---- Chapter 13 Ispun around. Vincent stood in the doorway, so thin he was almost unrecognizable. Awraith ina tattered black overcoat. His hair was a mess, his eyes were sunken, and his cheeks were hollowed out by what looked like years of suffering packed into one. "Vincent?" I stared at him, my mind refusing to process it. How was he here? Wasn't he in prison? "Tsabella... it's really you," he staggered toward me, his voice a raw whisper. "You're alive... thank God, you're alive..." "Stay back!" Alexander immediately stepped in front of me, a protective shield. "Who are you?" ---- "'m her husband," Vincent said, his desperate eyes locked on me, ignoring Alexander completely. " Isabella, I've been looking for you for so long..." "Ex-husband," I corrected, my voice as cold and sharp as ice. "We're divorced." "No! I never signed them!" Vincent's voice was a desperate rasp. "I burned them. By the laws of our world, Isabella, you are still my wife!" "Security!" Alexander pressed an alarm button on the wall. "We have an intruder!" Several guards rushed in and tried to restrain Vincent, but he shoved them aside with a desperate strength and fell to his knees in front of me. "Isabella, please, just let me explain!" He grabbed the hem of my gown, his grip like a drowning man's. "I know I was wrong! God, I know I was wrong!" I looked down at the man who was once the most powerful Don in Chicago, now groveling at my feet like a dog. ---- My heart felt nothing. Acold, dead calm. "Let go of me," I commanded. "No! I won't let go!" he clung to me. "You have no idea how I've suffered this past year! I see your face every night! You and our baby!" "Our baby?" The laugh that broke from my lips was cold and sharp. "You mean the one you told your doctor to dispose of? The child whose life you calculated and dismissed in a single breath?" The color drained from Vincent's face, leaving it a sickly, grayish white. "You... you heard that?" "Of course I did," I kicked his hand away from my dress. "I heard everything. Every lie. Every plan you made with Sophia." "That wasn't me! Sophia twisted everything!" he argued desperately. ''I thought she was the one who saved me! I thought..." "Enough!" Alexander roared, his own composure