*****

Ronan stared at the heavy mahogany double doors, the last threshold Lilia had crossed before vanishing from his view.

That woman.

Everything he had worked for nearly his entire life was vanishing like a bubble bursting in the air. In just a fraction of a moment, all was lost. The wealth and power that had been within his grasp evaporated. That old man—Pa—was supposed to make him the heir, the sole inheritor of one of the most formidable mob empires in Italy.

He could simply kill the ...