Married To The Mafia King, Pregnant With His Heir
He sank into the chair he had been sitting in, and in the dim light his face looked older than I had ever seen it, with the kind of exhaustion that comes from carrying a lie long after it stopped being bearable.
“I had no choice,” he said. “They were going to kill me, Bella. Tonight. In this house.”
“And instead you offered them me,” I said. “As if I were a debt you could simply hand over and call the books settled.”
“I offered them a marriage,” he said, as though dressing the transaction in a ceremony changed the fact that I had been the currency all along. “Damiano Rossi doesn’t just take what he wants. He negotiates. He agreed to forgive the debt if you became his wife.”