Rising From Ashes: The Don's Lost Queen

ife to marry Dante, the most cold-b

chaos of his life and res

nt he took a young soldier name

ed SUV-a spot strictly reserved for me-and even a

in his car, he simply sa

n that we

I left my wedding ring on his desk alo

d out of his gilded cage, final

pte

usted earring lodged in the c

that if I didn't sever ties with the city's most powerful mob b

he Syndicate, having wiped out three rival families before the age of thirt

the jewelry

male soldier in the family, and Dante had take

de of this car, was our unspoke

g from the leather fold, the metal

f at a safe house. It was snowing hard aft

would have interrogated him on why he broke his promise. But tonight, a strange

on the center console

rned to look at me, searching for the familiar st

scream, to fight h

eet his gaze, pulled the door handle,