I Married My Ex-Fiancé's Dangerous Uncle

I Married My Ex-Fiancé's Dangerous Uncle

Sutton Horsley

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I stood at the altar in a fifty-thousand-dollar custom lace gown, waiting to marry the boy I had loved since I was five. But Silas didn't say "I do." He answered a phone call, turned pale, and bolted toward the exit as if the gates of hell had opened, leaving me to face five hundred of New York's most dangerous criminals alone. He left me for a waitress named Lola. The humiliation was suffocating. The elite of the Five Families looked at me with pity, a Genovese princess rejected for trash. When Silas finally returned, he didn't apologize. He showed up with hickeys on his neck, clinging to Lola, and had the audacity to suggest I become his mistress. He even demanded I hand over my dowry-millions in weapons and cash-so he could fund their lifestyle and "redecorate" with her. He thought I was still the innocent girl who would beg for his scraps. He didn't realize that in the moment he ran, a shadow had stepped forward to fill the void. Dante Moretti. The Don. Silas's uncle. The most feared man in the city looked at me with dark, predatory eyes and offered me a choice: be a victim, or be a Queen. "Since you are to marry a Moretti," Dante said, extending his scarred hand, "why not marry the head of the table?" I looked at the door where Silas had disappeared, then at the Reaper standing before me. "I do," I whispered. Silas thought he had ruined my life, but he only cleared the way for me to marry the monster who would burn the world down for me.

Chapter 1

I stood at the altar in a fifty-thousand-dollar custom lace gown, waiting to marry the boy I had loved since I was five.

But Silas didn't say "I do."

He answered a phone call, turned pale, and bolted toward the exit as if the gates of hell had opened, leaving me to face five hundred of New York's most dangerous criminals alone.

He left me for a waitress named Lola.

The humiliation was suffocating. The elite of the Five Families looked at me with pity, a Genovese princess rejected for trash.

When Silas finally returned, he didn't apologize.

He showed up with hickeys on his neck, clinging to Lola, and had the audacity to suggest I become his mistress.

He even demanded I hand over my dowry-millions in weapons and cash-so he could fund their lifestyle and "redecorate" with her.

He thought I was still the innocent girl who would beg for his scraps.

He didn't realize that in the moment he ran, a shadow had stepped forward to fill the void.

Dante Moretti. The Don. Silas's uncle.

The most feared man in the city looked at me with dark, predatory eyes and offered me a choice: be a victim, or be a Queen.

"Since you are to marry a Moretti," Dante said, extending his scarred hand, "why not marry the head of the table?"

I looked at the door where Silas had disappeared, then at the Reaper standing before me.

"I do," I whispered.

Silas thought he had ruined my life, but he only cleared the way for me to marry the monster who would burn the world down for me.

Chapter 1

Vivia Genovese POV:

Standing at the altar in a fifty-thousand-dollar custom lace gown, I watched my fiancé answer his phone, turn pale, and bolt toward the exit as if the gates of hell had opened beneath him. He left me to face five hundred of New York's most dangerous criminals alone.

Silence didn't just fall over the cathedral.

It crashed down like a guillotine.

Silas Moretti, the heir to the Moretti crime family and the boy I had loved since I was five years old, didn't look back.

He didn't apologize.

He just ran.

The heavy oak doors slammed shut behind him, the sound echoing like a gunshot that signaled the end of my life.

I stood frozen.

My bouquet of white roses felt like lead in my hands, heavy enough to drag me to the floor.

The guests, the elite of the Five Families, shifted in their pews.

I could feel their pity crawling over my skin like insects.

A Genovese princess, rejected for a club waitress named Lola.

Everyone knew about her.

I had chosen to ignore it, believing duty and history would win.

I was wrong.

My father, a Capo with a temper that could level city blocks, started to rise from the front row, his hand reaching for the gun holstered inside his tuxedo jacket.

If he moved, blood would stain the holy floor.

War would start before the reception.

Then, a shadow separated itself from the altar's periphery.

Dante Moretti.

The Don.

The Reaper.

He was Silas's uncle, though he was only ten years older than us.

He was a myth made of nightmares and Italian silk.

He stepped into the empty space Silas had vacated, filling the void with a terrifying presence.

The air in the church changed.

The temperature seemed to drop ten degrees.

Dante didn't look at the guests.

He didn't look at my furious father.

He looked at me.

His eyes were dark, devoid of light, like the bottom of the ocean.

He held a document in his hand.

The dowry contract.

It was worth millions in weapons, territory, and cash.

"The contract states a union between the Genovese and Moretti families," Dante said.

His voice was low, a deep baritone that vibrated through the floorboards and settled in my chest.

It wasn't a question.

It was a statement of law.

He stepped closer, invading the space that should have been his nephew's.

I smelled sandalwood, expensive scotch, and the metallic tang of danger.

"Silas has made his choice," Dante continued, his gaze locked on mine, pinning me in place. "He chose trash over a diamond."

My breath hitched.

"Since you are to marry a Moretti, Vivia," he said, extending a hand that was large, calloused, and steady, "why not marry the head of the table?"

The shock hit me harder than the humiliation.

Dante Moretti was offering himself.

The man who reportedly cut the tongue out of a rival for interrupting his dinner.

The man I had feared my entire childhood.

I looked at his hand.

Then I looked at the doors where Silas had disappeared.

Silas had left me to be a laughingstock.

Dante was offering me a crown.

I felt the innocence inside me crack and shatter, replaced by something cold and sharp.

Love was a weakness.

Power was survival.

I looked up into Dante's predatory eyes and saw a flicker of heat that simultaneously terrified and thrilled me.

I placed my trembling hand in his.

"I do," I whispered.

Dante's fingers closed around mine, possessing me instantly.

He turned to the priest, his expression daring anyone to object.

"Proceed," he commanded.

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