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

appearing in my life like a shadow with manners. Outside the doctor’s office. Near the lobby. Across the street from my appointments. Always discreet. Always pretending I did not know.

Evelyn came twice a week, more often near the end, bringing soup, fruit, and stories of Damen at nineteen, twenty, twenty-five.

“He was always too serious,” she told me continue reading …