Her aunt said ""eat less and find a husband"" at dinner — then the city's most feared mafia boss stood up from the next table
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Chapter 9 / 10
Chapter 9 - The Unfinished Plate
Life wasn't perfect. We had disagreements, we had losses, we had moments where the past tried to pull us back into the shadows. But we faced it together.
Julian’s old enemies occasionally surfaced, but they never made it past Marcus or the team we’d built. We had created a fortress, not of stone, but of loyalty.
I wrote a cookbook—a memoir, really—that became a bestseller. It wasn't about the mob or the socialites. It was about the ingredients of self-respect: finding your worth, refusing to settle, and realizing that sometimes, the hardest things to swallow are the ones that make you stronger.
