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aiting for Gianna-my gangster husb
, the five-year blood oath I had sworn wit
were flung open, and Enzo dr
, indifferent to the way his brutal grip had torn o
arms, so gently it was almost obsessive-a tend
aster bedroom, made me an unpaid nanny to his ba
I had endured in a marriage in na
was exactly the escape signa
ment, took the hundred million dollars that was
pte
ress screaming in pain inside. I knew that the moment that bastard child was born, the five-
d strode out and, without a word, hauled me over to the bass
newborn: "Raise him as your own." His tone carried the ab
t once, without so much as
one family-a man who could plan a mob assa
aled the bloody crimes he ha
his had always been enough to make
York high society had whispered a
a gilded cage, keeping a sexless marriage while running herself
no idea what
luxurious kitchen, pouring himself a drink and pouri
the liquor in his glass, his tone utterly matter-of-fact. "That child is
l always belong to y
giving devotion he expected. My hear
the heavy crystal whiskey glas
I quietly picked up
y right palm. The estate do
labor, Enzo slapped a stack of family guardianship paper
sed, c
into the delivery room, I sat in the hospital corridor and though
e legitimate shipping empire my late mother had left behind-an empire th
n, my debt would be wiped clean, my mother's shipping routes and patents would come back to my na
pitiful love for my husband. Keeping her pregna
room doors sw
rridor, his heavy wooden cane striking sh
gunmen flanked the old,
ocked Enzo, who was trying to
ctable mother, to preserve the family's face," the Don order
pted inside the
the delivery bed, face ashen
it inside and was still dazed, found the door with her sho
ate growl rose i
led Gianna into his arms, and took
itation, he turned and shoved th
ad just stitched was
arm; blood welled through my fi
baby burst in
and hurriedly took the wa
d against the gaping wound, her hands shaking
en look down
f his suit jacket and wrapped it a
red his head and kissed the top of her hair-all the fi
life and his bloodstained hands as an excus
ain a hollow, sexless thing-he wo
nna, he had no b
d at the far end of the long corridor, leaving me
und pity and urged me to go after
ough my veins quietly hardened into an unbreakable,
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