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

reached toward me.

His hand stopped just short of touching my coat.

“Is the baby healthy?”

I should have told him to leave.

Every instinct in me knew letting Damen Moretti stay even one minute longer was dangerous. Men like him did not simply walk into your life. They consumed it slowly until nothing existed outside their orbit.

But exhaustion weakened continue reading …