I Married You For Your Brother's Face

s Don in Chicago, but not

man on earth who carried the same DNA as his

yed the role of the su

fia. I even stayed silent when Sofia pushed me down a

was weak. He thought the way I s

t through him, seeing the ghost of t

line appeared on the pregnanc

ht a piece of Dante back to the wor

y bags, and vanished into the night w

ater, broken and begging on his knees fo

ho thought he was a King a

, Luca. I married

pte

on the plastic stick, my marriage to the mos

dn't

n't s

y, right beside the diamond ring that weighe

, mirroring the frost that had settled

oice drifting from th

on a plush towe

gliere, was ensconced behin

s swe

ht degrees, yet beads of perspiration

nts before him as if th

my voice smooth, devoid of the t

ng his glasses. "These are annulment papers. I

aid, gliding ov

like a fortress, patrolled by men wit

Fal

an Bratva leader with piano wire simply

s underworld with a brutali

hus

wyer. "He is currently at the Ritz-Carlton with S

at the mention

col... the

omestic affairs. He told me last night he wanted this marriage diss

as a

poke to me a

n sentences; he s

didn't k

night in Sofia's bed, leaving me to ro

on," Rossi whispered, his hand

't hes

and dialed the number

ang

ic

was a low growl, ro

noise filte

ing of si

h-pitched, gr

fi

esk. "We are finalizing the estate management papers. He requires y

me for this, Ele

n, Luca. It will get

rred through the speaker. "Is that th

he rustle

ssi," Luca barked. "Just mak

ne wen

Rossi. "Yo

th he seemed to have been

sig

inst the paper sounded lik

rs," I said. "I

fled the room as if the devil h

ked shut, the sile

icked up the framed photog

laughing, his head thrown back, eyes

, this was L

entical twin

harp j

raven

wering

new the

the glass, tracing t

ered to the photo.

wasn'

was D

Prince. The light

irst

go, leaving me with nothing but a prom

arry Luca

marry him

was the sole biological vessel capable of br

ded h

ed his

ldness. I swallowed the humiliation of seeing

e test sitting on t

ad what

photo of Dante

g you home,"