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

might love me back.

I left the gala through the employee exit.

Rain soaked through my coat before I even reached the sidewalk. Manhattan blurred around me in yellow taxis, wet pavement, and headlights smeared across the street. My chest still ached from the image of Damen kissing that woman under the chandelier lights.

I kept telling myself it did not continue reading …