ien
nsive Cuban cigars, but it was the mindless chatter of Spencer across the table that was truly gr
k on the Fifth A
expected her to beg, to scream, to show some kind of emotion that I could crush and mold back into submission. Instead, she had walked out of my office with a chilling, absolute sil
ed against the
t the scree
eless brother never texted me directly.
ed the message. The air in my
r-bound book. I recognized that book the second my eyes landed on it. The master smuggling ledgers. The true, unredacted lifeb
ge was a single
gers are
the stage. Betrayal. Fratricide. War. I dialed Caden's number.
g a tantrum. This was a ho
to the floor. Spencer flinched, his whiskey spi
peakeasy, the shadows of my Soldiers pa
eel, my blood boiling with a rage so pure it tasted like copper. I was going to kill Caden. I would mount his head on the gates of the
h the car's speakers
er button. "No
leanor's voice cut through the tense silence of
ut?" I snarled, swerving
her tone dripping with aristocratic disdain. "A public separation under our own ro
hard my teeth ach
treating me like an incompetent subordinate rather than the Don of New York. "She is locked in the ma
ick
hung
mother's suffocating interference-ignited a hellfire in my veins. I slamm
lly slid open, the oppressive silence of the foyer greeted me. Mrs. Higgins was standing near t
ok at my face made her swallow her words
locked on the heavy double doors at the end of
uld steal from me. She thought she could use my own blood again
my hands flat against the heavy wood and shoved
/1/112674/coverbig.jpg?v=dda8b8af5de57fbfb8c1da8b8c5c898a&imageMogr2/format/webp)