LOGINMy bestie got wasted and begged me in tears. "Help me get into Caspian's bed! Please, spend whatever it takes, just get me out of this broke-ass life!" God help me. Caspian was the most ruthless Don in Chicago. I sighed. What could I do? I was her best friend. But I had one rule: never spend a dime more than I have to. The budget was set. The less I spent, the more I pocketed. She gave me $5,000 to buy a dress that would seduce him. I pocketed $4,900. So she wore a dress I made out of flea-market silk scraps. Her pitiful, broke-girl act completely won the Don over. Thrilled, she shoved another $1,000 into my hands to buy top-tier birth control. I skimmed $999 and bought a two-dollar bottle of multivitamins. Clutching that positive pregnancy test, my bestie looked at me like I was God. Later, the Don's ex, Cassandra—pure mafia royalty—came back for blood. Furious, my bestie threw $50,000 at me. "Ruin her! Aria, you're the only one I trust to handle this." But at the family dinner, that bitch struck first. "She hired thugs to attack me in the penthouse! They're hiding inside right now!" Yet, when Caspian kicked the door open. The woman's smug smirk froze. "Freaks... are you fucking freaks?! Who fills a room with life-sized creepy Halloween wax figures?!" ...
View More"Bought off for 500k?!"Nonna clutched her chest, nearly having a heart attack on the spot.The nurse curled into a ball, begging for her life.Seraphina immediately took the real baby from my arms.She swayed on her feet and collapsed perfectly against Caspian, her delicate face pressing into his violently heaving chest."Caspian, she's so evil!" Seraphina cried, looking devastatingly beautiful in her tears. "She knows you can't have another child. She wanted to end your bloodline completely! If it wasn't for Aria today, our baby would have been disposed of without a trace!"Flawless manipulation.Her words struck the Don right where it hurt the most.He wrapped his arms tightly around his fragile wife and child."Cassandra." Caspian ground the name through his teeth, every letter dripping with venom. "Since she loves wiping out bloodlines so much, I'll make sure she wishes she was dead."Nonna gasped for air, a bloodthirsty gleam flashing in her cloudy eyes."At all costs! Destroy Ca
"Are you insane?"Seraphina shoved my hand away. Her voice trembled wildly. "There are twenty-four people outside! The doctors have to state their names three times! And you're telling me my baby was swapped?""Look at his foot.""He's my son!" She snatched the baby up, crying right onto his face. "He has Caspian's nose!""Sera. Look at the ankle."She looked down.That little foot was pale and flawless. The inner ankle was completely clean. Not a single mark.I pulled the tiny glass bottle from my bag, unscrewed it, and let a drop fall on the back of my hand.Blue-black. Like solidified ink."I mixed this practice ink myself during my seventh year as a tattoo artist," I said. "It doesn't wash off. It doesn't rub off. You can soak it in alcohol overnight and it won't fade. This morning, right after they wiped him clean, I put a tiny mark on his left inner ankle.""What mark...?""The Blackthorn crest of the de Santis family. It's only three millimeters. If you don't look closely, it ju
"You want to hand the life of the future Mafia heir over to a bunch of blue-collar workers?"Seraphina sat on the bed, hands on her belly, eyes wide."Not just blue-collar." I counted on my fingers. "My Uncle Sal has been a butcher in Little Italy for fourteen years. Swings a cleaver better than a Sicilian hitman. My cousin Vinny is an ex-Marine, now head of security at a South Side mob casino. My Uncle Frankie is a union enforcer—can carry 200 pounds of contraband up five flights of stairs by himself. And my baby cousin? Last month he put a Ukrainian shooter in the ICU at an underground fight club.""...What exactly does your family do?""We're poor," I said. "And there's a lot of us."That million-dollar check sat in my bag all night. Honestly, I was itching to take a cut. By my usual rules, at least 900k of that belonged in my pocket.But not this time. This was my godson.The day Seraphina married into the de Santis family, her pre-nup properties and trusts hit the tens of milli
"Enough."One word from Caspian, and the entire room went dead silent.He folded the bank records and tossed them on the nightstand."Luca."Luca knelt up straight. "Boss.""I saw the parking lot footage," Caspian said. "You stopped my bleeding. You called 911. I owe you one. Get out. My men downstairs will give you a relocation fee. The de Santis family is covering your sister’s chemo."Luca practically bowed to the floor and scrambled out of the room.Cassandra went pale."Caspian, are you insane?"He ignored her. He turned to look at me. His stare made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up."Ten-dollar Ipecac," he said."...Yeah.""One-grand wax figures.""Clearance sale. Free shipping," I mumbled.He was quiet for three seconds. Then he reached out and patted my shoulder.I almost sank into the floor."At the wedding," he said. "You're the maid of honor."Seraphina laughed through her tears.Cassandra screamed. "You're still marrying her?! Caspian, she had men tailing you! She
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