This was the night everything ended… and everything began. Kai had given me one final instruction: “Wear your wedding dress. Meet me in the private chapel on the estate at midnight.”

I obeyed like the broken, addicted whore I had become.

I snuck out of the master bedroom while my husband slept, still wearing the lavish white wedding gown I had said “I do” in just days ago. My heart pounded with fear and shameful excitement as I entered the dimly lit family chapel.

Kai was waiting for me in the center aisle, dressed in a black suit, looking every inch the dangerous mafia underboss he was. The moment the...