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

Steam lifted from the sidewalks while sirens echoed somewhere downtown. New York never really slept. It just changed masks after dark.

By the time I reached my apartment in Queens, it was nearly one in the morning.

My tiny studio greeted me with silence and flickering kitchen lights I had been meaning to replace for two months. I locked the door immediately continue reading …