LET HER MAKE THE TOAST. SHE KNOWS WHAT TO SAY.” MY MAFIA HUSBAND HANDED HIS MISTRESS THE CHAMPAGNE AT OUR FIFTEENTH ANNIVERSARY DINNER—BUT HIS 78-YEAR-OLD MOTHER ASKED
Chapter 1 – THE TICKET TO THE ASYLUM
“What was supposed to happen to me?”
I kept my voice low. I didn’t scream. After fifteen years of living in a mafia household, you learn that the loudest person …
My billionaire husband told me another woman needed him more than I did—while nurses were preparing to take me into surgery to save his sister’s life.
Chapter 1 – THE MATCH MY HUSBAND BOUGHT
“Graham, were you ever going to tell me before I gave her my kidney?”
The hospital room was so quiet I could hear the steady hum of Rebecca’s IV monitor.
Gra…
The night my billionaire husband chose his mistress over my mother’s 80th birthday, I stopped making excuses for him
Chapter 1 – THE DEED TO MY FATHER’S HOUSE
The silence in the living room was so absolute I could hear the grandfather clock ticking in the hallway.
Richard’s face drained of color. The arrogant, unt…
THE NIGHT MY BILLIONAIRE HUSBAND LEFT MY FIRST ART EXHIBITION TO CELEBRATE HIS MISTRESS’S BIRTHDAY,
Chapter 1 – THE PAINTINGS SHE CLAIMED AS HER OWN
“Mom, ask him why Madison has been telling everyone those paintings are hers,” my daughter whispered, her voice trembling with a mixture of shock and …
PUT YOUR HANDS DOWN! YOU’RE MAKING EVERYONE UNCOMFORTABLE!” MY 34-YEAR-OLD BILLIONAIRE HUSBAND
Chapter 1 – THE PREGNANT MISTRESS AND THE BOARDROOM COUP
The silence in my sister’s small apartment was absolute.
I looked from Lily’s small, moving hands to the man who was suddenly swaying on his …
THE MAN I LOVED TRIED TO ERASE ME
Chapter 1 – THE COST OF LOYALTY
Adrian froze, his tailored shoulders suddenly looking too large for his frame. The silence in the dining room was absolute, broken only by the rain lashing against the…
“TAKE OFF THAT DRESS, MARGARET. YOU’RE THE HOUSEKEEPER, NOT ONE OF MY GUESTS!” THE MAFIA BOSS’S FIANCÉE HUMILIATED HIS 58-YEAR-OLD MAID IN FRONT OF FORTY PEOPLE—BUT WHEN HE SAW HER QUIETLY PUTTING HER APRON BACK ON, HE STOOD UP AND ASKED, “MARGARET, WHO TOLD YOU TONIGHT WAS YOUR LAST NIGHT IN MY HOUSE?”
Chapter 1 – THE NAME THAT SHOULDN’T EXIST
“Because Margaret was the only person they would believe.”
Vanessa said it so quietly that I almost missed the words.
Luca didn’t.
He was standing beside …
“CUT THAT UGLY BLUE RIBBON OFF, YOU IGNORANT LITTLE MAID! YOU DON’T EVEN UNDERSTAND ITALIAN!” THE MAFIA BOSS’S FIANCÉE HUMILIATED HIS 25-YEAR-OLD HOUSEMAID IN FRONT OF FIFTY DINNER GUESTS—BUT WHEN THE MAID REFUSED TO DESTROY A HANDMADE WEDDING GIFT, LUCA MORETTI DISCOVERED WHY HIS TEN-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER HAD BEEN CRYING EVERY NIGHT BEFORE HIS WEDDING.
Chapter 1
“Vanessa… is this really what you’ve been teaching my daughter?”
Luca Moretti’s question hung over the dining room.
Nobody moved.
Vanessa stood beside the banquet table, her diamond br…
THE MAFIA BOSS’S FIANCÉE ORDERED ME TO SEND HIS SON AND A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD BOY AWAY BEFORE THEIR ENGAGEMENT DINNER—BUT WHEN LUCA MORETTI SAW THE CHILD HOLDING A HANDMADE CARD THAT SAID “GRANDPA,” HE STOOD UP AND ASKED, “DANIEL, WHY DIDN’T YOU TELL ME I HAD A GRANDSON?”
Chapter 1 – The Letter With His Father’s Name
For the first time since I’d known Luca Moretti, the man who could make powerful people nervous was looking at his fiancée as though he didn’t recognize …
“GIVE HER THE CHAMPAGNE, KATIE! SHE DOESN’T GET TO RUIN MY ENGAGEMENT DINNER BECAUSE SHE USED TO BE A DRUNK!” THE MAFIA BOSS’S FIANCÉE HUMILIATED HIS 27-YEAR-OLD MAID FOR PROTECTING HIS YOUNGER SISTER—BUT WHEN THE WOMAN WHISPERED, “I’VE BEEN SOBER FOR TEN YEARS,” MARCO VITALE STOOD UP AND ASKED, “THEN WHY DID YOU TELL ME SHE STARTED DRINKING AGAIN?”
Chapter 1 – THE PAPER IN ANNA’S COAT
“Bianca, what exactly were you trying to get my sister to give up?”
Marco Vitale’s question hung over the dining table.
His fiancée stood beside her chair, one …