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The Mafia King's Wife Must Die

Chapter 2 The Man Who Would Not Let Me Die

Word Count: 1120 | Released on: 29/10/2026

Dante spun toward th

see almost nothing. The emergency lights had failed, smoke curled through the broken wind

Moretti, and y

mused and ruthless, but I had never seen what crossed his face now, a

her

d instructions," the str

his finger slid away from th

r em

k I could feel Dante looking at me and nowhere else. "Take all of it," he said. "The money, the territor

g bloomed along my neck and I gasped,

The arm around me went slack. I stumbled forward, and Dante caught me before I hit the floor. When

his palms, turning it toward the weak light fro

d before armed enemies without blinking and watched older men beg for mercy across his

othing,

t, and for one dangerous second I let myself stay there, wanting to believe that the f

about me when you can't explain

did not wo

em very

d not have come into my hou

hired som

lieve I would arrange your murder a

what to beli

ld shout. Instead he holstered the gun, shrugged off his jacket, and settled it ar

ing anywher

sn't a r

er why I don'

you sleep, Isabella. But you will not spend anoth

ecause I trusted him, but because the dead man on the floor suggested that Da

a third waited on the balcony, and a fourth was testing every window lock. Dante dismissed all of them except

ithout being searched. I want every camera recording from the l

dead ma

t who se

curity system was shut down from inside the house

e a document where I would find it. Long enough to arrange all of it.

Who knew you would be

my phone. I

ou had left

shoulders. "You want answers? So do I. I want to know why my name is on that page, and

at all, and somehow that made him more d

rcumstances right before you decided that marryi

owly. "Who told you hi

d to. I ha

the qu

chin. "Doe

illed your father may be the s

stood in the rain outside a warehouse, beside a black car, speaking to someone whose face th

her, the only f

taken?" My voic

before your

you ha

is expression softened, but only slightly. "Your father w

veryone knew. No one had ever tol

ather's murder," Dante said, and stopped, and

straight i

r fa

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The Mafia King's Wife Must Die

Sandra Steves Mafia

“My husband signed a contract to have me killed. The worst part? I fell in love with him before I discovered his signature. Dante Moretti is the devil in an expensive suit, the ruthless king of Europe's most feared mafia empire. Men kneel when he speaks, enemies disappear when he gives an order, and betrayal is a crime he never forgives. Unfortunately for me, he is also my husband. Our marriage was never supposed to be about love. It was a calculated arrangement built on family obligations, buried secrets, and motives neither of us was willing to confess. I knew Dante was dangerous when I married him, but I believed I could survive his world as long as I never gave him my heart. Then I discovered a contract bearing my name. My death had been ordered. My husband was connected to it. And someone had already decided how my body would be found. But why would Dante marry a woman he intended to kill? The deeper I dig, the more twisted the truth becomes. My brother is hiding something. My father's death may not have been an accident. An organisation that supposedly vanished fifteen years ago has returned, and its mysterious symbol keeps appearing wherever blood is spilled. Then I uncover a photograph that should not exist, a missing heir who may have a claim to my husband's empire, and a secret about my own identity that threatens to destroy everything I thought I knew about my family. Suddenly, I cannot tell who is protecting me and who is preparing to bury me. Dante insists he never ordered my death, yet his eyes tell a different story whenever I ask about the contract. He watches me as though losing me would destroy him, but he keeps secrets that could get me killed. And the more I discover about the monster I married, the more terrifying one possibility becomes. What if the man I am falling in love with is the only person I should fear? I should run. I should hate him. I should pray that whatever feelings have begun to grow between us die before I do. But when someone threatens to take everything from Dante, he becomes more dangerous than the man who signed my death warrant. And when he finally discovers who is hunting his wife, even his most loyal men will wish they had never learned the truth. Because the contract has changed. The target has changed. And the person who ordered my death has just made one fatal mistake. They gave the Mafia King a reason to keep his wife alive. Now I have one question left. When the truth comes out, will Dante save me from the people hunting me? Or will I discover that my death was the one promise he never intended to break?”