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My husband abandoned me while I was bleeding to death after giving birth to his son. Instead of coming to the hospital, Graham Ashford—the most feared crime boss in Chicago—told me to take our newborn, leave the country, and disappear from his life. Then I heard a woman laugh beside him, and my heart went colder than the hospital room. It was Vanessa Cole, the woman he had loved before he was forced to marry me—and before I could even process that, Graham calmly told me his divorce papers were already waiting.