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SUBSTITUTE BRIDE FOR THE MAFIA DON Chapter 181
Dante's POV"I love your daughter more than I love my own life. More than anything. And I'm not asking you to just trust that, not easily, not after everything I've already done to her. I know I have to earn that back, from her and from you both. But I'm standing here asking you for your blessing. Because Andrea deserves a man who is brave enough to fight for her, out loud, in front of the whole world." My voice steadied. "And I am finally that man. I'm ready to be him. For her. For the rest of my life."For a long, long moment, Mrs. Marino said nothing at all.She just looked at me, the tears sliding down her face, the roses nodding gently around us in the warm evening breeze, the last of the golden light going soft and rose-colored over the garden walls. Somewhere the fountain trickled on. A bird called out and went quiet.And then she reached out and took both of my hands in hers, and squeezed them tight — tighter than I'd have thought her small hands could."Do you know," she said
SUBSTITUTE BRIDE FOR THE MAFIA DON Chapter 180
Dante's POVI took a deep breath, standing there among the roses in the golden evening light, and I finally said the thing I'd been too much of a coward to say the last time she asked."You asked me a question once," I said. "Back in New York. You asked me if I loved your daughter." I met her eyes and held them steady. "And I couldn't answer you. I stood there like a fool and said nothing at all, and I have regretted it every single day since. So let me answer you now. Properly. The way I should have done it then."Her hands stilled where they were folded in front of her. She went very quiet, and very still, and she watched me with those steady eyes so much like Andrea's."I love her." My voice came out rough and low, and I didn't try to smooth it over. "I'm in love with Andrea. I have been for years. Since the very first time she came to New York. Since she tripped and fell flat on her face on that airport floor and looked up at me all furious and embarrassed and beautiful, with her
SUBSTITUTE BRIDE FOR THE MAFIA DON Chapter 179
Dante's POVI would kill for her. That was the first clear thought that came, plain and absolute and immediate. This tiny bundle asleep against my chest — I would kill anyone who ever raised a hand toward her. I would burn the whole world down to the ground. I would put my own body between her and any danger that ever came for her, without a heartbeat's hesitation, and I would call it the easiest trade I'd ever made. The ferocity of it stunned me. I'd known I was capable of violence my whole life. I hadn't known I was capable of this — this fierce, tender, world-rearranging thing that had just detonated quietly in my chest over a sleeping baby.Right there, standing in that white sunlit room with Dove breathing slow and warm against me, I understood with total certainty that this little girl was going to have me completely, utterly, hopelessly wrapped around her tiny fingers for the rest of my natural life. Uncle Dante. God help me. She'd only have to cry once and I'd give her anythin
SUBSTITUTE BRIDE FOR THE MAFIA DON Chapter 178
Dante's POVAfter our talk in his office — after the gun, and the blessing, and the resolve that had settled hard and certain in my chest — Luca clapped me once on the shoulder and said, "Come. Come and meet my daughter."And there was so much pride packed into the way he said my daughter, so much warmth from a man who spent most of his life giving away nothing at all, that it made something ache deep in me.I followed him back through the old stone house, down the cool shadowed hallway, toward the baby's room. The door stood open. Warm golden light spilled out of it into the corridor, pooling on the worn stone floor, and I could hear soft voices drifting out — Dahlia's and Andrea's, low and gentle, the hushed careful way people talk around a sleeping child.We stepped inside.The room was all soft white. White walls, white curtains stirring lazily in the breeze from the open window, sunlight lying across everything in long warm golden bars. Dust motes drifting slow through the light.
SUBSTITUTE BRIDE FOR THE MAFIA DON Chapter 177
Dante's POVI'd rather stand here having finally said it, I thought, than live one more day as the coward who never did.The gunshot cracked through the room, enormous, deafening, ringing off the old stone walls.And I waited.Nothing came.I opened my eyes.The gun was no longer at my forehead. It was pointed past me, at the wall, a fresh hole punched clean through the old plaster, a thin drift of white dust sifting down through the golden light. And Luca was staring at me with an expression I had never once seen on his face in all the years I'd known him.Surprise. Real, genuine, undisguised surprise."You didn't flinch," he said slowly, almost to himself. "You stood there ready to die for her and you didn't even flinch.""No," I said. "I didn't."He lowered the gun the rest of the way, let his arm drop to his side, and shook his head slowly, something almost like wonder settling over his hard, scarred face."I spent my whole life believing love was a weakness," he said quietly. "A
SUBSTITUTE BRIDE FOR THE MAFIA DON Chapter 176
Dante's POVAfter Dahlia and Andrea disappeared down the hall toward the baby's room, their voices fading into soft laughter, I turned to Luca."I need to talk to you," I said. "Alone."Something moved behind his eyes. He knew me too well — better than anyone alive, really — and he heard the weight sitting under those few words. He studied my face for a second, then gave a short nod."Come with me."I followed him through the old stone house, our footsteps echoing off the worn floors, until we reached his study. It was a beautiful room, the kind of room that had held a hundred years of serious conversations — dark wood everywhere, tall windows thrown open to the vineyards rolling gold and green in the afternoon sun, shelves of old books climbing the walls, the whole place smelling of leather and paper and dust. He crossed to the big desk by the window and lowered himself into the chair behind it, and gestured to the seat across from him."Sit.""I'm fine standing," I said.He looked a
SUBSTITUTE BRIDE FOR THE MAFIA DON CHAPTER 77
Dahlia’s POVThe man’s knees gave out. He fell forward, trembling. “Please! Please don’t— I didn’t know, I swear! I didn’t mean—”Luca’s voice was cold and steady. “You saw her ring. You saw her guards. And you still touched her.”He took one slow step closer, his arm never wavering. The crowd arou
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Dahlia’s POVWhen we got back to the mansion, it was quiet. Most of the lights were already off, and the guards nodded as Luca led me inside. My heart was still racing from everything that had happened that night—the club, the stars, the kiss, all of it felt like a dream I didn’t want to end.Luca
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Dahlia’s POVThe words hung in the air like ice.My head jerked up, my heart instantly pounding. “What do you mean followed?” I asked, my voice trembling as I turned around in my seat. Through the back window, I saw headlights—bright
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Dahlia’s POVThe hum of voices dipped lower the second Luca stepped into the room. It wasn’t silence, but it was close enough to feel strange, like someone had turned down the volume of the world just for him. Heads turned, conversations slowed, and I could feel the shift in the air. Some people whi
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