sband held a party downstai
Rossi, tell his consigliere he was going to publicly reject me
ancient law while
s. When Dante appeared, she shrieked, clawin
mmand that froze my body and stole my voice,
master suite. I was demoted to the
ocking her baby, humming the lulla
my love. I'll sever the bond and
I'd hidden for four years to protec
was about to find out that the woman he betrayed was Alessia
finally
pte
sia
my husband had an aff
ingers. Cold. It was a sharp, unwelcome sensation against my skin. I set
drifted up-a swell of laughter and applause for a
other, Sofia, her consciousness reaching for mine across hundreds of miles. The
child. What i
dow. I could see the party spilling out onto the lawn, torches lighting
back, my thoughts a painful whis
he Underworld knew her as the Silver Hand, a woman whose influence was as vast and deep as the
ng like ash in my mouth. It was a convenient fiction Serena had spun, on
n my frayed nerves. *A Don blinded by a pretty face and a sad sto
the sigil of the White Wolf, meant to dampen my own aura, to hide the true power of my lineage so as not to b
Da
had believed in him. I had loved him. When we first met, it wasn't just an arranged marriage; it was a spark, a pull so stron
he Supremacy of Loyalty* is the first law of our wor
it,* my mother's voice was firm. *You are a De Luca. You are the tr
eaving
. But then, it was gone, leaving behind a cold, clean emptiness. It was done. The l
ound my heart. *My soldiers are waiting beyond the
ing presence of my mother receding. T
ld the small boy aloft for the crowd to see. Serena stood beside him, her hand possessively on Dante's arm, a triumphant smirk playing on
si heir, stood hidden and forgotten. I could feel their thoughts, a murky tide of whispers and assump
reassuring flutter from
was laughing, his dark eyes crinkling at the cor
his Consigliere, Enzo, his thoughts a worried murmur
d up towards the gallery, his eyes scanning the shadows, and a cold command flowed from his mind, meant only for E
't just a divorce. For our kind, it was a severing of the
ient laws forbade it whil
ke sharp little needles. "She has nowhere else to go. Pregnant
away the last of the pain. It forged so
no choice. They tho
my stomach, a silen
ut to find out ho