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At 3:23 P.M., my premature son died in my arms while my husband, Chicago's most feared mafia boss, was flying home from a vacation with his mistress. **Our baby lived exactly twelve hours and six minutes, weighed just 2.6 pounds, and never once felt his father's arms around him.** Damian Moretti had a private jet, hundreds of armed men, and an empire worth millions, yet he arrived two hours and forty-nine minutes too late. When he finally reached the hospital, he found an empty room, a paper bag with his name on it, and a fourteen-second video of the son he'd never met. **But the letter beneath that video would make him realize he'd lost his wife, too.**