Rising From Ash: The Mafia Queen Returns

t a political bridge, a

he child growing inside me, Dante spent his da

ke porcelain and

t came the night

dn't hol

over a fake emergency, leaving me and his

e him exactly what h

ng behind nothing but signed divorce

, he was told I die

hthouse with his bare hands, sobbing into the mud, fina

ubmissive wife-I was the secret daughter of D

hree years to

y feet, covered in grime,

he wept. "I will gi

the steps of my private je

at you broke, Dan

son again, I won't send a

pte

na

realized something terrifying: if I didn't rewrite the terms of my surrender before my husb

ested on

heavy velvet curtains of the Ross

this hous

steel, and the suffoca

lutter dee

, secr

t felt real in a world bu

le

came from

ith the morning correspondence, but his gaze was fixed strictly o

review these before b

der. The leather was

ened

with the Genovese family. My name

ossi, th

ssi, the

person. I was a trea

encircled us. Armed guards patrolled the perimeter. Those iron gates were

to go d

to play

id the slight curve of my waist a

spresso and something else.

er

chair pulled uncomfortably c

r Dante's late brother, Marco. But the dress was too tig

g, Elena," V

ittle, like glas

d poured milk into Dante's coffee.

cidental. It

mixed with Vanessa's rose perfume. It was a nau

her with a softness that he had nev

ou," he

turned white. I was the wife. I was the one carrying his heir

at

e," I

ook up from

d, keeping my voice steady. "I'd like to take lead on

l handle it,

on his screen. He

ut

he cut in. "She handled it when Mar

sad, brave little smile t

" she said softly. "You look so pale. You sho

mil

in the air l

wife of the Don. Yet she was the one insid

palms under the table. Th

It was a financial report r

es tracking the movement of her hands. He looked at her like she was somethin

. I forced the tremo

told myself

e first time I

ed the oxygen in the room. He had been dangerous.

uld be the one to tame the beast. I had thought the

sn't

just ap

liance papers. There are clauses about

he lawyers," he s

his hand

"I need your opinion on

ked out

n't lo

, silent dining room. My h

hispered to the empty room.

too

oing to th

to my study and took th

he allianc

e regarding the *

ssed

o the asset dis

hrough *Joi

hrough *Ros

r as I wrote in the margin

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anary in a c

her prepari