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 w***e 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 heavy doors closed behind me, he locked them.
“On your knees, little sister,” he commanded, voice low and final.
I dropped instantly, the wedding dress pooling around me like a fallen a
