Regretful Don: The Queen You Threw Away

d to the lethal Underboss, Dante. We had bled on th

in his new mentee, Mi

r Mafia Blood Oath seventeen di

ed home at noon not to see me, but to grab a

night, he tossed a cheap, last-mi

ier Fixer and give the title to Mia," he said, his vo

ecurity issue, and he immediately headed for the door,

y closet, realizing every gift he ever gave me was though

soap just to please him, yet he let the heavy

my talents on a man who h

g, I didn't go

o's desk, permanently blocked Dante's numb

se to build an e

pte

na

a stray drop of claret from his new charge's lip, oblivious to the message that glowed on my hidden phone: "The C

hick with cigar smoke and the heav

h-stakes celebrat

is one thousandth successf

forcer whose name alone commanded

ck suit, radiating a dangerous, masculine autho

same terrifying pres

st day moving from ground logist

ledger slip from my grasp right at the se

out, I would have bee

o cover my mistake and shielding me fro

t tied my

and clawed out a dominion over the East Coast's primary smuggli

es, an untouchable pair, promis

to be the night we took our Ma

ad promised to finalize our vows

nteenth time, he

my vision swimming as a rival Capo

avily to maintain the fragil

any table, hoping to catch Dan

did not spare me

irely focu

iate, a young woman he had taken

arred hands delicately cutting a piec

s full and her wine gl

e vodka dow

isting my stomach int

n the shadows near the bar, their

ed whispers, the soft c

pitie

e syndicate was squandering her loy

the banquet f

epped out of the restaurant, my legs t

cting him to escort me to the sanctua

d resting protectively on

efore I could reach

thoritative tone he usually reserved for his subordinates. "I n

of the city wind biting t

" I asked, my voice

a dismiss

he Blood Oath. We wil

wait for

hurried to place Mia into the

se her door with

driver's side, got in,

way, I saw Dante carefully

t the cold win

tips, leaving a peculiar, pins-and-needl

strict rul

the smell

ness, he forced me to ride with the windows

in the passenger seat wh

rules only applied whe

th, the freezing a

e identification bad

UV disappear into the dark, a col

enth time he had lef

not be an

mpty street, a faint smile touchin