Bride of the Syndicate:When Love Died and I Left Him Forever

I was a girl from the undertaker's district, hauling the unclaimed dead for coin, and for pulling the Don of the Falcone Family out of an ambush that should have killed him, he made me his bound wife in a procession of black cars that ran a mile down the avenue.

But in ten years under that blood pact, Lorenzo Falcone filled his estate with mistresses past counting.

This month he meant to install another: the most sought-after hostess of the Family's high-end club.

Heavy with child, I saw to every arrangement all the same, calm as ever.