A Donna Unclaimed

Rosa was just an ordinary girl on the street, but she meant Griffin DeLaRosa’s Donna, the wife of a future mafia don, and he loved her with everything he had. Then she was diagnosed with cancer. And before Rosa could stop crying, Griffin’s mother stood by her hospital bed with a cruel mercy: push her away, or ruin her future. So Rosa betrayed what she didn’t mean to, let Griffin catch her, and sent her overseas, hating that she never told him she was sick, never told him why. Six years later, Griffin comes home with a new fiancé on his arm. Rosa comes home from the hospital in a wheelchair, her treatment failing, her time nearly up. They make fun of the wreck she’s become, never knowing that she broke her own heart to save him. Her mother wants her to stay quiet until the end. But after six years of loving him through every needle and every dark night, Rosa can agree to keep the secret that she can never agree to see him again.