MasukI was going to tell my husband I was finally pregnant. Instead, I found police at my door, arresting me for his murder. Someone faked Chris's death and framed me with a man I've never met: Von Castellano, whose wife conveniently provided evidence against us both. The proof is flawless. The conspiracy is airtight. And I'm thrown into a men's prison where I lose everything, including my baby. But Chris isn't dead. He's alive, living in paradise with my high school rival and my company's fortune, after poisoning me for years to ensure I'd never have his child. Von isn't just any man. He's the secret son of a mafia king, and he's ready to reclaim the throne he abandoned. Now we're married. Not for love but for survival. For revenge. For power. They destroyed us once. Together, we'll become the nightmare they never saw coming. Because I don't forgive. And I never forget.
Lihat lebih banyakFive Years After Release August The summer Isabella turned nineteen, she came home for a week between her first and second years of law school and slept until ten every morning, which told me more about how hard she had been working than anything she said directly.She had her father's ability to appear composed regardless of what was happening underneath, and she had spent a year exercising that ability in rooms full of people who were smarter and better prepared than she had expected them to be, and she had not flinched and she had not failed and she had not called me any of the three times she had told herself she wouldn't call me before she called me. I had answered every time without mentioning that she had said she wouldn't.Some things you learn to hold without saying.She slept until ten and ate everything in the kitchen and sat on the back porch in the afternoons reading things that were not case law, which I took as a sign of genuine recovery. On the third day of her visit
Marissa POV Four Years After Release (August) Von found me in my office at noon, which was later than he usually appeared on the days he worked from home."You've been in here all morning," he said from the doorway."I was reading the manuscript.""The finished one?""Yes."He came in and sat in the chair across from my desk, the one that Isabella used to take when we had our serious conversations in this room, the one that Sofia occasionally climbed into sideways when she wanted to think out loud at me. It was a good chair for conversations. It had absorbed a great deal over the years."How does it feel? Reading the finished version?"I thought about how to answer that honestly. "Like something that has been in motion for a very long time coming to rest," I said. "Not stopping. Coming to rest. There's a difference."He nodded slowly. "What do you want to do with it?""I don't know yet. Dr. Walsh says to let it rest before I decide.""She's usually right.""Yes." I looked at the clos
Marissa POV Four Years After Release (August) Four years.I had been counting without meaning to not the way I had counted in the cell, with the desperation of someone measuring the distance between themselves and something they weren't sure they would reach, but the way you count something you want to remember. The way you mark time not because it is passing but because it matters that it passed.Four years since the night I came home through the back door of our house in the dark, Von's arms around me, three children asleep upstairs who would wake in the morning to find their mother returned from the dead.Four years of waking up in my own bed. Four years of breakfast before school and dinner after. Four years of ordinary Tuesday evenings and difficult conversations and the slow, nonlinear, permanent work of healing. Four years of a life that was mine again, not the same life, not the life I would have had if none of it had happened, but mine. Genuinely, completely, irreversibly mi
Marissa POV Three Years, Ten Months After Release (June) We drove to Cambridge in a convoy of two cars, because the boxes required it and unloaded everything into the dormitory room that would be Isabella's home for the next year. Her roommate arrived while we were still arranging furniture, a girl from Georgia with a quick smile and an immediately obvious capacity for friendliness that seemed to delight and slightly overwhelm Isabella in equal measure.Sofia approved of her immediately and told her so directly.Mateo carried the heaviest boxes without being asked and arranged them where Isabella pointed with the cheerful compliance of someone who understood that this was his contribution and was glad to make it.Von assembled the shelving unit with the focused silence of a man who had learned long ago that furniture assembly was his primary love language.I made the bed with the sheets Isabella had chosen plain white, because she had always found patterns distracting and smoothed th
Sofia POV Three Years, Five Months After Release (January) The regional student exhibition was held in January, in the atrium of the city arts center, which had high ceilings and good lighting and smelled like the particular combination of fresh paint and institutional carpet that I associated wit
Sofia POV Three Years, Two Months After Release (October) Mom found me in the studio in the corner of the basement that Dad had cleared out and painted white and put good lighting in after I came home from the hospital with a broken wrist from trying to paint in my bedroom in the dark on a Saturda
Von POV Three Years, Four Months After Release (December) The call came at 4 AM on a Thursday.I had been a light sleeper since Marissa came home, a residual habit from the months of her absence, when I had trained myself to wake at small sounds, when the house settled or a child turning over in t
Marissa POV Eight Months After Release (April)The Margaret Thornton trial was unlike anything that had come before it.Sixty eight convictions had led to this: the woman at the top of all of it, the architect, the one who had built an empire across three decades on exploitation and silence and the
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