Rising From Ice: The Mafia Don's Regret

“Seven years ago, my Mafia Underboss husband diverted our only rescue helicopter to his mistress. He left our five-year-old son to freeze to death in my arms on a freezing mountain. He believed I threw myself off the cliff with our boy's body that night. But I crawled out of the ice, changed my face, and spent seven agonizing years becoming the underworld's most ruthless extraction specialist. Tonight, Lucas-now the Don of the Regional Syndicate-stepped into my tactical outpost. He didn't recognize the heavily scarred woman standing before him. He threw a two-million-dollar contract on the table and threatened to slaughter my crew if I refused his command. The mission was to climb a cartel-held death pass to save a trapped girl before her oxygen ran out. That girl was his and his mistress's daughter-the very reason my son was left to die. How could the man who callously sacrificed his own flesh and blood now play the desperate, loving father? I stared at the arrogant Don and the fake tears of the mistress clinging to his arm, feeling the cold weight of my son's silver dog tag against my chest. "The Lena you knew is dead," I said, pulling the tag out for him to see. Today, I will drag him up that frozen peak, and he will finally pay his blood debt in the ice.”