He Raised A Glass To My Death

I ended things with my Mafia-lawyer boyfriend cleanly. Completely. What I never told him was that I had only gotten close to him in the first place to uncover the mastermind who had sent his entire family to hell six years earlier. What he never told me was that on the day we broke up, he had already booked the highest chapel in Manhattan for our wedding. Six years later, he went from a federal fugitive to the "uncrowned king" of New York's underground courts, returning in force with a rebuilt Moretti Family behind him. At the welcome-back banquet, his new ally—Victor, the Consigliere's only son—announced publicly that he had eliminated a "traitor who attempted to sell Family intelligence." Dante personally raised his glass and ordered that the body be dumped into the Hudson River as a "Jane Doe." But no one knew the truth. The woman Victor had shot dead under the name of "traitor," the woman now sinking to the bottom of the river— was me. ...

Oleh Stormborne Princess