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ished wife of the city's most feared Mafia Capo and the beloved daught
. Instead, I found him there with his other family, celeb
s secret son. The ultimate betrayal wasn't his affair, but the sight of my own father's car
posing with my parents, and records showing my father had bankrolled the entir
ing cold and sharp. I was a ghost in a life that
, I sent a courier with my parting gift: a recording of their treachery. While the
pte
ana
take me to the amusement park for my birthday. He lied. I found him there with
nvinced I was the cherished, long-lost heiress, finally secure in my place.
e, almost absentminded gesture. His thumb traced my jaw,
ket over the cold space in
s managing for the Family, a move calculated to paint me as incompetent in front of my father, the Don. My parents tol
n, my best friend,
" she said, stirring her latte with more force tha
, defending a narrative I de
screen in a hopeful, girlish message to Ivan. Can
was swift.
amily busines
his time, it was laced with something shar
a. A man that conveniently busy is hiding something." She leaned fo
fertile ground of my n
tower of steel and glass. Ivan's secretary, a young woman
I... I wasn't
olding up a paper bag wi
s... at the Reese Gallery. In the W
throat. A cold dread, thick and suff
I pulled up to the gallery, I saw it. My father's bla
ust aware. The
dark hair and a smile that was a perfect, devastating copy of my own. Ivan was laughing, a relaxed, u
oed in the silent cavern of my chest. "Daddy, can
ed with me, drifted through the slightly ajar doo
. It was the s
n Ivan's arm. "Does she sus
und. "Aliana? She's a sweet, naiv
It was the exact same possessive, almost ab
e'd claim he was sterile. They would "adopt" Leo. Make him the sole, legitimate heir to the Donovan-Hughes line.
in my hand. A
of you.
hism, a fault line cracking through the bedrock of my soul. It didn't break me. It did
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