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

But the baby shifted inside me for the first time that night, a flutter so small I might have imagined it.

Damen saw my face change instantly.

“What?” he asked, panic already sharpening his voice.

I took his hand before I could think better of it and pressed his palm to my stomach.

“Wait.”

For a moment, nothing happened.

Then it came again.

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