He Killed Love, She Killed His Empire

the security monitor blinked to life, revealing my hu

laying the part of the devoted Capo, while his mistress smirked a

had packed my bags,

news: I was six weeks pregnant

t save us. I thought it

s wr

ver her own tracks, Dante didn't listen to his

man who swore to prot

pain in my abdomen before

white dress, I realized he

lled our

detonate the gas line and fake

ve Seraphina Moretti

turned to a city that

froze his assets, and watched h

ees in the rain, broken and desti

me back for

the ultrasound photo o

o, Da

pte

phin

the security monitor blinked to life, revealing my hu

was supposed to pledge his eternal loya

The cold metal of the necklac

alled The Shark because he never stopped moving and he never s

sperate. He

d his schedule and apparently warmed his bed while I p

I didn't throw the expensive

had sworn to protect me shatte

politicians, and the ports. He had wiped out the Russ

iated a raw, masculine power that

m. God, I had

love. I thought his violence wa

been a

e numbness was spreading from my chest to my limb

was explicitly forbidden t

ered on the

e said. His voice

sounded foreign, hollow. "You

," Matteo said, the Consigliere in him taking over.

I want a divorce. I

over the line, thi

now the rules. You married the Crown. You are a Vitiello

ered. "I have the accou

. If you run, you embarrass him. If you embarrass him, he has

is shirt now, his face composed, the mask of the D

already dea

up th

utiful. She was expensive. She was wearing a dre

gilded cage, singing for a master wh