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

more than my monthly rent in Queens.

I was twenty-seven years old, exhausted from a twelve-hour Dallas shift, and suddenly carrying the child of the most dangerous man in New York.

Damen did not know.

And after what I saw beneath those chandeliers, I promised myself he never would.

A few minutes earlier, I had been alone in the gold-trimmed restroom, staring continue reading …