The Billionaire's Regret, The Heiress's Revenge

powerful Famiglia on the East Coast. What I didn't know was t

asn't our wedding date or our birthdays. It was August

e was nothing of me, not a single trace of the five years I'd given him. When he found me, he crushed her locket

e or money. But it was worse than that. He brought Isabella back, gave her my position at

she staged a scene to make me look jealous and unhinged. He roared at

lass of champagne over his head in front o

ife, and sent him the separation papers. This w

pte

na "Ca

was a killer, a king, the Don of the mo

anniversary, was that our entire marriage wa

elt entirely his. Dark wood, the scent of old leather and

supposed t

usual. Our anniversary dinner, the one I'd spent all d

leather-bound book on the shelf.

my stomach, a whisper of intuition

shelf swung inward with a soft click, reve

they were meant to be business secrets-numbers, n

d glowed,

t was quickly drowned by the bitter taste of five years of loneliness. Five years of being t

s I typed our wedding

day. ACCE

ay. ACCES

gh escaped my l

eard two years ago, one of his Capos speaking in a hushed, reverent t

d out. The day his first love, the girl h

n cold. No.

n their own, typin

e click

s. Inside, nestled on a bed of black v

g and laughing, so full of a life I'd never seen in him that it hurt to look. There w

He promised her the world. He promised

belonged to me. A photo from our wedding. A note I'

. I was a ghost i

study door openin

the open bookshelf, the open safe, the box in my hands. His handsome face, us

ce was quiet, possessing the

own face numb. "I'm

oreign and impossible. The w

and snatched the box from my hands. His fingers closed around the silver locket, crus

on his trousers, hi

ping with contempt, as if my heartbreak was

my voice stea

dramatic, Caterina. I'll take you to Sici

e thought he could erase her, erase

er," I r

he mask fell away, and

, a cruel smile touching his lips. "Without my nam

and walked out of the study, leaving the

in five years, I

meant to give me his heart, b