The Last Bell at St. Patrick's
We'd been together seven years before Damian Caruso finally agreed to the wedding.
Inside St. Patrick's Cathedral, I stood at the aisle in a lace gown, surrounded by the most dangerous mafia elders from New York and New Jersey. Three minutes, and the Don would take his vows and take over the rest of my life.
Then he answered a phone call. "Bella got into a car accident. In Brooklyn."
Bella. The orphan of a dead servant. The "life debt" Damian owed her. Her needs always came before mine. When a gun was to my head, he was at her therapy. When I nearly went into shock from fever, he missed my call because he was staying the night with Bella, who's afraid of the dark.
Now, at our vows, Damian tu