Cast out and despised by her own family, a young woman finds herself drawn into the dangerous world of a powerful mafia don — and into a secret marriage that could destroy them both. As she navigates loyalty, betrayal, and forbidden desire, she must decide how far she'll go to reclaim her place and protect the man she was never supposed to love.
Evie and her mother are here to steal the Blackwell fortune, fortune, and you still treat her well? She probably came because she heard Dante would be bit her lip, looking fragile, but the smugness in her eyes was impossible to hide. Please do laugh at Eva. She cannot help the way she looks. The sympathy in her voice cut deeper than their
laughter. Lily did not like me. She believed people like me had no right to enter her world. By way, Lily, we heard you had a dinner last week. How did it go? It was fine. With who? mysterious? He is someone important. I was going to tell you later, but since you all want to know, I invited him tonight, too.
Look, he is here. The door opened. A tall man in a black suit walked in. I froze.
Adrian Moretti, my husband in Maine. Why was he here? The room went dead, quiet. Adrian Moretti?
He's just our age. Age doesn't matter. His family owns the ports, the casinos, the banks, every dark road on the coast. Only air.
And now he's the Don. I thought he never came to these things. He doesn't. Cold to everyone.
People stopped trying years ago. Every powerful family on the coast has been throwing daughters at him for years. He never looks at any of them. Then why is he here tonight?
No one expected him at an alliance dinner. Especially not with Lily. Lily's smile tightened. Don Moretti. Adrian gave a slight nod. His gaze swept across the room and landed on me.
Only for a moment, then he looked away. As if he had not seen me, I sat quietly in the corner and did not expose the fact that he was already married to me.