Breaking The Mafia Lord's Golden Cage

or the cameras while my phone vibrated against my leg. I was

Dante, with his assistant, Jade. She wasn't just straddling him; she was wearin

hen I asked about it

ce" he planned to shelf once she gave him a son. After two yea

card and a trip to Paris would buy my silence. He bel

as w

ring to a jeweler and made him melt it down with a b

is darkest sec

for Elena Pa

pte

na

most dangerous man in Chicago, just as my phone vibrated against my

pic assault that synchronized perfectly w

rs. Paletti!

ain smile that had been conditioned into me since I was

Don of the Chicago Outfit, t

ssion and protection. To me, it felt li

nst my ear, his breath heavy with expensive scot

partner. Not

wanted him. And I was the gleaming hood ornament on his life, signaling to the pu

ntinued to burn

he were about to wet himself. Seizing the moment, I slipped into the la

ll door and pull

wn number. Just

alcifying into a sha

ze, his shirt unbuttoned. And straddling him, staring directly i

t." The one he spent late nights with at the

made my stomach churn. It was

tooth

elry. It was

ght he had returned from with blood caked on his knuckles. He had told me it

gling from his

our survival lik

ud it was deafening. In our world, affairs happened. We looked the other

tà of marriage. It was a public

the night. I let Dante touch me. I let him pa

Dante loosened his tie. He looked at me with that

pouring himself a drink. "But you

the art gallery I had been trying to open f

te the trembling in my hands. "Where i

his mouth. His eyes narrowed, ju

ecking,"

He lied s

he lack of effort. He didn't even car

ater, the vi

ng at a blank canvas I hadn't touche

gain. This ti

ackground, on the phone, his back turned to her. Jade

going to put her on the shelf for good. She's

y fingers and clattered

rr

e test had been a knife twisting in my heart. D

discussing my failure wit

. I wasn't his sanctuary.

my roommate from college, the only person

tight. "What's wrong? You sound

down at the massive diamond on my f

eed to leave. And I need to do it so clean

hand. I didn't just want to take it off.

m, opened the safe, an

aletti to die, so that