At a Manhattan luxury hotel, Scarlett—the front desk receptionist—comes face to face with her ex, Dante, after three years apart. Now the Vitale mafia godfather, he arrives with a female companion and keeps pressing her in a way that feels openly provocative. Years earlier, when Dante was critically ill and in urgent need of a kidney transplant, Scarlett stood by his half-brother in public. That choice left her branded a gold-digger