THE MOMENT CLARE SAW DAMEN MORETTI KISS ANOTHER WOMAN, SHE RAN WITH HIS UNBORN CHILD—BUT THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN NEW YORK FOUND THE BROKEN PREGNANCY TEST, FOLLOWED HER INTO THE SNOW, AND PROVED HE WAS MORE AFRAID OF LOSING HIS FAMILY THAN LOSING HIS EMPIRE

for almost a full minute.

Then he said, “A son.”

I looked over at him.

“You sound scared.”

“I am.”

The admission landed quietly between us.

Damen stared straight ahead through the windshield.

“I know how to build an empire. I know how to break a man’s confidence before he speaks. I know how to keep enemies from crossing lines.”

His voice roughened.

“I do not continue reading …