Mafia King's Pretend Wife

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she'd have to go down

her's house, the Palazzo De Luca, which was on the edge of the Amalfi Coast. The emerald necklace her mother

ride to anybody who saw her

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who might

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was her hu

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. Alessandro De Luca stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, a glass

ed standing.

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marrying

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mouth

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were butchers in fancy outfits

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te was a fortress

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the door t

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her f

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at, Elena in her bridal gown, stan

ther chair, cigarette sm

as buried

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brow. "You think

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