“Yes, boss.” *** ROSALINE “How was your trip to your mother’s?” Paulina asked the sound of the purring tattoo machine echoing in my ears. I huffed. “The usual. She and her husband are too good to be true people.” “You say it like it’s not good.” “Everything about them is so perfect that someti
ROSALINE “Behave,” Dom said, scanning Terenzio from top to bottom when we reached the main gate of the Arena. Dom never talked his heart out to anyone, because he did not enjoy showing his weak side. He had always said that I was the last string binding him to the only part of him that still belie
The announcer got on the stage and began the event, the cheers of men filling the room. Every boxer was equally frightening, with tattoos and scars and wounds and bandages. The first round began with two men greeting each other with a simple handshake and a nod, which turned bloody very soon. They
He wrapped his hands around my waist, and his warm breath fell on my ear. I wanted to melt into his body, not caring if I was caught. I wished I could forget about Dom and Adonis and give in to my inner turmoil that wanted to devour De Luca and be ruined by him. “I know you feel it too,” he mumbled
LUCIANO The first time I had felt uncontrolled anger was when a man had accidentally bumped into my mother’s chest at a mall. I did not need Ma to say aloud what had happened, but the way her face had reddened, the way she had stammered and her entire body had shaken, I knew what that man had done.
How could Terenzio ask me to ignore those men when he should have killed them for disrespecting me—his fiancé? Gentleman, my ass! Then there was Luciano. I was thankful to him for doing at least half of what Terenzio should have done. However, I hated how this incident had portrayed me as most of t
ROSALINE I opened the door to our mansion and walked in, my head heavy with the events at the arena. A date with Terenzio after everything that had happened? I could not even look him in the eye for longer than seconds. “Thanks for tonight,” I said, turning around to meet Terenzio’s gaze. He had
“That’s not what I meant.” Looking up at him, I smiled and said, “If I had gone on the date, you would’ve called me for the tenth time by now.” He chuckled and sat down next to me, an elbow propped on his knee. “What you did at the arena was the right thing to do. You did your job as a brother, so