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Puoi negarlo quanto vuoi, ma è la verità.”
we’d like to formally invite you to be the new host of the Legacy Ball.”
Queen Bridget of Eldorra owns the sapphire version.”
In other words, he’d lost his childhood to his grandfather’s ambitions.
“What great advice,” she said. “I can’t believe I didn’t think of that. You should start a Dear Dante column in the local newspaper.”
love
“Touch Stella again, and you’ll no longer have a fiancée.”
“I don’t know why I care. I just know I do, and I hate it.” Self-loathing coated his voice. “I hate the idea of you touching anyone else, or anyone else touching you. I hate that other people can make you laugh in a way I can’t. I hate how I feel around you, like you’re the only person that can make me lose control when I. Don’t. Lose. Control.”
holding my world together. If I loved you as much as he claims to love you, nothing would’ve stopped me from keeping you.
“You don’t know what you do to me.”
a storm of emotions had blown through and upended our entire relationship.
Smug bastard.
His tone was lazy, but there was nothing lazy about the way he watched me, like a predator locked on its prey, his muscles coiled with tension.
The air turned dense, heavy with meaning. A faint car horn sounded dozens of stories below, but we didn’t look away.
I like you because of you, not because of your money.
but if I let Heath walk away with nothing more than a broken nose, I wasn’t Dante fucking Russo.
he looked like he’d spent the past half hour chatting about the weather instead of fucking me into oblivion.
tasting like wine and heat and sin.
In Dante’s world, his word was law. He was always right, and people bent over backward to accommodate or appease him. But that was the thing. It wasn’t just his world anymore; it was ours, at least when it came to our home life. Arranged marriage or not, I’d signed up for a husband, not a boss. I just wasn’t sure he knew that.
Jesus. I supposed a Brooklyn yoga instructor named Leaf was better than a mafia princess. Higher chance of turning my brother vegan, lower chance of getting him killed.
“I read an article about the seven sins in my dentist’s waiting room.”
