Out Of Silence: Reclaiming My Life

I had been deaf for ten years after a cartel fire took my parents' lives. My fiancé, Alessandro, the Mafia Underboss they died to save, swore a blood oath to be my permanent refuge.

Two weeks before our wedding, my hearing miraculously returned. But the first thing I heard wasn't his loving voice—it was the sickening sound of him sleeping with his mistress, Sophia.

I stood frozen outside his office door as the man who promised to protect me groaned her name.

"This forced Family duty is a sickness to me. You are the only one I wish to take to wife."