Chapter 246

ELENA

Cassian was right. This is what my family wanted. It’s what I was supposed to do. But they wouldn’t get my blood. And my husband would see that I wasn’t what he thought. The Ndrangheta would cancel the peace deal. My husband would reject the marriage. I would be left alone, ashamed.

It would ruin me. My family would turn their backs on me. No one would want to marry me after that. And in our