THE MOMENT CLARE SAW DAMEN MORETTI KISS ANOTHER WOMAN, SHE RAN WITH HIS UNBORN CHILD—BUT THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN NEW YORK FOUND THE BROKEN PREGNANCY TEST, FOLLOWED HER INTO THE SNOW, AND PROVED HE WAS MORE AFRAID OF LOSING HIS FAMILY THAN LOSING HIS EMPIRE

between us, he was willing to admit what he did not know.

And that became the reason I stayed.

Not because I forgot the kiss beneath the chandeliers.

Not because I forgot the fear.

But because he stopped asking me to fit inside his world and started trying to build a safer one around ours.

By the eighth month, I was huge, exhausted, emotional, and furious continue reading …