My\) Prot-e$-]ctive Mafia Lover

Serena Ha
^le was a dev$oted wife. B,;ut her h_ @usba[!nd ha (([dn't touched her\ in $mon?t+hs. So ;wh=;en a [stranger \ pulled,% her fro ?.m a bar @@_one ni+ght, she surr endered( to him - because( +i\,n her drugged@ haze,:^-_ she%#\: though*%t %[h[@* e was he.)r husband.
On+ ):e mistake
\*.
That stranger i
s Ev%,%a)*n Knight - the b,=\i%
ll=+.ion;aire u]+)-nderw ^or`^ld kin%g ;!now fund.\[ in^[
g her husband's[` compan
y. He kn;_o$ws;\ she's marrie d. He doesn't ?`care.
He's b-een w]aiting for her= for sixtee#n: yea$\rs - [since the rainy n`=ight she saved a beate$n boy
in an a
+?@lley and: ;#didn/$'t ![ev@$`en remembe.:r his fac;[e. @$-Bu](],t h^#e*/ r( emembe_red everything. Her @piano. H-#e!_r voice. The way t%[h
( e rain clung to her white $*dress.*
N[ \ow h\]e sits \.,across from.$]@ her at =% every dinner,.`+ wat#%ches her husband f^%@ake dev$ !otion, and # whis=!]p ers@,:"Y
ou `*do!\n't) belon %g to
?him."
And th$= e worst part?
+*:She.'s  starti ng to agree.
E,ven a
!!s she disc,overs  that h,er husband murdered her -p=+are: nts. Even as she p
,lans her revenge.%$
. Ther
$e's onl,y one man/ she trust=
%s (:]w@$i$th the+. blade.%?
!But trusti.[ng h im m$+ea:$ns betraying _:herse\#?;lf. ( And she's al+?ready fallen/[] fo\r him.