Skip to content
Booknovel
The Don's Forbidden Affair
  1. 1. The Photo on the Don's Phone
  2. 2. The Gilded Cage of Fifth Avenue
  3. 3. The Gala at Villa d'Oro
  4. 4. In the Shadows of the Conservatory
  5. 5. Whispers in the Ledger
  6. 6. The Rain on Park Avenue 🔒
  7. 7. Dangerous Confessions 🔒
  8. 8. Crossing the Line 🔒
  9. 9. The Taste of Fire 🔒
  10. 10. Morning Shadows and Alibis 🔒
  11. 11. The Harbor Meeting 🔒
  12. 12. A Warning from the Don 🔒
  13. 13. Stolen Hours at Hudson Heights 🔒
  14. 14. The Ring and the Knife 🔒
  15. 15. Surveillance in the Rearview 🔒
  16. 16. The Don's Shield 🔒
  17. 17. The Anonymous Envelope 🔒
  18. 18. The Terms of Silence 🔒
  19. 19. The Storm Gathers 🔒
  20. 20. The Point of No Return 🔒
  21. 21. Interrogation in the Depths 🔒
  22. 22. The Tribunal Summons 🔒
  23. 23. The Venetian Safe House 🔒
  24. 24. Digital Counter-Offensive 🔒
  25. 25. The Viper and the Consigliere 🔒
  26. 26. Eve of the Tribunal 🔒
  27. 27. The Yacht Club Gathering 🔒
  28. 28. The Accusation 🔒
  29. 29. The Evidence of Blood 🔒
  30. 30. Bruno Takes the Stand 🔒
  31. 31. Don Cesare's Judgment 🔒
  32. 32. The Aftermath & The Sovereign Kiss 🔒
  33. 33. The Sovereign Homecoming 🔒
  34. 34. The Raid on the Baccarat Hotel 🔒
  35. 35. The Blackmailer's Ghost 🔒
  36. 36. Shadows Over Bay Ridge 🔒
  37. 37. Blood and Healing 🔒
  38. 38. The Consigliere's Dossier 🔒
  39. 39. The Port Authority Standoff 🔒
  40. 40. The Swiss Dead-Drop 🔒
  41. 41. The Teterboro Trap 🔒
  42. 42. The Confrontation in the Hangar 🔒
  43. 43. The End of the Blackmail 🔒
  44. 44. The Sovereign Alliance Treaty 🔒
  45. 45. Crown of the Northern Queen 🔒
  46. 46. The Hydra Intercept 🔒
  47. 47. The Port of Shadows 🔒
  48. 48. The Baron's Courier 🔒
  49. 49. A Deadly Dinner at Casa Nostra 🔒
  50. 50. Blood on the Hudson 🔒
  51. 51. The Bellini Vaults 🔒
  52. 52. Whispers from Geneva 🔒
  53. 53. Under the Gilded Chandelier 🔒
  54. 54. Intimacy in the Sanctuary 🔒
  55. 55. The Trap at Red Hook 🔒
  56. 56. The False Confession 🔒
  57. 57. Forensics of Deceit 🔒
  58. 58. The Sniper at Trinity Church 🔒
  59. 59. Stitching the Wounds 🔒
  60. 60. The War Declared 🔒
  61. 61. The Midnight Interception 🔒
  62. 62. Storming the Poseidon 🔒
  63. 63. The Face of the Ghost 🔒
  64. 64. Judgment on the Atlantic 🔒
  65. 65. The Zurich Decryption 🔒
  66. 66. The Federal Shield 🔒
  67. 67. The Fall of Agent Hayes 🔒
  68. 68. The Judge's Reckoning 🔒
  69. 69. A Moment in the Embers 🔒
  70. 70. Flight to the Alps 🔒
  71. 71. The Shadow Freeport 🔒
  72. 72. Breaching Box 814 🔒
  73. 73. The Master Ledger Revealed 🔒
  74. 74. Ambush at the Lakefront 🔒
  75. 75. The Dossier Delivered 🔒
  76. 76. The Alpine Citadel 🔒
  77. 77. Return to the Metropolis 🔒
  78. 78. The Gilded Inquest 🔒
  79. 79. Shadows on Wall Street 🔒
  80. 80. The Fixer's Ultimatum 🔒
  81. 81. The Gala of the Damned 🔒
  82. 82. The Glass Pavilion 🔒
  83. 83. Whispers in the Penthouse 🔒
  84. 84. The Blackmail Broadcast 🔒
  85. 85. The Trial of Public Opinion 🔒
  86. 86. Blood in the Gallery 🔒
  87. 87. The Sacred Vow 🔒
  88. 88. The Assembly of Dons 🔒
  89. 89. Wings over the Tyrrhenian 🔒
  90. 90. The Corsican Headland 🔒
  91. 91. The Caves of Porticciolo 🔒
  92. 92. The Genoese Chimney 🔒
  93. 93. The Courtyard of Iron 🔒
  94. 94. The Baron's Last Stand 🔒
  95. 95. The Sovereign Retribution 🔒
  96. 96. The Bullion and the Ledger 🔒
  97. 97. Sunrise over Cap Corse 🔒
  98. 98. The Return to Rome 🔒
  99. 99. The Shadow Fleet Disbanded 🔒
  100. 100. The Eve of Sovereignty 🔒
  101. 101. The Coronation of House Bellini 🔒
  102. 102. The Shadow of Sovereignty 🔒
  103. 103. The Red Hook Rebellion 🔒
  104. 104. The Sovereign Hand 🔒
  105. 105. Whispers in the Vineyard 🔒
  106. 106. The Caravaggio Restoration 🔒
  107. 107. The Ghost of Gianni Falco 🔒
  108. 108. The Anatomy of Envy 🔒
  109. 109. The Cleansing Fire 🔒
  110. 110. The Council of Matriarchs 🔒
  111. 111. The Secret in the Stone 🔒
  112. 112. The Sovereign Choice 🔒
  113. 113. The Answer of the Heart 🔒
  114. 114. The Sovereign Compact 🔒
  115. 115. The Return of the Masterpiece 🔒
  116. 116. The Docks of Prosperity 🔒
  117. 117. The Shadows Dissolved 🔒
  118. 118. The Winter Gala at the Armory 🔒
  119. 119. A Quiet Night in SoHo 🔒
  120. 120. The Tuscan Harvest 🔒
  121. 121. The Lion's Heirs 🔒
  122. 122. The Foundations of Tomorrow 🔒
  123. 123. The Council of Peace 🔒
  124. 124. No One's Possession 🔒
  125. 125. The Sovereign Dawn 🔒

Chapter 87

The Sacred Vow

The Don's Forbidden Affair · Elena Marchesi & Production Syndicate · 7 min read

At two o'clock in the morning, Fifth Avenue was deserted. A fine autumn mist drifted across the pavement, reflecting the golden streetlamps outside the soaring neo-Gothic facade of St. Patrick's Cathedral. The colossal bronze doors, locked to the public for the night, swung open with a muffled, resonant click. Father Bernardo, the cathedral's seventy-five-year-old rector whose parish had been protected by the Santoro family for four decades, stood in the…

Keep reading in the app

This chapter is in the Booknovel app. Unlock it with coins, a short ad, the free timer or VIP.

Open chapter 87 in the app
Download on theApp Store Get it onGoogle Play
Read offline in the app Open app