Meet Brax and Toni from THE SUBMISSION OF A MAFIA PRINCESS #SRE
Take a seat at the bar and order up an extra dirty martini. Drinks are on the house in honor of The Submission of a Mafia Princess release in just a few short days!
I’m excited to send my Jersey girl heroine and her Harley riding hero out into the digital world so I’m sharing a few tasty treats each day leading up to the release.
Want to meet the gorgeous couple on cover?
Allow me to introduce you!
Meet Braxton Malone, the Harley riding new member at the Satin Rose Experience. Wall Street commodities trader by day and Dom of choice by night, Brax is still haunted by visions of the woman from his past.
It’s my pleasure to introduce you to Antoniette Azzari, the only child of notorious mob leader Tony “The Chief” Azzari. Tony’s looking to marry his daughter off to a fellow mobster but she has other ideas like graduate school and a future far away from the life she’s forced to lead.
Brax and Toni first meet three years before the story begins. Here’s a sneak-peek from that scene.
Excerpt from The Submission of a Mafia Princess:
“Hey,” he said softly. She tilted her face downward and strands of her straight, shoulder length hair covered one eye. He continued to approach her as she bit down on her lower lip.
“Would you please stop there? You’re making me nervous,” she said, looking up at him for a moment before her eyes shifted down again.
This time he couldn’t stifle a chuckle. “I’m making you nervous? I’m not going to get jumped by a group of mobsters with guns, am I?” Brax asked and looked around the small room.
She laughed. Not one of those high-pitched giggles, girls seem to all master. No, this was a hearty deep chuckle that made him smile in appreciation.
“No one else is here but me,” she said with a grin.
“Good to know. I’m —”
“Braxton. I know from the note.”
“Brax for short and you?”
“Toni,” she said softly.
“Toni Azzari. Hmm, I think I’ve heard that name before.” He put his index finger to his mouth and bunched his eyebrows as if he was trying to recall where he’d heard it.
“Yes, I’m Tony ‘The Chief’ Azzari’s daughter.” She smirked and made quote marks in the air with her fingers.
“Ah ha. Well, Miss Toni Azzari, are you going to come out from behind the table?”
She didn’t answer but glanced downward again.
“What is it? Do you have three legs, or maybe a tail? Look, whatever it is, I can handle it.”
She glanced up at him through a veil of thick eyelashes and continued to nibble at her lower lip. That lip stirred things in his stomach, making him want to nip at it as well.
He sensed the debate she was having with herself. Her eyes reflected her thoughts, making her even more vulnerable. She finally nodded, seemingly in response to her own decision rather than an answer to his request.
Silently, she slipped out from her hiding spot and stood about ten feet from him. Smoothing her hands down the tops of her jean-covered thighs, she flicked her eyes toward him for a split second before looking down again. He couldn’t help but stare. Gazing over her curves made him dizzy. This girl had the looks and body that would stop any man in his tracks. What was even more amazing was she seemed to have no idea of the effect she had on him. She peered beyond him to the door as if contemplating making a run for it. He had to put her at ease. Fast.
“Brax Malone at your service,” he said with a bow. “It’s truly an honor to meet New Jersey royalty.”
She laughed again. “New Jersey royalty? Funny.”
“You know, you don’t look like a Toni.”
Their gazes locked. He tried to pinpoint the color of her eyes but it was too dark to know for sure.
“No?” she questioned.
“Someone as pretty as you shouldn’t have a man’s name. What’s Toni short for?”
“Antonietta. It’s a combination of my parents’ names.”
“Does anyone call you Antonietta?”
She shook her head. “No one.”
“Would you mind if I did?”
Thanks for dropping by! Be sure to stop back tomorrow for clips from the HBO series that helped inspire this story.
xoxo
~S
