The Mafia Boss Hunted Down The Woman Who Left Him — Then Three Little Faces Revealed The Family Secret He Never Knew

PART 12

He established paternity legally, requesting no forced custody. He sold his penthouse and built a legitimate risk-management firm with Silas. He attended therapy sessions, learned to braid Nadia’s hair badly, helped Priya build a model solar system, and stayed when Owen’s meltdowns lasted forty minutes.

Three months later, Wren kissed him for the first time, after he ruined a pot of soup.

“Was that forgiveness?” he asked.

“No.”

“Hope?”

“Maybe.”

Six months later, Wren reopened her food truck with Weston as a silent partner, her name first on every document.

At the end of summer, he proposed in the brownstone garden. “I cannot give back the years I stole from us,” he said. “Will you marry me again, without secrets, fear, or anyone else deciding what we are allowed to choose?”

“Yes.”

They married three months later. Everett Kade did not attend; the invitation returned unopened. Odalys’s father came alone. “Take care of them,” he said.