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movement in the room was the flicker of the fireplace, casting long, distorted shadows across the mahogany walls. Shards of Dante's shatte
ture of absolute shock and a violent, brewing rage. But I didn't
a deliberate, calculated insult-and faced t
and unforgiving as a thundercloud. I dipped into a shallow, p
ivered. The alliance was sealed in the eyes of the Commission. What happens here tonight is not just an insult to me,
opped like an anvil. In
ating the cost of a war with my family. Behind me, I heard Julian draw a sharp, ragged breath, the color draining from his face as
. The Mafia Queen's face was a mask of strained, artificial sorrow. Sh
a sickeningly sweet poison. "You are, and always will be
e cast a look of utter revulsion at Sof
ter to dirt beneath her expensive heels. "She can be kept. A man has needs. But
oming the Underboss's wife was violently crushed into the shameful reality of a hidden whore
ing me to bow my head, swallow my pride, and acce
free from hers and took
and," I stated, my voice echoing in the
mask of pure fury, but I was a
ldez bride was promised, and a Valdez bride is here. The wedding feast is o
ore I shifted my gaze. Past Julian's pale face. Past Elvina's t
aning against the wood, bu
ow nod, then looked dead
words sealing my fate and igniting a match in a room full of gasoline
let out a sound that was half-snarl, half-di
aw tightened, his dark eyes widening in profound, absolute shock as he realized the qu
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