Broken Vows: The Mafia Princess Strikes Back

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ice thin and sharp enough to cut glass. Her manicured finger, trembling with

woman! You made Bob

ome in a bland, predictable way, was twisted with disgust. He looked

ittle gasps, was Bobby Little-his mistress, the woman

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poplectic face, over Jerrell's co

tical. A perfect,

ready lived this

They had branded me a monster, broken the engagement, and cast me out. My own family disowned me to save their business ties.

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body, before the wedding, before the accusatio

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spine, but I didn'

room, the same faces. But this time, I wasn't the screaming, pleadin

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y steady, cutting through Margaret'

. "Margaret, as far as I am aware, the only legitimate

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d rushed to her face, turning it a

epping forward. "Don't you dar

t a sliver of something akin to pity. He was a fool.

y head. "Jerrell, are yo

"Jerrell," she whimpered, pressing her face i

d around my legs. It was a dress I'd bought for a celebration that would now ne

window, my back to them. The manicured gardens of the Griffin estate stre

g with an authority I hadn't known I pos

audacity to call this a farce? Is this ho

My brown eyes, which people often called w

No. Today, I'll teach yo

, but I was faster. My movement was fluid, practiced-the muscle memory of a woman who had alr

number fr

he first ring. No gr

ame and felt the ghost

er cold eyes and the way she moved like a shadow given

trument of absolute control. And such instruments

cation Protocol.' I n

dismantled falsehoods with medical precision and buried scandals before they could bre

aced the phone on the t

a, crossing my legs at the ankle. A qu

her. Their shock was a palpable thing, a

cise and deliberate, "as of this moment, the engagement betwee

ropped. "What?

voice. "This marriage is not for you to

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toward Bobby, who was still trying

ening into something sharp and unforgiving, "perhaps we should first

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