a few more seconds before stepping into the house

that for 2 years had felt more like a cold marble mausoleum than a home. He loosened the collar of his black shirt,

still carrying the faint smell of gunpowder from the night’s work, and stepped out of the car. His footsteps

echoed lonely on the stone driveway. He was the man who had everything. a

criminal empire that controlled half of Chicago, the fear of every rival family, and a bank account that could buy

anything. But every time he crossed that massive iron gate, he felt like the poorest man on Earth. Because inside

that fortress, his three-year-old son, Ethan, had not spoken a single word since watching his mother get shot to

death right before his eyes two years ago. And no amount of money could buy back the voice of a broken child. If

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wearing yellow rubber gloves. Maxwell pushed open the heavy iron door and stepped into the main hall of the

mansion. The crystal chandelier blazed overhead, yet it couldn’t drive away the cold atmosphere that clung to the place.

Raymond Collins, his loyal right hand, was already waiting in a perfectly tailored black suit, as he did every

night. The 50-year-old man’s face showed no emotion, but Maxwell could read the exhaustion in his eyes. “Sir, everything

is the same,” Raymond said in a low, even voice. “The boy didn’t eat dinner.

He only managed a few sips of milk and then sat by the window until he fell asleep. The nurse says his heart rate is

stable, but his weight keeps dropping.” Maxwell didn’t reply. He had heard reports like this hundreds of times over

the past 2 years, and every time they landed in his ears, it felt like someone was carving into his chest with a dull

knife. He climbed the staircase, each step heavy, as if his legs were wrapped in lead, passing expensive oil paintings

on the walls without sparing them a glance. When he reached the door of the master bedroom, he stopped. That room

had been sealed shut for 2 years. Ever since that fateful night, the night everything in Maxwell’s life collapsed

completely. He closed his eyes and the memories surged back like an unstoppable flood.

That night was cold, too, just like tonight. Melissa, his wife, was stepping out of the car in front of the house

with Ethan in her arms. She was wearing her favorite red dress, her golden hair lifted by the wind, her smile radiant as

she looked at her son, babbling his first attempts at calling for his mother. Maxwell followed behind,

carrying a bag of gifts for Ethan’s first birthday. He remembered thinking about when he would teach his son to

ride a bike someday. Then the gunshots rang out. One shot, two shots, three

shots. Everything happened so fast that Maxwell didn’t have time to react. Melissa collapsed, her blood soaking

into the red fabric of her dress, staining the ground, staining the small face of Ethan lying in his mother’s

arms. The black car of the assassins vanished into the night. Maxwell screamed like a wounded animal, holding

his dying wife as Ethan sat beside them, his eyes wide open, watching his mother

fade away. From that night on, the boy never opened his mouth to speak another word. Anthony Richi, the boss of the

rival mafia family, had ordered Melissa’s assassination in revenge for Maxwell taking control of the southern

part of the city. He wanted Maxwell to suffer, and he succeeded. Maxwell took his revenge. He killed 12 of Reachi’s

men within a month, burned down three casinos and two warehouses. Yet Richi himself continued to hide like a rat.

And no matter how many people Maxwell killed, he couldn’t bring Melissa back. couldn’t make Ethan call him father even

one more time. He had done everything he could. A top psychologist from Vienna was brought in for a fee of $200,000 for

two weeks of treatment. The man tried every method from play therapy to hypnosis. But Ethan sat there like a

statue, his empty eyes staring through everything. A neurology specialist from John’s Hopkins flew to Chicago with a

private nursing team and equipment worth millions. They scanned his brain, ran blood tests, measured brain waves, then

shook their heads, and said the boy’s brain was perfectly normal. The problem was psychological, not physical. A

private clinic in Switzerland took Ethan in for 3 weeks at a cost of $500,000. They used ecoin therapy, art therapy,

even experimental drugs that hadn’t been approved. Ethan came back worse than before, terrified of anyone in a white

coat, screaming whenever he saw a needle. Maxwell even hired a team of artificial intelligence robots from

Japan designed specifically to interact with children with autism and psychological trauma. Ethan hurled the

robot into the wall within the first 10 minutes of the very first session. In total, Maxwell had spent more than $3

million over two years. $3 million and not a single result. The last doctor he

saw, a leading professor from Harvard, looked him straight in the eye and told him to prepare himself. The boy might

never speak again. He had built a wall around his soul, and no one could break it. Maxwell remembered pulling out his

gun and aiming it at the professor’s head. Raymond had to intervene before he pulled the trigger. Now standing outside

his son’s room, Maxwell felt that familiar helplessness rising again, choking his throat. He was the most

powerful man in Chicago, a man who could make anyone kneel with a single phone call. Yet, he couldn’t make his own son

speak a single word to call him father. Victoria Sterling appeared at the far end of the hallway just as Maxwell was

standing outside Ethan’s door. The sound of her high heels struck a steady rhythm against the oak floor. Not fast enough

to seem rushed, not slow enough to be judged lazy. Everything about Victoria was calculated down to the smallest

detail. She approached Maxwell with a graceful stride, her dark brown hair pulled into a flawless bun without a

single strand out of place, a perfectly tailored black suit hugging the slender frame of the 45-year-old woman. Mr.

Thornton, I’ve arranged the schedule for next week, Victoria said in a warm, measured voice meant only for him. Dr.

Peterson will come on Tuesday for the boy’s routine checkup. Thursday, there’s a meeting with the attorneys regarding

the Northern Real Estate lawsuit, and I’ve canled the charity gala this weekend because I thought you needed

rest.” Maxwell nodded without speaking, his eyes still fixed on his son’s door.

Victoria stood beside him, close enough to show concern, but far enough to maintain professional distance. She had

worked for the Thornon family for 5 years since Melissa was still alive, and she remembered clearly the first day she