The gun came up at me off the wall, and I did the thing I'd promised Lena I'd do, which was nothing — because moving was how you died, and staying was how she'd planned it. I had just enough time to think that I'd kept my promise and it was going to kill me, and that I was glad, in a strange flat way, that the last thing I'd ever do was trust my wife.

Empire of Ashes is a serialized dark mafia romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.