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Alessandro kept his word, and from that day on, nothing dirty reached me.Time passed — enough that the whole New York chapter started feeling like something that had happened to someone else.Then one afternoon, deep in a stack of international tabloid gossip, I came across a mention of Kane.After being sent back from Europe, he'd apparently come apart at every seam. Word was he'd become a fixture on the worst streets in Manhattan — shabby coat, talking to himself, scrounging through alley trash while muttering about hundreds of billions in offshore accounts, about being the heir to the most powerful crime dynasty in Europe, about how Fran had always loved him.And then, one winter night in a dead-end alley, he'd found Alicia, also on the street, also nothing. He'd stabbed her with whatever he had on him, kept laughing while he did it, apparently. Said she'd taken his empire. Said she'd stolen the life that was supposed to be his.He died in prison not long after.I sat in the sunlit
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I was back at the estate before Alessandro arrived. He came in fast, and the worry on his face was real, deeper than he was managing to hide."Fran, I'm sorry. He should never have gotten close enough to reach you. I'm pulling in every contact I have, north and south, and I'll personally make sure he can't surface again.""It's fine," I started to say. "He's nobody—"I turned to face him, and my foot caught the hem of my dress.The floor came up fast."Careful—"Alessandro moved faster than I could process. His arm was around my waist before I'd finished falling, pulling me back with enough force that I ended up pressed flat against his chest.For a moment, neither of us moved. I could feel his heartbeat. The scent of cedar and something cool wrapped around me. We were close enough that his exhale moved against my hair.Alessandro's throat moved. The restraint he'd been keeping — carefully, for months — broke loose all at once."Fran." His voice came out low and deliberate. "I've been
After Leaving the Cheater, the Mafia Princess Found True Love Chapter 7
Coming home to the European operation was everything I'd forgotten it could be.Here, I was undisputed. The Don's daughter, the woman every family deferred to without being asked. Every morning started with a team running on my schedule; I traveled in armored cars and private helicopters; the signature rights to half a dozen cross-border operations sat at my fingertips.Three years in New York, living small to protect Kane's ego — hiding who I was, watching my budget, swallowing my identity so he wouldn't feel overshadowed. Looking back, it seemed almost impossible that I'd let it go that far.Alessandro was rarely more than a few hours away now.We tasted century-old vintages in a private vineyard outside Paris. We stood at the bow of his yacht off Monaco while the wind came in off the sea. He had memorized every preference I had, never asked me to compromise, and always had everything arranged before I thought to ask. The warmth between us moved slowly, deliberately, comfortable and
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Without my family's backing running quietly behind the curtain, Kane fell apart at speed.The blocks he'd controlled — never really his to begin with — got carved up by rivals the moment my funding dried up. Everything he'd built was built on borrowed ground.He ended up worse than the night I found him bleeding in that alley. At least then, no one knew his name.After the scene at the Stafford gathering, he became the joke of the entire criminal world. Every crew in New York knew the story: the bastard son who'd tried to coast on a woman's money and got nothing. The Stafford Family cut him loose completely — no support, no acknowledgment, nothing.The streets shut their door to him too.The loan sharks he'd borrowed from to fund one night of performance came looking every day, men with ink on their knuckles and blades on their belts, hunting him through the rain.The man who had once walked into rooms like he owned them was now the rat in the wall, shaking behind a dumpster in the wet
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Five days passed fast.In those five days, I went completely dark on Kane, and to his credit, he didn't push — because he was too busy destroying himself without any help from me.Without my money moving in the background, he had nothing. And rather than sit still, he borrowed against everything he had: his blocks, his territory, whatever scraps of credit his name could still pull. All of it went toward funding one evening of performance at the Stafford Family gathering. A custom suit he couldn't afford, a rented Rolls-Royce he had no business sitting in, every dollar borrowed at ugly rates and collateralized against the last things he owned.He wasn't scared. In his head, the moment the clock hit five days, my assets would fall into his lap and everything would sort itself out.The night of the gathering, Kane walked in like he'd already won — tailored jacket, chin up, smile on. Alicia was on his arm, dressed up and glowing.They worked the room with their drinks, laughing too loud, t
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Morning light poured in and woke me.Without the garbage in my life, even the air tasted different.I let myself have the morning. A three-hour treatment at a private members' club in Midtown — the kind of place that doesn't advertise, where every detail was arranged before you thought to ask for it. After that, back to the suite for a private showing of the season's finest jewelry, a jeweler who brought everything to me, because that was simply how things worked at this level.This was who I was. This was what I'd been burying for three years to protect Kane's ego.I was in the middle of paging through a couture lookbook when my secondary phone — the one I kept for outside contacts — buzzed.Unknown number. It was Kane.*Fran, why did you block me? I went to the apartment and the code doesn't work. Then last night I got hurt dealing with a crew dispute, went to pay at the hospital, and the card's been cut off. Is this about Alicia? I'll bring her over to apologize if that's what you n
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