The Wrong Bride,The Right Wife
Dante’s arms came around her like iron bands.
He didn't speak. He buried his face in her chopped, dirt-stained hair, his broad shoulders heaving with ragged, silent sobs that shook his entire frame. The ruthless CEO of Valerius Holdings, the predator who had put a gun to my sister's head and torn Chicago apart, was gone. There was only a twelve-year-old boy on his knees in an Indiana scrap yard, holding the ghost he had spent half his life trying to bring home.
I stood up slowly, stepping back toward the doorway to give them the room.