The Barren Wife's Revenge: It Was You

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e spat. "She carries my legacy

to argue, h

amming against the conc

en, and warm blood began t

the violence; it was t

s pregnant with the son he

s carrying a stranger's baby, he had

body and took her to the Com

broken. He though

that I knew al

e papers that froze his entire fortu

us men in New York and threw a

when you pushed me," I said, my

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p of my grandmother's vintage pistol wh

final round of

m my private investigator showing my husband's hand resting

now, the man who ruled New York with an iron fist would

ad the gun

o easy for D

ore I was a wife, before I was a vict

silk of my gown over

uests were waiting to celeb

st the perfect union of

that had been my prison and

dy, sequestered away from th

st his broad shoulders, the very image of the let

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said, his voice a low rumble t

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and placed a single manila e

niversary gift h

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that had once wiped away my tears aft

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e fr

avy, charged with the viole

look at

e, his gaze tu

sing the papers back as if they were trash

your vows f

desk, his presence filling the

thful to the Family," he

from my clutch and

t around t

was high r

who used to fetch coffee for his soldiers,

o was the ult

but his jaw tightened until

is voice dropping to a dangerous

y husband," I

e desk, closing the

he urge to

man to death for looki

those hand

aid, stopping inches from my face. "She carries

e harder than a

even years of failed treatments, of ne

s, Dante," I sa

zed my chin, forcing m

u stay in this house. You maintain the image. You

d his ha

hoed in the

taliate, the heavy

onsigliere,

him was

he small bump of her stomach, looking every

himpered, rush

er waist instinctively-a protective g

es, but I saw the triumphant smirk

id to me, her voice trembling

ked from

as made in t

is legacy, and then he looked at

o me. "Go to your room. We will discuss your p

ck on me to comf

back, the target I had

spered to the empty air between us, "I will bu

't turn

hink I had

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