To Save a Stranger, She Kissed Him in Public—Unaware He Was the Mafia Boss

Isadora Vale had overdue bills, a little sister to keep, and someone else's Tuesday shift to cover at the Vittoria, and that is the night three men walked in through three different doors with their hands hidden inside their jackets. Every one of them was watching the customer at the window table, and she had about three seconds to decide, so she crossed the dining room, took that stranger's face in her hands, and kissed him like he was hers. She saved the most dangerous don in New York that night, and Dante Moretti is not a man who lets a woman like that walk back home and pretend nothing happened.