Schwartz

Schwartz had seen Lucien evolve. Having been born to a prostitute, he had been heartless and cold.

He had been a brutal man, incapable of loving.

His sexual needs were insatiable. He had had a reputation for sleeping with more women than it was considered humanly possible, joked men in private, envious and admiringly. Schwartz himself knew that the core of his friend’s heart was empty. He kept aloof from relationships. He never surrendered completely to any woman.

But all that was before Proserpina wafted into his life.

When young Proserpina Winters had breezed into his life with her sunny disposition and her cheerful innocence, Garston had been caught unawares.

He had fallen hard.

At first, he had been his usual self. He had brutally claimed Proserpina for his mistress. But the young woman had shown her mettle. She had been swept off her feet but her love for the older mob boss had been real.

So when she had discovered that she was only one in a string of mistresses, she had run away