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"Dante Vitelli never begged for anything in his life. Mafia don. The man who could have any woman he wanted. He spent six years running after Ilyena—cold, beautiful, untouchable—while Nora waited at home. He never looked at Nora’s face. Not really. He never asked why she loved staring at him. He never wondered why she never complained. Until the night he found her a “long-lost brother.” That brother had his face. Now Ilyena means nothing. His empire means nothing. The only thing Dante wants is kneeling in front of another man’s ring. He flew back across the ocean. Stood outside her door all night. Said “please” for the first time in his life. But Nora is marrying someone else tomorrow. And Dante just realized—he was never her first choice. He was the replacement." "I didn't invite many people to my wedding, just a dozen or so friends and family for a meal together. No big ceremony, no long train on my dress, no shower of petals or champagne tower. I just wore an off-white satin slip dress, pinned my hair back with a pearl clip, got our license at the county clerk's office, and then went with my husband Kieran to have a lively lunch with our people. My husband Kieran is so good to me, didn't let me lift a finger the whole time. From the moment we left the house, he had me covered—stuffed bread and milk into my bag in case I got hungry, packed an extra coat in case I got cold, held my hand the whole way there and rubbed his thumb over my knuckles whenever I looked nervous. At the venue, he worked the room so I could just sit by the window and chat with my best friend Philippa. Sunlight streamed through the floor-to-ceiling windows and caught on my wedding ring, throwing a tiny, soft flicker of light. Philippa Moran got all emotional watching me get married. She took a sip of wine, leaned back in her chair, and looked at me for a long moment with something in her eyes I couldn't quite name. She's the one who walked through the last six years with me, so she k
