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ndro, the coldest and most ruthless
framed me. She claimed that I had killed her unborn child,
owed her that so-called "debt of life" - I gritted my teeth and agreed to serve as the mistr
the society ladi
, reduced to the mistr
lver pendant my parents had le
lace. What is all
He believed he had long since cr
life debt I was repaying
born, my account with the Cavallar
apers down on his desk
k, I boarded a one-
take back an em
pte
na's
ng boss from my husband's knuckles when the old
tate tonight. Remember your promise. Protect the heir -
rld, and I knew with perfect clarity that before I vanished from his
't just rule the underwor
ined the air out of a room. His broad shoulders and those obsidian-c
and bare-fisted, he had anni
ting me dress his wounded flesh - utterly unaware
to his grandmother,
onvoy had been ambush
alt, it was Rosa who mobilized the family'
her own condition, leaving her with a h
bt is an iron yoke around you
d tightened
ily's old residence, I had
e woman who shared Alessandro's bed - i
ery meal, hire her a d
status as the legitimate wife to shield her from every
me a court-certified, family-
om. A past
were a textbook le
aster bedroom into a
the mafia wives whispe
They laughed at how the untouchable Mafia Dona had be
them
estate's defenses and taste-tes
liance with cold satisfaction -
pregnant with her first child. That
hat I had forced her onto the operating table, pain
without hesitation, and he
total submission was m
was merely pay
smell of antiseptic flooded my lung
ed through twelv
le doors the entire time, coor
lenched, his dark suit still immacul
ry cut through the
doctor stepped out, pulled dow
y boy. The Ca
ath, as if setting down a wei
d toward me, and seize
y nape, burning hot. He bent down a
years he had touched me with
manded in a low, hoarse voice. "You will
e were granting me t
ate wife provided, while keeping the woman
ed ever
s and gave him a flawl
dor, beside the elevato
n a silver cane, her sh
y husband and walked
into her des
nd pressed it into my palm - the receip
gravel. "The statutory waiting period for
eling the thick, expensive
essandro hurry into the delivery room, eager
tly began counting down
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