All Chapters of FRAMED FOR MURDER WHILE PREGNANT: NOW I'M THE MAFIA'S WIFE: Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

Marissa POVI was going to tell him about the baby. Instead, I told him nothing because by the time I walked through our door, my husband was already dead.The pregnancy test sat in my purse like a secret weapon. Three pink lines. Three impossible, miraculous lines after five years of trying, three devastating miscarriages, and enough tears to fill the marble fountain in our front garden. My hand had been resting on my stomach for the entire drive home, as if I could protect this tiny spark of life through sheer will alone."Chris, I'm pregnant." I practiced the words again, watching my lips move in the rearview mirror. Would he cry? Probably. Chris always cried at the emotional moments, proposal, wedding, every negative test that came before this positive one. "We're finally going to be parents."The gates of our Bel Air estate rolled open automatically. Security system armed, cameras recording, everything running like the well-oiled machine my father had built before passing it to m

Marissa POVSix hours in a concrete room will break anyone.I sat slumped in the metal chair, handcuffs digging still in my hands, staring at space still in denial . No more tears left. My body had wrung itself dry sometime around hour three, after they'd shown me the "evidence" for the fifth time and asked the same questions in different ways.I was so exhausted , my limbs felt numb and my thoughts were in disarray. " Your body is in shock." the female detective had said earlier with something almost like sympathy.My body. My pregnant body.My hand twitched toward my stomach, then stopped. I couldn't keep drawing attention there. Couldn't let them know how vulnerable I was, how terrified I was for the tiny life growing inside me. Eight weeks. So early. So fragile. After everything I'd been through, after three miscarriages that had nearly destroyed me, I'd finally been pregnant again.And now Chris was dead.The thought should have brought fresh tears. Instead, I just felt empty lik