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

one afternoon while folding tiny white onesies with more tenderness than I expected from anyone connected to him. “Even as a boy. Like he thought if he controlled every room, no one could hurt him in one.”

“Did it work?”

Evelyn looked at me softly.

“No.”

I thought about that for a long time.

Damen never spoke much about his childhood. Only fragments. A continue reading …