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ine lashes for me, had just locked me in a guest room. I was fo
of wine on his mistress, a wom
it to her to raise as her own. Later, she shoved me down the grand staircase, the
hed past me, scooping her into his arms and car
s brought to my hospital room and brutally
was a monster who believed every lie she told and punished me for her crime
y terminated the pregnancy. I took the urn containing our child's
pte
phin
st locked me in a guest room for throwing a glass of wine on his mistress. And in that c
me at the long mahogany table that had been in the Bianchi family for generations
with manufactured sweetness. "You look a littl
Everyone knew her place, yet she spok
across the table and gave her a small, tight smile. "Some things just do
ashed in her eyes before she masked it with a
simply rose from his chair, his presence alone enough to suffocate the room. He was a living myth in the New
you learn your place, Seraphina," he said,
corted from my own dining ro
a holding cell. The door clicks open and Lorenzo steps inside. H
s, not as a husband, but as a
forts. I cradle my stomach, a four-month swell that was once th
and on my stomach, but there is no affection in the touch. It's
voice a low growl. "A lesson in loyalty. You
s me dizzy. This isn't the man I married. This
he heir to the Bianchi empire; I was an outsider. When his father, the former Don, demanded he marry for an alliance, Lorenzo refused. He chose me. A
ystals. A testament, he'd whispered, to his obsession. He was the man who would fly his private j
man i
it when she brazenly referred to Lorenzo as "my man" at a ch
to of her on his phone. The look on his face-that obsessive, h
nd logical. "A way to root out weakness in our organization
d he would
l assistant." He flaunted her at board meetings, their heads ben
looked at me, his eyes cold. "
her smile triumphant. "He's almost mine, you know. He says once the baby i
pped. I threw a glass o
. It was from a private social media account of hers. A picture of her and Lorenzo, locked in a
dead weight in my chest. He was
m d
saved weeks ago, a discreet clinic two towns
n the silent room. "I'd like to schedu

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