Athena De Santi. Lawyer, Single mother, At least to the outside world that's what she is.
To the underworld she's La Regina Perduta (Hade's Queen) deadly, beautiful, an assassin who has never missed a target in her life, and Giovanni's Queen.
And not a second too soon for him.

She has lived a  shadowed life for far too long, to the world it appears that she is a confident loving mother ready to destroy anybody to save her little princess.

In truth she does have a daughter, a seven year old princess she must be the best mother she can be to protect this young innocent from her enemies.

Because a second with her has the potential of shattering him to a million tiny fragments.

However, he's about to find out she's not the easiest target to hit, or the type of woman who is easy to kill.

Especially not when she has secrets, and vengeance, of her own to redeem and a daughter to save.
She's all they fear.

And that is why he must tread very, very lightly.

Time is running out.

Fate holds all the cards now.

May God save those who dare to hurt her little girl.

HADE'S QUEEN (LA REGINA PERDUTA)

Athena was helpless. For the first time in years she had felt completely destroyed, the love and pain a mother felt when worried for her kids, a pain indescribable. Her strength had been far removed from her since her mothers death. She didn't know how she would ever be able to protect her again. 


The horror that awaited her in the bedroom , was far worse than anything she had encountered since the death of her mother. The cruelty and brutality was staggering, and she had never known it to reach this low. 


On the ground was her sister Selene, bleeding profusely she had been beaten up really bad. She rushed to feel her pulse. Then she noticed, her daughter was nowhere to be found. Her body sprawled on the floor covered in her own blood. 


You can't save a life by giving it away. 


She had never really experienced anything like this before. 


She was losing everything all over again. 


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