Total pages in book: 80
Estimated words: 75705 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 379(@200wpm)___ 303(@250wpm)___ 252(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 75705 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 379(@200wpm)___ 303(@250wpm)___ 252(@300wpm)
When the preacher said the magic words, “I now pronounce you man and wife”, I leaned in to kiss her and gave the signal for wildflower petals to be released.
They floated all around us, giving her the beautiful color and fairy tale ending I knew she would adore.
EPILOGUE
THOMAS
Icould strangle that fucking Cardinal with my bare hands for forcing me into this position.
Four days ago, I was a priest in Rome, a city which never fully shed its decadent and debouched pagan past.
It was glorious.
Now, I was exiled back to this hellhole New York City and facing excommunication.
As I leaned against a tree, watching my family celebrate my estranged father’s wedding, I knew precisely how the devil must have felt. The desire to destroy their false Garden of Eden just for the pleasure of seeing it burn was strong.
Then I saw her.
Mary Quinn Astrid.
The women who’d ruined my life ten years ago. That bitch.
My fingers tightened around my whisky glass, threatening to crack the crystal.
As I glared in her direction, an almost feral need to tear her life to shreds with my bare teeth rose in me.
Then my gaze landed on the perfect method of revenge.
Her daughter.
To be continued…