Cut by the Don
Snowthe don's counterfeit heartthe night i saw my don burnunwanted bride: betrayed by the mafia donreturn of the unwanted daughter
"At the heart. It will collapse his primary credit line within days, not weeks."
My grandfather watched me, his expression unreadable. But for the first time, I saw not pity, not fatherly concern, but a fierce, new respect in his gaze. This was no longer theoretical. It was a battle plan. And I was the general.
Weeks bled into a month. The broken woman from the storage room was gone. Her pieces were fused back together with steel and cold resolve. The brand healed into a raised, pink scar. I looked at it each morning in the mirror. Not with shame. With cold acknowledgment.