“No. I like it. He’s caring and knows what to say to make my heart flutter and all that, but all this is very scary.” He knitted his brows in confession and I explained, “It just feels like a dream sometimes. And it scares me that one day I’d wake up and all of this would be a lie. He would be gone.
EROS I shouldn’t have been angry. It was my brother, after all. Yet Arabella’s words repeated every damn time I looked at Ella. “You’re standing in the same room as Adonis Vitale, the man you love.” Ella loved him. How could I ever compete with that? There were only a few people on this planet who
What I was feeling was insecurity at its worst. I had always known that anyone, absolutely everyone, would choose Adonis over me because he was the better one of us. He was wiser, dumb most of the time, but always righteous—at least as much as he could be, given his role in our line of work. Adonis
EROS I didn’t care about Adonis finding the contract because all I could think about was the look Mariella had on her face. The look of utter shock and complete pain. I was a bastard for making her feel that way. But I was a fucking mess. “It’s a contract,” I said, my voice harsh, “stating that ou
Adonis was a smart man. He had to know that Ella had feelings for him. Yet he had reduced their distance. “Don’t tell me you’re a fool to not notice that?” I asked. “Or were you just enjoying? Seeing how far this could go?” “I’m your brother, Eros. You know me better than anyone. Do you really thi
“What?” She jerked my hands away and stepped aside. Licking her lips, she questioned, “Do you really expect me to sit tight after everything you just said to me?” My chest heaved as I breathed in and out, the only fear I had clutching my heart. I didn’t want to lose her. I couldn’t lose the last pe
MARIELLA “Thank you for letting me stay the night, Niana,” I said as Niana appeared in the living room, wiping her wet hands on her apron. “I know it was a lot of trouble.” She shook her head, taking a seat beside me on the couch. “It was sudden but not a trouble. You can stay here for as long as
“Did he seem reluctant to have the baby?” “That I do not know. We can, though, if some news pops up from ‘Ndrangheta.” Solano didn’t seem to approve of Rosaline’s decision, and why would he? No one in Cosa Nostra would ever agree with Rosaline, which meant if she had left, she could never return.