The Don's Perfect Forgery
To repay Victor for saving my life, I gave up a brilliant career as one of America's finest neurosurgeons and willingly became his trophy wife.
For seven years, Victor lavished money on me and treated me with bone-deep tenderness. Yet his obsessive rules suffocated me.
Every other week, I had to subject my scalp to agonizing bleach treatments to keep my hair icy platinum.
I had to bathe in a discontinued Venetian white iris perfume.
And I had to wear a fake beauty mark at the corner of my right eye.
I once mistook it all for the obsessive devotion of a Mafia Don. Then, on the eve of our wedding of the century, I found a wall covered with portraits of another woman.
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