The Unwanted Bride Becomes The City's Queen

lo crime family, born solely to provid

Dante Moretti, the Don of Chicago, back to health in

my name, my credit,

with nothing but cold di

, Dante used his body to shield Isabella, l

cratch, I lay broken, listening to my parents dis

e saw me wearing the lava stone bracelet I had worn in t

my father t

le Dante covered Isabella's eyes,

love in my hea

ed Dante a gift box containing a casset

amily, threw my phone out the car window

d realizes he married a monster, I will b

pte

na Viti

y heart out in my previous life didn't sting half

don, essentially telling me to go d

t of a surgical saw vib

d vanished, abruptly replaced by the suffocat

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e, the kind that once mad

the Vitiello crime family, regarding me like

ty is next month," my mother added f

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life, I h

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d and sworn on my life that I

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back to health in that safe house whe

ed at me with

at me with

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at the pl

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cou

spare was lucky not to be

sounded strange to my own e

l stay there until the wedding is over. Maybe longer. We'll

ered thi

creaming that

g me so hard my lip split, tas

my worth, only to end up as a literal organ ba

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nd promised me the world, only to look at

d up th

and sharp against m

," I

in the room

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," I repeate

. Her eyes narrowed, suspic

she asked. "You're not going to run

ie

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. "I won't r

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let them drag me int

chose the beautiful li

walked toward the

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and hovering on

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t," I w

office and down the

lla hanging in the foyer. She

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my room, the ghost of my

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