Seven Years Wasted
I had been in love with Leo, the Don of a Mafia family.
For seven years, I was there with him through the darkest nights, cleaned up after him more times than I could count, and convinced myself that he would give me the ending I deserved.
When word got back to me that Leo was planning a proposal, I could barely contain the tremble in my fingers.
However, the woman he was proposing to wasn’t me.
My eyes burned, and my voice was barely a whisper. “Why?”
Leo pulled me into his arms in assurance, his chest warm against my skin, but the words coming out of his mouth were anything but.
“Nina has cancer. Her only wish is to know what it’s like to be proposed to. I couldn’t say no to h