Divorcing The Don: Rise Of The Queen

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protégé lit up my phone

tic pet into my dead c

ly shattered a crystal glass just because my finger

of the hardened Capos, threatening to destroy my

n discovered the

rs ago, causing my agonizing miscarriage. And when faced with the und

ren civilian who would swallow her gri

ven Syndicate-the untouchable shadow board that

our child's memory to an inconveni

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pte

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ith a text from my husband's new protégé: I am moving

ness settled

ing my dead child with an animal, I blindly handed Dant

s brushed

e hurled the glass I had just touche

s way since our wedding night-when his hands trembled as he touched my skin, and he whispered that he could not bear to taint me wi

the tumbler echoed off

uming the amber liquid and

t the only sound was the hiss of amber

most hardened Capos

orks and stared at the dark

a man who had painted the stree

ith the same casual air he might use to consult his wa

ard the dull grind of his molars, and a v

from his tailored suit pocket and wiped

s if my touch w

his p

ot consume anything that was not exclusively his, any

is wife of

p of ash that had f

mile and addressed the

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continue

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led handkerchief onto hi

sa, pushed he

against the marble floor with

s trembling as she clu

whispered, her voice cracking u

r bloodline. She forgets her place

d at my

permanent stoop in her shoulders from

nausea was

lly shifte

ind of blank detachment a person

said, his voice a low, smooth b

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rdered. "You are ruining th

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my empty han

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he city lights, leaving us in a

lit up in

text from

o not want you to bow your h

urned a hot tra

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g at his tablet, reviewing

he dinner," he said

n automated announcement r

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to look at his im

er our marriag

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s in twenty minutes," he said, his

through the wrought-iron ga

, Dante stepped out and wal

im up the gr

t go to h

orridor and stopped in fr

ad been locked

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r was w

aking a picture of an expensive velvet pet

I asked, stepping into the doorway. The pretense

his phone and

smoothly. "She wanted to ensure the cli

stopped

I asked, my voice dropping to a whisper, thin and sharp as a shard of glas

ng to me, his expression one

ot be in here

nvenience, and her cat was the priority. In that moment, somethin