Eight Years of Love, and the Don Owes Me Three Lives

Alice has waited eight years for Jason Capone, the Don, to marry her and give her the title of Donna. Instead, on the day she receives her ultrasound report, he tells her he has already married Sofia Black for control of the docks. He offers her half the underground operations in New York, but she refuses to live as a mistress and vows to end the pregnancy.

Jason will not let her go. He seizes her wrist, roars that the child carries Capone blood, and warns that if she goes through with it, they are finished. When she tells him they ended the day he married Sofia, he reveals a colder weapon: her father's shipping company faces seized shipments and crushing penalties, and only he can make the trouble disappear.

Alice books the surgery for three days later. Jason's messages swing from pleas to threats, and on the morning of the appointment her mother arrives, escorted by his men, begging her not to cross the Capone family. Alice slips into the stairwell and calls Jason, who admits he controls her father's fate. She must choose between her family and the child she carries.