Massimo Moretti once played chess with Cat past midnight, made her tea the way she liked it, and remembered every story about her grandmother’s farm, until she faced the truth that their marriage was only a treaty.
After his father died, the city’s most feared mafia don turned cold, locking doors and looking through his neglected wife as if she were a stranger.
She overheard him tell his men he might not love her enough to keep her, then found another woman’s note in his desk and realized someone else was living the marriage she had been promised.
Cat disappeared into a rented room no Moretti could find, learned she was carrying his child, and kept the pregnancy secret.
Four months later he found her visibly pregnant, began rebuilding her grandmother’s farm, and swore the frozen months had been a war to keep her and their baby alive.
Trusting his tenderness once nearly cost her life, and with enemies closing in, she must decide whether his second chance is a future or the last mistake she will ever make.
