My Husband’s Secret Family Lived Right Next Door

Adriana has spent ten years bound by oath to Salvatore Rossi, a union the underworld envied. Yet when she returns home from the hospital after a car was run off the road and surgeons cut glass from her body, Salvatore never came. He was next door instead, cradling the widow Bianca Vitale's infant in the safe house across the courtyard, a devotion he never showed her.

At the gathering to mark her return, before the famiglia and the men who swore oaths at her table, Adriana stands and renounces the union. Salvatore throws wine in her face and calls her jealous of a six-month-old baby, but she has seen the mark on his neck. Her Consigliere has prepared the renunciation papers; she lays them before him and names Lombardi as the one to finish it.

Her father strikes her, her mother begs her to stay, and Salvatore's brothers press in with explanations. Then Bianca walks in with her daughter, and Salvatore takes the baby as though it were his own. Adriana, carrying a child of her own at last, refuses to bend.