Erasing Mrs. Moretti

For five years, Alessia has been the wife of Dante Moretti, the Don of the Chicago Outfit, a man whose violin tattoo beside his family crest declared a loyalty that could never be erased. Then a photo arrives from his mistress, a bartender named Jenna, sprawled in his arms with her name scrawled beside that violin. More messages follow, mocking Alessia and telling her to step aside.

She does not confront him. Instead she pays a man in a flat cap for a new identity, the name Ava, and a bank account, then has the Moretti crest burned from her collarbone. At home, Dante gives a television interview about loyalty and the wife who sacrificed her dream of being a violinist for him, while the scent of another woman clings to his shirt.

She hands him a gift on their fifth anniversary: their wedding photo, cut to pieces. To escape, she must keep playing the clueless wife, even as his burner phone lights up with messages from Kitten.