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

dinner, every quiet touch, every coffee sent to my flower shop, every look I had convinced myself meant something real became something else.

A secret.

A distraction.

A woman he visited when the city stopped watching.

My fingers tightened around the pregnancy test until the plastic cracked.

Heat burned behind my eyes, but I refused to cry there. Not in continue reading …