My Cruel Ex-Husband Demands A Remarriage

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the Mafia's most feared Enforcer, was fundin

ent doll. I cleaned the blood off his

my entire inheritance into a trust for

ave, his mistress

k for proof. He

rehouse, hooded me, and be

nd bracelet on my wrist-the very one he had gifte

ought I would die in that basement

atal mistake. H

nd ran straight to the one man Aiden fe

weapon,"

I walked back int

the CEO of the corporation that h

ealizing the ghost he created

essing a high-voltage tact

trespa

pte

lott

ng to wrap my fingers around the cold steel of t

apon, my hand brush

husband had been paying for his mi

led as I traced

t supposed

supposed

y, the man whose mere silhouette made gr

t make m

d been sl

he just d

was exactly what he had molded me into over seven years-a sile

the heavy

th numbers. Offshore acc

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era Fami

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neficiary: H

ched painfull

is broth

five-year

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Estate Li

ther had left me to ensure I would always

as g

of

five years into a trust for a chi

had been punch

er for the Family's Consigliere, heavy

ng hollow and foreign to my own ears

was smooth, dismissive. "Aiden set it up fiv

ispered. "Fam

ung

y bus

I had justified

the blood of

ced his

ised because I told myself he was a weapo

myself I wa

drown in the blood he sp

sn't his

is bank

r drifted dow

belong in this cold, ster

warm. G

on autopilot, drawn like a moth t

he East Win

oors were s

d in the shadows of th

painting of the perfect life

sitting

a crystal ashtray against the wall last

s smi

lly s

ing on his ba

ng like a Madonna in white silk, wa

Don, stood by the

is voice like gravel grinding together. "Th

ed, holding

egacy belongs to the true Herre

utsi

his bed for

allowed

late me from ever

still an

hing?" Haven asked, her voic

n sc

ilt for her," he said. "She doesn't

rness that shattered my heart

. "I do what I have to do to keep the pe

ng wi

n. A necessary evil to

cked

e no sound o

to be quiet.

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om was

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t smelled

wedding photo on

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d up th

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n't s

n on the table, closin

room, my voice steady for the first time i