All Chapters of Fake Wife to the Mafia King: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

Twenty minutes to get him up the stairs. The last flight I did on my knees.He was heavier than he had any right to be, all shoulder and muscle and no help at all. By the time I got the door open I had blood on my sleeves and blood on my face. Somewhere on the second floor I'd bitten my lip, and I c

The phone rang at noon.I knew it was Carlo before I looked. My father had one phone voice, too smooth and too patient, leaving gaps for you to fall into."Serena." He didn't wait for me to answer. "Bellini has announced the engagement to the family. It's public. You're his intended, and everyone in

He was asking me.I heard the words and did not understand them. I had heard my father order a hundred things in his life. I had never once heard a man ask me what to do with him.He had not lied to me. I had sat on that bathroom floor and checked, one question at a time, the way I had been checking

I could have taken the ring off. I did not. I looked at it on my finger, the way you look at a thing you have not decided about, and then I looked at him, and I left it where it was."You will need people to believe the other version," he said.He was standing at the desk. He did not sit. In this ho

He did not kiss me on the lips.I had been holding on to that, the way you hold on to a thing you are not sure you want to know. The kiss had landed on the corner of my mouth, a kiss for Vittorio and the room beyond the door, and I had stood in it and read nothing from it and told myself that settle