The Mafia Don Chose Her, Now Watch Me Rule

, compliant Mafia wife to the ruthl

y fifth-anniversary present-a custom armore

unds of millions to buy her a he

r the Vitiello family's heirloom diamond necklace s

hreatening surgery to remove an old piec

Dante's verbal authorization

sabella right now, she's having a panic

rrified doctor at gun

ng table, bleeding out in agony while th

my absolute devotion and silent sacri

ring on his mahogany desk, and wa

to his greatest rival

itiello Family, and I have you

pte

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ork Famiglia. He had stepped out to take a call and forgotten to close his secure session; the screen still glowed with the private server he assumed n

of ice in the lung: if I did not sever my blood oath ton

nt, bitter tang of gun oil. My fingers, tracing the edge of th

was a man who commanded thousands of lethal soldiers and

o him in an arranged marriage to secure

red his coldness, managed his household, and turned a blind eye to t

een in front of me were a

rative, heavily guarded smuggling route.

. Ever since her husband took a bullet that was meant for Dan

to build behind my r

round fight club last month. They had muttered about how D

ust as the heavy oak doors

eyes scanning the room with the predatory f

ie, looking exhausted

began, and the name felt like a foreign object in my mouth. "Can I

and looked at me as if I had beg

no place for you,

nded submission-and stated flatly that it

l, crept over my skin. I was his wife, ye

completely oblivious to the fact that my

xcused myself, stepping o

my face, but it did not clear th

n sweat, slid twice before it could activate the screen. I dialed a

ly offered them my strategic kn

something small but real-a shipment route, a safehouse location. If it checks out, we'll arr

hey would arra

yal soldier and my assigned bodyguard, but over the year

w current of sound. "I am preparing to leave New

ment before he simply said, "I

already seated in his leather chair, re

?" he casually asked, his

ing the air from my lungs

He informed me he had to stay up all

as compromised," he muttered.

pushed the words through. "You still need to upgrade the sec

off with a fli

is immense right now," he said. "Isa

custom armored Cadillac you ordered months ago?" I asked.

brief tightening around his ey

mitted. "You rarely leave the estate anyway, Elena. Th

ivate phone rang. I saw Isabel

n speaker as he wal

, Dante, I love the armored car! The soldiers

a softening of the mou

g to a murmur. "Stay safe, Isabell

me, his expression harden

complexities of Family lo

eady by the new, hard thing th

ght, Dante.

ving-and saw, for the first time with perfect clarity, a stranger who had bee