Claimed By The Enemy: The Jilted Queen

alcone mafia heir when his mother slid

husband had completely for

a, the orphan girl I had taken a knife for a

mother demanded my "bastard" child be era

tanding righ

warning glare, he made a cold, calculated c

watched

teps, and I woke up in a sterile hospital

ds. I gave up everything for him, yet he degraded me to a hidden mistress

ital room, rubbing her own swol

scream

ieved the hidden security footage of Xander letti

dismantle Xander Falcone's s

pte

and union officials when I slid an envelope of surveillance photographs ac

ion dollars and the deed to an offshore property, placing them before me. It was an offer to procure

gly still, cleared out by the armed men s

a body sunk in the harbor while stirring sugar into his coffee. He was the most feared enfor

d to his will. I had always known he was a man who took what he wanted

to my half-empty teacup, the silence between us gr

mble the words leaving th

g from a black town car, meeting Xander in secluded, rain-

ssing eyes that were a perfect, chilling mirror of the man I love

tucked away in the shadows?" sh

emed to catch in my throat, my lungs refusing to draw. The confirmation struck me

ith a sudden tension. "Does your husband

ugh, her fingers moving to idly adjust th

smoothly. "But illegitimate bloodlines are an impurity we

nail against the bond

eflexive, protective gesture. I pushed t

check by sheer will. "Our union is recorded in the Syndicate regi

ession that mingled pity with a

of the lounge swung open with a muffled thud t

ense, the air suddenl

e Falcone Famiglia. He was a titan of the old world, a

la, pressing a devoted, pro

focus, the pupils drawn to pinpricks, stripping

geries, Sienna," Silvio said, his

ed in my chest, squeezi

employed his associates to fabricate the registry and the church

ath my feet se

as promised to him

ander when he was just a boy. I grew up believing in

nd could assemble them into sense, and a sour bile rose in my throat. "No outside blood will inherit

ela's back. He meticulously escorted her toward the

Maybach waited, it

hed the legendary, protective dev

had once foolishly

ng me alone with the horrifying, un