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

warmth spread quietly through my chest.

Damen always hid concern beneath control. Expensive gestures. Silent protection. Care disguised as authority.

It was the only language he truly knew how to speak.

Evelyn spent twenty minutes fixing the rattling radiator while I sat wrapped in blankets, sipping tea she had brought. For the first time in days, the continue reading …