A woman marries into a mafia family and engineers her own divorce to escape, believing she has finally outrun that dangerous world. But her husband refuses to let her go and puts a bounty on her head, turning her bid for freedom into a deadly chase.
Before I could speak, Donatello answered for me. Avril, the family's lawyer. You haven't met. His hand already on the small of her back?
I booked that restaurant. You're no business tonight. It's just for you. And with that, he ushered her away, leaving me standing alone in his long shadow a bitter smile touched my lips
was he that afraid of her finding out I was his wife if he just looked for one more second he would have known he wasn't signing away a shipment of goods but his eyes were already stolen by the girl in the doorway our marriage was a secret besides our parents no one knew I fell for him in college chased him
relentlessly for four years and got nowhere for three years after graduation I still couldn't let him go. Then, one day, I found him ambushed by a rival bleeding out in an alley and barely alive. I saved him. I nursed him day and night for a whole month. When he recovered, he offered to marry me. I knew he was doing it to repay the debt,
but I was arrogant enough to think I could win him over. Only after we got married did I discovered that his heart already belonged to someone else.