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

whether I had made a mistake by letting him find me.

Because maybe love was not always the fairy tale I had once imagined.

Maybe sometimes love was messier than that.

A snow-dusted coat left on a chair in a freezing apartment.

Ginger candies sent by a man too proud to say he was scared.

A powerful hand trembling over a growing stomach in a parking garage.continue reading …