Chapter 12Tatiana
"You're engaged," she stated dumbfoundedly after a few moments.
Zeke ran a hand through his hair in frustration. "Look, let me explain—"
“Don’t.” She cut him off, scrambling away from him as fast as she could, wrapping a sheet around her nakedness.
“Tatiana—”
"I understand perfectly." She cut him off once again in a detached voice. "You are engaged to a woman, to be married, bound together until death," she recited, her impassive expression hiding the storm of sadness, hurt, but most of all the white-hot, utter rage brewing within her. Divorce wasn’t an option when you were in the mafia world. Marriage was a big deal to them, a symbol of a binding alliance. They took the 'Till death do us part.' in the vows seriously.
But mafia politics and marriage semantics took t
