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The days that followed were peaceful.Money, kids, a career, and no husband. Life was liberating.And being away from the Family business gave me a sense of security I hadn't realized I was missing.I didn't have to worry that my husband could be killed at any moment. I didn't have to deal with all that trouble.It was only then that I realized I had never liked the Mafia life.I had just ignored it, for Cassius.After a period of silence, Cassius's love life exploded in the tabloids.Mob princesses, movie stars, even young models…The whole underworld was talking. They'd never seen anything like it. How repressed had he been before to be letting loose like this now?And with it, they started calling me a jealous shrew.I paid it no mind.At another banquet, I went alone.I saw Cassius. His date was a different woman from the one in the last news story.A lot of people were looking at me, probably hoping to see the ex-wife go crazy, get jealous, and throw the new girl out.I only said

I rejected Cassius's proposal."No matter what you say, I'm not reconsidering our relationship. Please leave.""You know me. When I make a decision, I never go back."The light in his eyes died.It was as if he had fallen into an endless darkness, from which he would never recover.To be honest, when we divorced, I had a feeling he might regret it.His mother took the money and left after he was born. His father never loved him. He craved a happy, complete family more than anyone.And he'd had the vasectomy. The chances of having more kids, even with a reversal, were slim and complicated. Only I could give him the perfect family he wanted.I just didn't expect him to regret it so quickly.After I rejected him, he left, completely dejected.The next time we met, he asked to see me at a coffee shop. He was back to his old self: a cold, imposing Don in a tailored suit.He seemed calm, clear-headed, doing everything by the book.I breathed a sigh of relief. A man in his thirties shouldn't