Reborn To Reclaim His Dying Bride

d I had maybe weeks left, my hand faltered. The ceramic figurine-a gift f

corner with dried blood. A marker. One absolute favor from S

ister's life to force me out. On that same

a brutal betrayal-breaking his heart

e, I redeemed the marker ju

nnounced his arranged marriage to a rival family's daughter. His mother s

ying body's failure, ready t

down my door and fo

entire underworld dropped to his kne

pulled me into his arms, and looked

Famiglia to the

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had spread and I had maybe weeks left, my hands shook so har

he floorboards of my s

corner with dried blood. A marker. One absolute favor from S

now, I'd die without

athing was shallow and labored. Every black-market treatment, every desperate g

That small movement-just bending

icket. It was

ay, back when he was just the heir to the Falcone Famigli

aid, "I don't care where I am

r threatened to put a bul

e hospital called

o he'd let me go, so he'd survive the succession w

en ambushed by a rival family. He survived-but the boy I loved didn't. The man who

ey now cal

e number. The phone slipped twice before I managed

rang. Onc

oice was polished and e

on my chest. I couldn't

oice, low and rough, came

hock wave. Five years, and he still o

ne," h

man the papers wrote about now-the one who'd climb

ara," I

kind that presses

warmth. No hesitation. J

igurine. I fou

d. The woman murmured so

asked. I just needed to hear

minute." Then to me: "You have one favor

ne wen

my knees to my chest. The pain in my stomach was no

in, dropped her nursing bag, and was across the r

said I had weeks. I

" Serena begged, her voice crac

ead against

ian blood would get Silas killed. She'd shown me photos of Serena walking home from her clinic-a sniper

yal so cruel it drove Silas away

into Serena's scrubs. "I just

wed-out face. She saw the desp

red the pieces with shaking hands, arranging them

floor. An encrypted tex

erary. From New

ails was a single me

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