Dead Before He Said 'I Love You'

Years ago the mafia boss Grayson picked the narrator to serve as a decoy, a body double standing in for the woman he truly loved, and she endured gunfire, a crash, an explosion, and surgery that cost her a kidney. She gave him a son and played the boss's wife in public, but once Grayson cleared the way for Natalie and planned to marry her, the narrator's place was steadily erased. Her humiliations escalated after she dared to question him, and the cruelty now reaches into her family and her own child. Her story is one of a woman pushed aside by the man who claimed her.