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Accardi

Accardi

Completed · Allison Franklin
“I thought we discussed this earlier, Weakness? I warned you. His death is on your hands.”
“I thought you said you were done chasing me?” Gen mocked.
“I am done chasing you.”
Before she could formulate a witty remark, Matteo threw her down. She landed hard on her back atop his dining room table. She tried to sit up when she noticed what he was doing. His hands were working on his belt. It came free of his pants with a violent yank. She collapsed back on her elbows, her mouth gaping open at the display. His face was a mask of sheer determination, his eyes were a dark gold swimming with heat and desire. His hands wrapped around her thighs and pulled her to the edge of the table. He glided his fingers up her thighs and hooked several around the inside of her panties. His knuckles brushed her dripping sex.
“You’re soaking wet, Genevieve. Tell me, was it me that made you this way or him?” his voice told her to be careful with her answer. His knuckles slid down through her folds and she threw her head back as she moaned. “Weakness?”
“You…” she breathed.


Genevieve loses a bet she can’t afford to pay. In a compromise, she agrees to convince any man her opponent chooses to go home with her that night. What she doesn’t realize when her sister’s friend points out the brooding man sitting alone at the bar, is that man won’t be okay with just one night with her. No, Matteo Accardi, Don of one of the largest gangs in New York City doesn’t do one night stands. Not with her anyway.
The mafia princess return

The mafia princess return

Ongoing · Tonje Unosen
Talia have been living with her mother, stepsister and Stepfather for years. One day she finally get away from them. Suddenly she learn she have more family out there and she have many people that actually love her, something she have never felt before! At least not as she can remember. She have to learn to trust others, get her new brothers to accept her for who she is!
The Badass Mafia Princess and Family

The Badass Mafia Princess and Family

Ongoing · Tonje Unosen
Betty have been living a lie for as long as she can remember. She have been abused by her parents her whole life, even though she is a broken and abused girl in her own home. Outside of those four walls she is a force to be reckoned with! She is not afraid to do what she need to stay alive!
Accidentally Yours

Accidentally Yours

Ongoing · Merffy Kizzmet
“Who the hell are you and why are you tied to my bed?”

Lola Marlowe’s morning-after is a disaster. She’s got a killer hangover, zero memory of Burning Man, and a half-naked, sculpted stranger tied to her bed with her own lavender silk ropes. To make matters infinitely worse, the furious (and frustratingly handsome) “accidental hostage” is Enzo Marchesi, Vegas’s most notorious mafia Don.

For Enzo, this is the ultimate security breach. But the fiery, unpredictable tattoo artist is the most intriguing thing to happen to him in years. To stop his crew from “neutralizing” the threat, he makes an impulsive claim: she’s his fiancée.

Thrust into a world of high-stakes lies and feral attraction, they must navigate rival families and their own explosive chemistry.

One wrong move sparked it. Now neither of them wants out.
Sold! To the Grizzly Don

Sold! To the Grizzly Don

Completed · Tatienne Richard
When Alcee Mariani turns twenty-one, she knows her time is up. Her family has arranged her marriage from the time she was twelve to the future Don of the Lozano family, Torquato "The Grizzly" Lozano. He's rumored to be cold, cruel and heartless and he's a full ten years older than she is.
Selling her virginity online is a surefire way to make sure The Grizzly cancels the agreement and when she lets her father know she's sold it to the highest bidder and never got his real name, the contract is ended but so is her association with her own family.
Six years later she is no longer the treasured principessa of the Mariani family, but the single-mother to a five-year old boy who bears an uncanny resemblance to the man to whom she sold her innocence.
Torquato Lozano has searched for the woman who left him high and dry after an incredible night of passion nearly six years ago. When he stumbles across her in a newly purchased company working as an IT tech, he's stunned to find out she's the woman his family arranged him to marry so many years before. A perusal of her file tells him she didn't leave their rendezvous all those nights ago empty handed. Her little boy is the spitting image of him, right down to his massive size.
When Alcee's family realize they are losing out on a lucrative financial alliance they should have been part of, it starts a war. With enemies appearing at every corner, Alcee and Torquato will need to let the past go and work together to keep their son alive. Their passion will reignite as they strive to keep their family safe and forge a new power to take over the New York criminal underworld.
The Mafia twins

The Mafia twins

Ongoing · Tonje Unosen
The two twins Elina and Ian disappeared from their family when they were four years old. After that their life have been filled with both abuse and misery. But when they one day get spotted on the streets of mexico at the age of 9 they get taken into a gang. One day they disappears again, and is hold captive for a year before they get rescued. During that year they are in captivity they are being abused in many ways.

After they get saved Elina's spirit have broken, she become a very scared girl, and when she get back to her family she is very shy and meek girl. But that will change overtime, her badass character will come out again. And then everyone will know that Elina is nobody to mess with.

Elina and Ian have been trained by the leader of the gang that took them in from the streets, and they are both highly skilled and deadly towards their enemies. The leader also made sure they were both highly educated, and both of them are extremely smart.

Elina and Ian can communicate with each other by just looking in each others eyes. They have a special bond and can feel each others pain. They are identical twins and often move as one unite. They have a deep understanding for each other.

Elina and Ian try their best to fit in with their family and their new life in Los Angeles, at school with their brothers and from all the attention then will follow them. They also have to deal with their past nightmares.

Will they be able to fine their happiness and love? Will they be able to accept themselves and see their own worth again? Their biggest wish is to live peaceful and happy.
Her Mafia Daddy (18+)

Her Mafia Daddy (18+)

Completed · sakshi
It's a 18+ Dark romance which contains forbidden explicit sexual content. So, please read it at your own risk.

My father forcibly imprisoned me in Italy and sold me as a wife to the sole heir of a Mafia king. He turned out to be a freak who only liked men, not women. I thought my life had become hell until my husband's father—the Mafia king himself, known as "Il Diavolo" (The Devil)—took me from his son and forced me to be his lover.

He was evil, handsome, and captivating, drawing me in ways I had never dreamed possible. His power was addictive, like a drug. When the devil decided to take me, I was powerless to resist, even if it meant giving him my whole being...

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” ~~ William Shakespeare, The Tempest
THE DON'S BRIDE

THE DON'S BRIDE

Completed · chalista saqila
He was supposed to be my stepfather. I was supposed to call him Daddy, instead of baby, my darling, or even my husband. But when my mother was murdered, he suddenly dragged me to the altar to take my mother's place to marry him. As if my mother's murder wasn't shocking enough, I was forced to say I do under his piercing gaze, and even a gun to my ribs. I was scared, and I couldn't refuse. I had to marry a stranger who was supposed to be my stepfather. And worse, I didn't know that my future stepfather, or now my future husband, was a Don.
"You'll be safe as long as you use my last name. I'll make sure they won't touch a single hair on your head."
"Really? What happened to my mother showed otherwise."
"Too bad, Katherine no longer has my last name. And you, you're Fiona Craig now."
Life was so strange. In an instant I lost my mother. In an instant I became the wife of the Don, Joshua Craig. And who knows what would happen next. It felt so wrong to us. It felt so wrong to me.
Pregnant with the Mafia's Twins

Pregnant with the Mafia's Twins

Ongoing · oyindamola aduke
Five years ago, she ran for her life. Now he wants his family back… at any cost.

Once trapped in a loveless marriage to Dario Moretti, Italy’s most feared mafia king. Elena Caruso barely escaped with her unborn twins and her life. Framed for betrayal by Dario’s cunning stepmother and humiliated by his affairs, Elena was cast aside like trash. When he tried to kill her and their child, she vanished into the shadows of New York, starting over with a new name and an iron heart.

Now a sought-after interior designer, Elena is confident, fearless, and thriving, until Dario crashes back into her world like a loaded gun, desperate to reclaim what he threw away.

But Elena isn't the same fragile woman he once controlled. And she won’t give up her freedom or her children without a fight.

He wants redemption and she wants revenge, while their twins? They want the truth…

In a world of blood ties and broken vows, love isn’t a fairytale, it’s a battlefield.
Three Is Not A Crowd

Three Is Not A Crowd

Ongoing · Nnanna Cynthia
“Take off your clothes slowly, put on a little show for us.” One of the three brothers ordered.

“Lay on the bed and spread your needy pussy wide open for our view.” I obeyed instantly, spreading my legs and showing them my glistening drenched pussy.

“Fuck, you are already dripping for us. Do you want us to give your little hole what it craves.” His deep voice whispered into my ear, causing my whole body to vibrate with needs and I nodded.

“Words, little one.” Another voice whispered.

“Y..yes, D..daddy.”


Jasmine became homeless when she was thrown out of the house by the people she called parents at the age of thirteen. She couldn't afford to rent a house, so she made the street her home and lived under the bridge.

But her life changed when she was saved from a rape incident by three dangerous mafia brothers. The three of them take a liking to her and will do anything to keep her safe.

They want to share her but is she willing to submit to them freely and become their little submissive?
The Ruthless Mafia Boss’s Reluctant Bride

The Ruthless Mafia Boss’s Reluctant Bride

Ongoing · Nwigwe Precious
“You think you can walk away, bella mia?”
Melo’s voice was low, dangerous, his fingers curling under her chin. “You signed your father’s debt with your name. That makes you mine.”
Isabella met his cold, gray eyes, refusing to look away. “You can own my body, Melo Rossi,” she whispered, “but you’ll never own my heart.”
His smirk was sharp enough to cut. “We’ll see about that.”

When her father’s debt binds her to a merciless mafia boss, Isabella Bianchi becomes the reluctant bride of Carmelo Rossi—a man feared for his cruelty and desired for his power.

Trapped in his world of danger and temptation, Isabella fights to keep her heart untouched. Can she escape the man who owns her fate—or will she fall for the monster she’s learned to fear?
Married to Mafia Boss

Married to Mafia Boss

Completed · Isla Mae
(Do not open this novel lightly, or you will become so engrossed that you won't be able to stop reading for three days and nights...)
Alia never dreamed that she would have a flash marriage with a man she had only met twice!
On their wedding night, she was pinned down and dominated by him.
The next day, the man transformed into the CEO of the company where she was interning.
Not only that, but he was also the next heir to the Mafia... "The Black Prince"!
Devil's Psychopathic Obsession

Devil's Psychopathic Obsession

Ongoing · ezugwu kelechi
*** “Get back here Bella. Do not even try because you can't get away from me, do not let me catch you myself.”
“I don't want to have anything to do with you," she retorted angrily.
“Oh, sweetheart, that is totally on you. Do you know how long I have been invested in you?”

“You kidnapped me and brought me here. I don't want to be here and I'm not letting you touch me," her voice was so strong.
He loved her challenge: it only made him harder.

"Me touching you is definitely happening. You absolutely can't resist it for too long: you can only enjoy it now,” he said in a low, dangerous voice. With that, he quickly ran around the kitchen counter and caught her.
“Got you… You can't run away from me Bella; no matter how hard you try I will always find you.

“Let me go… now,” she shouted.

“Not when I'm still breathing baby, you will love every single thing I do to you” he carried her over his shoulder to the bedroom…

At a young age, Mirabella Antonio lost everything.
Her parents died suddenly in a car crash. They died with a debt tagged to their names. A year later, her older brother, David was murdered in cold blood, trying to keep her safe and pay off the debt their parents owed. And the man at the center of it all was Hunter Groves.

Four years later, he saw her again.
He wants her.
And Hunter doesn’t ask. He only takes.
She opposed him in every way possible but he took her in every way possible. He is determined to imprint himself on her body and soul and that he did.

Note; Dark romance; Male lead is a totally obsessed psychopath. Trigger warnings
Her Eternal Prison

Her Eternal Prison

Ongoing · ssfx3yuchens
BLURB

Beautiful, kind and loyal.

Who would have thought this would happen to her?

When Piper steps in to help a friend, she would never expect she would land in serious trouble. Abused, broken and used as a pawn in a conspiracy to bring down her best friend's husband's company, her life takes on a sudden somersault.

Will she ever walk out of this living hell, or will the temptation of evil draw her within?

SYNOPSIS

Piper is a kind and beautiful girl whose only hope is to find true love, after she fails in love several times, until she meets a doctor, Syl S. But when she prevents her best friend Sherry's molest and inadvertently injures the molester, she never expected to run into big trouble.

Kidnapped by a triad, she is broken, abused and tormented by Lenard Lee, the leader of the triad. Torture will not stop until he gets what he wants, and that is Sherry's husband's company. To save her, Jacques and Sherry team up together to bring down the company and flee with her to Thailand, where Piper and Sherry take up new identities.

But Piper's past never ceases to haunt her, and Lenard won't leave her alone. Tracking her down easily, he returns to torment her and leaves Piper no choice but to scheme a plan to kill him.

Two years later, Piper returns prepared to take back from Lenard what he owed her, but circumstances lead her into a different path: one that strays far from good.
Mafia Boss's Accidental Baby

Mafia Boss's Accidental Baby

Completed · Joy Brown
When a drunk bastard dragged me into that back alley behind the bar, ripping at my clothes, he appeared like a demon crawling straight out of hell to save me. After one night of sinful passion, he vanished—leaving behind a fake business card and a thousand bucks like a slap to my face!

The day I discovered I was pregnant, I lost my job and my landlord gave me 24 hours to get out.

Just when I hit rock bottom with nowhere to turn, a black Rolls-Royce pulled up in front of me. Turns out my mysterious savior was Dominic—a billionaire mafia boss worth ten figures!
Mafia's Surrogate Bride

Mafia's Surrogate Bride

Ongoing · Kendra
I will keep fucking you until you are pregnant with my child.
He tied my hands and legs apart and tied them to the four corners of the bed, and slowly rolled up his shirt sleeves.
His horsewhip slid across my pussy.
I felt my pussy getting wet, and water was dripping down my thighs.
He whipped me lightly with the riding whip and ordered me: "Tell me. What do you want?"


When I discovered that the man I had a one-night stand with—the same man who fired me—was Damian Cavalieri, a terrifying mafia boss, it was already too late.
I lost my job, was betrayed by my boyfriend, and lost the money for my sister's treatment.
Just when I had nowhere to turn, Damian offered me a deal: become his surrogate bride. He would pay off all my debts.
I didn't know why he chose me, but I understood that as long as I gave him an heir, I could save my sister's life.
I agreed.
The contract was simple—no sex, no feelings, just business. But Damian broke his own rules with his own hands.
My Adopted Brother's MC Now Kneels to a Steel Rose

My Adopted Brother's MC Now Kneels to a Steel Rose

Completed · Fuzzy Melissa
For nine years, I loved Jake, heir to the Steel Knights MC, like a fool—until I saw him tangled up with my own cousin in the garage… while she was carrying his child. They laughed at me, called me "just a mechanic," treated me like their loyal dog. But I'll show them—the most underestimated roses grow the sharpest thorns. From Texas to California, from a cast-out nobody to the underground racing queen, my revenge is just getting started. And when Jake is on his knees, begging me to come back? I'll make sure he sees exactly who lost this game.
The Mafia’s Collateral

The Mafia’s Collateral

Ongoing · Maureen Elochukwu
"Three hundred thousand euros. That’s what her father owed. And now... she's the payment."

When sarah Alexander walks into billionaire mafia boss Michael Anderson’s office, she’s not there to plead for mercy, she’s there to offer herself.
Her father, a ruthless gambler and selfish man, has racked up a debt he can’t repay. With the Mafia king at the door and no options left, he offers his daughter as collateral. Disgusted by the man’s shamelessness, Michael is ready to kill him? until sarah appears. She's Beautiful and desperate to save her father. She offers her body, her time, her freedom… anything to save her father, Michael whispers to her ears
🔞 "Come tonight. Watch what I do to women like you. Then decide if you're truly willing to be mine."
After Breaking Up, I Became My Ex-Boyfriend's Sister-in-Law

After Breaking Up, I Became My Ex-Boyfriend's Sister-in-Law

Completed · Fuzzy Melissa
At the Rossini family gala, I clutched my wine glass, listening to Patrick chat with the senator's daughter about politics and business, without even the right to join their conversation. It wasn't until I overheard him in his study late that night calling me "just a plaything from peasant stock" that I realized how ridiculous my six years of devotion had been.

After fleeing to Los Angeles, I thought I could escape this family forever. But when Patrick's brother Warren rescued me at a bar and offered me a job, the tenderness in his eyes made my heart race. Was I crazy to fall for my ex's brother? Yet when he said "you deserve to be treasured," I couldn't help but wonder: maybe this time, I could take the gamble?
When My Ex Became the Don

When My Ex Became the Don

Completed · Agatha Christie
Once the treasured daughter of a mafia kingpin, Isabella has now fallen to working as an ordinary employee at a community center, relying on medication to hold her shattered psyche together. Just when she thought life couldn't get any harder, devastating news arrives: her ex-boyfriend Anthony Russo has returned to Boston—no longer the poor kitchen boy from her past, but a powerful crime boss commanding his own territory.

Worse still, he's her new boss.

Tony has returned with five years of vengeance burning inside him, determined to make Isabella pay for her "betrayal." He's willing to exploit her deepest fears, unaware of the truth behind the scars marking her wrists. When a sudden kidnapping drags them both into a bloody gang war, how will the secrets hidden for years upend everything they thought they knew?
Claimed By The Mafia Don

Claimed By The Mafia Don

Ongoing · Nnanna Cynthia
“Your pussy is dripping, begging for me to use it.” He whispered, his deep and sexy voice sending my whole body on fire. His fingers brushed over my clit, slowly down my entrance.

“Fuck, you are so damn tight.” He muttered, sliding two fingers in and began finger-fucking me.

“Please,” I breathed, needing more.


After being kicked out of the house by her parents and rejected by the man who got her pregnant. Abigail was left on the street which led to the loss of her baby.

But what she never expected was being kidnapped by the same man who killed her father. The ruthless and mafia Don, who the rumours has it that he doesn't have a heart. He radiates danger but couldn't bring herself to hate him.

Will she survive his obsession or will she be destroyed by it?
The Casino King's Stolen Bride

The Casino King's Stolen Bride

Completed · Fuzzy Melissa
I married casino tycoon Daniel Morgan for one reason only: to uncover the truth behind the fire that killed my father seven years ago.
On our wedding day, I found a faded photo in his study—showing him covered in blood at the scene.
"If you knew what really happened that night," he gripped my hand, his gaze intense, "would you still have married me?"
As I began digging deeper, more questions emerged:
Why did Ryan, the man who "saved" me, keep stopping me from asking questions?
Why did Daniel visit my father’s memorial alone every midnight?
Then, I found two blood-stained poker chips hidden in a secret room—
That was when I realized: everyone in this marriage was lying.
And the deadliest truth of all—the fire was no accident.
Revenge of the Substitute Wife

Revenge of the Substitute Wife

Completed · Agatha Christie
Three years ago, Aria Moretti fled from her wedding to Europe, leaving debt-ridden Ella forced to marry Vincent Rossi in her place. Everyone knew she was just a stand-in—a pitiful substitute.

For three years, she silently endured her husband's indifference, tolerated the entire family's disdain, and even in the moment of pregnancy, still couldn't receive a single genuine embrace.

But no one knew she harbored a heartbreaking secret.

When Aria returned bearing scars, when Vincent didn't hesitate to abandon his wife for his former love, when everyone assumed this was just another ordinary elite family romantic entanglement...

Revenge had only just begun.

"Vincent, you'll never know that this marriage was a lie from the very beginning."
The Mafia's Princess

The Mafia's Princess

Ongoing · Vicky Visagie
Lucy was raised in foster care as her father Johnny Capone had to hide her due to a blood debt. If he didn't change her name and surname the Marchetti Mafia family would find her and kill her. To repay a blood debt for killing the Marchetti's youngest son. Although Johnny Lucy's father didn't physically pull the trigger it was still one of his men that did which made it his problem and his debt.

Over the past 20 years the Marchetti Mafia family was actively searching for her with no luck of finding her. The other Mafia families knows about this blood debt but felt so many years has past it's no use to go after the child now. What's the use she's a girl it's not like a girl will take over the Capone name she will marry and her surname will change.

But the new generation Mafia heirs wanted to find her. They felt a Capone will bring the Mafia families more wealth and take them to new heights. Just the name spoke fear into people and spoke of leadership. However for them to accomplish this they need to find her, protect her and most of all remind her who she really am. After 20 years they weren't so sure they will be able to remind her who she is. After a long search they believe they have found her.

Will the men be successful? Will all of them fall for her and how would that look for them? Will they be able to share this deep obsession they have with her.

But now the biggest question of all will she take her rightful place as the Mafia Queen or will she run away? Far away from the world her father hid her from.
All In

All In

Completed · Juniper Marlow
I'm a professional poker player, so I know when someone's bluffing.
My fiancé Blake? Definitely not bluffing when he stole my $847,000 and gave it to some mafia princess named Celeste. Apparently, sleeping with her was just "business."
Here's where it gets interesting. The guy sitting next to me on the plane accidentally showed me the bank transfer. Knox Santoro - looks like money, smells like danger, and for some reason wants to help me destroy Blake and his new girlfriend.
The problem? I can read anyone at a poker table, but Knox is completely unreadable. Either he's the best liar I've ever met, or he's actually telling the truth about wanting to help me.
His Mafia Uncle Killed For Me After He Said "Keep Her"

His Mafia Uncle Killed For Me After He Said "Keep Her"

Completed · Piper Hayes
My name is Mira Sawyer, an orphan adopted by the Rossi mafia family.

The night I was kidnapped, the captor pressed a gun to my temple and told Marco over video: "Five million dollars, or she dies."

I watched Marco Rossi—heir to New York's mafia empire—laugh with a blonde in his arms: "Keep her. Maybe she'll finally learn I don't want a pathetic puppy following me around."

Ten years of waiting, shattered at gunpoint.

Then the warehouse exploded.

Through the smoke walked a man in a black coat, eyes colder than death itself. Three shots. Three bodies. He stopped in front of me: "Nobody touches what's mine to protect."

That night changed everything.

The next day, I returned to the manor and saw him descending the stairs. Marco's face went white:

"Uncle Luca?! You're back from Sicily?!"

The legendary killer, exiled for twelve years. The real power behind the Rossi family. Marco's uncle.

He was the man who saved me.

And in that warehouse, I'd already become his.
The Assassin's obsession (Just a kiss)

The Assassin's obsession (Just a kiss)

Completed · Otse Mercy
"What did you do to me?" he muttered, closing his eyes and taking a deep breath.

"You're going to pay for making me so damn hard last night, and you're going to pay for making me have a wet dream about you last night... but not today," he said, leaving me so confused.

"Get ready, Bluey, because you're going to be seeing this face often, and I promise you our next encounter will be you lying on my bed with your legs wide apart as I ram my dick into your pussy."


The fun kicks off when Sasha drags Bluey to a club and dares her to kiss a random stranger. So, she goes for it. But what she doesn't expect is that the handsome guy she accidentally kissed turned out to be an infamous assassin.
Knight Dwayne, who is known across the country by the nickname The Terminator or Grim Reaper. After that kiss, he becomes totally obsessed with her, vowing to make her his at any cost.
Played the Mafia Boss for Debt

Played the Mafia Boss for Debt

Completed · Joy Brown
Vegas sophomore. Dad's gambling debts. Broken arm. Dead grandmother. Then I found Alexander bleeding out in an alley — the Desert Reaper himself. I thought he'd be my weapon for revenge. Instead, I fell for the bastard. Now the FBI's involved, and we're all drowning in blood and betrayal...
The Brother-in-Law's Forced Possession

The Brother-in-Law's Forced Possession

Completed · Agatha Christie
When Elena struggles to find her footing in the mafia family, she never imagines the greatest danger comes from Victor's brother, Dante. Those piercing gray-green eyes hide five years of desire, and now that Dante has returned to rule the family, he intends to rule her too.

After one passionate night in the wine cellar, the forbidden seed takes root in her womb. To protect this dangerous love, Elena is forced to accept a proposal from rival family's Marco, unaware she's walking into a deadly trap.

As wedding bells ring, Dante storms into the church with guns and fury. Between blood and fire, Elena must choose—become the forbidden lover of one mafia boss, or the puppet bride of another?

In this world of danger and desire, love is never simple, and possession is never gentle.
My Ex-Boyfriend is Now the Mafia King

My Ex-Boyfriend is Now the Mafia King

Completed · Piper Hayes
I was seventeen when I met him on the most dangerous streets of Boston—Marco Romano, an Irish street punk covered in blood. That night, he gave me a stolen rose, and I gave him my heart.

We lived in a broken one-room apartment, eating canned soup, but felt like we owned the world. He promised to protect me forever, and I swore never to leave him. But fate brought Vincent Torrino into my life—a devil of a mafia boss who threatened me with the vilest methods: "Either you leave Marco willingly, or I kill him."

On my eighteenth birthday, I told Marco the most painful lie of my life: "I'm tired of living this poor life with you." I watched the light die in his eyes, and my heart died with it.

Five years later, when I thought I'd never see him again, he appeared before me—no longer that street punk, but New York's most feared mafia don. Dressed in tailored suits, cold and ruthless, with a beautiful Hollywood actress by his side.

"Ms. Whitmore," he called me by my fake name in a voice both strange and dangerous, "pleasure to meet you."

But when his green eyes looked at me, I knew that some loves, even when torn apart and buried, never truly die...