Secretly Cherished: From Forgotten Bride To The Mafia Boss's Queen

icate," the City Hall staff membe

t's face, while a high turtleneck sweat

usband, who seemed uninterested in the

sunglasses hid his eyes, and the beard lining his ja

said after steadying her voice, "but now that we're husband a

d into her hand. "That will not be necessary. If my grandmother had not threatened me with her surgery, this marri

inking. "I only meant that having your numb

h had already turned away and made his wa

y, and the identity or appearance of the

out of the City Hall and slid into

ing a small mole near the outer corner of his right eye. His sharply

red, "Yes, Mr. Fletcher."

y boarded a flight a

o more than four hours of rest each night, she comp

hout Borders and spent an entire year in active

r that rare medicinal herbs had been discovered in a remote mountain forest,

ea for the herbs, a rough and strained

of blood became increasingly noticeable. Soon enough, an overtur

the wreck, and her instinct to save a l

Ashley called out, "Can you

tures. Blood ran down from his forehead, and a small mole near

shed at once because the sharp stench

agged the tall man away from the wreck and

when a thunderous blast tore throug

a wave of blistering heat mixed with

ing into the tall grass, pulling the man down with her. A painful sound escaped As

ley tried to shove him aside while

, the man did not re

sh harder, only for the chill of metal

ey went compl

aid, pressing close to her ear, and t

hley how little pressure it would

. Had she nearly died after sav

replied, "Sir, I am the reason yo

her free hand and let her fingers inch

d prepared to strike back, the weight

grass as the man's overheated body slu

ggled out from beneath him, and he

patch soaking into his right thigh, where

s she studied him. Could the accident have

lood he had lost, and she knew that without imm

omeone like me today," she whispered, a

bullet was lodged near his inner thigh, dangerously clo

operly meant that his

n, whose brows remained tightly drawn, and

and sliced through the soaked fabric with care, exposin

he lifted an eyebrow and said,

nd, she organized her instr

lpel with precision, steering clear of vital vess

aned the wound, stitched the torn fles

er face as she examined her wor

op, peeling off the wrapper before letting the sweetness s

oughts. Why did he seem so familiar, as tho

row her brows, and she lifted a hand

strange sense of recogn

she searched her memory with eff

e from blood loss caught her att

ansferred the orange-flavored lollipop from her mouth in

she could, Ashley picked up her medica

oaching footsteps echoed from every direction, and se

powerful and untouchable Mr. Fletcher was reduced to this state, lyi

nd aside and shoved a gun firmly against his temple. "I

is finger slowly curl