# Wed to the Ruthless Don

Author: Vera Blackwood
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Genre: Mafia-Dark-Romance

## World
She married Chicago’s deadliest don with a dagger under her gown—now she must decide whether to kill him or save his life.

## Tropes
- Deadly Alliance
- Forced Marriage
- Enemy to Protector
- Hidden Agendas

## Chapter 1 teaser
### A Bride for a Truce

My father's hand locked around my elbow like a steel cuff. He marched me down the center aisle of Holy Name Cathedral the way you'd shove a heifer toward a slaughter chute. "Smile," he muttered through teeth that barely moved. "Two hundred people are staring." They sure were. Half the pews were packed with men who'd helped put my mother in the ground fourteen months ago. Every one of them had worn black, squeezed my cold fingers at her wake, and lied to my face about how sorry they were. I smiled. The skin across my cheekbones felt like it was splitting. My mother's antique lace scratched my inner thigh. Right under the hem, strapped flat with surgical tape, a four-inch stiletto sat warm against my pulse. Salvatore had honed the edge at the kitchen table last night, nursing an eighteen-year-old scotch, telling me what an honor this was. A sacred peace offering. A bride to stop the bleeding. Nobody asked me. Men like them never ask. They just wrap you in silk and call it family loyalty. At the altar, Dante Ferrara turned. I'd studied the surveillance stills. Blurry courthouse press shots. A rainy cemetery frame where he hadn't even bothered to take off his shades. None of the paper matched the real thing. He was massive. Tailored black wool, black silk tie, shoulders square against the marble saints. His big hands were folded in front of him, dead calm, like a man checking his watch during a delayed flight. Not nervous. Not eager. Patient the way an iron gate is patient. This was the man who'd signed off on my mother getting executed in her own driveway. My father peeled his fingers off my arm and stepped back. It didn't feel like freedom. It felt like walking off a ledge. Dante offered his open palm. I didn't take it. A knot jumped in his jaw. He caught my bare wrist in

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