The Bride He Refused to Lose
"He isn't a weapon of annihilation..."
Lorenzo forced himself to his feet, stepping beside Lorrie and wrapping a protective arm around her waist. "Then what is he?"
"He is the Creator," the First King rasped, his voice trembling. "He is born to erase the old world—the Gate, the Guardians, the Mafia—and build a new order from their ashes."
Suddenly, a strange, resonant silence fell over the chamber.
Every mafia soldier standing in the room—men loyal to Massimo, men loyal to the cartels, mercenaries from every corner of the world—dropped to their knees in unison. They did not bow to Lorenzo. They did not bow to the First King.