Bound by Honor (Born in Blood Mafia Chronicles, #1)

by Cora Reilly

Women in our world belonged to their husband. They were his property to deal with however he pleased.

Men, even cold-hearted bastards like them, have a weakness, and it hangs between their legs.”

“When I claim your body, I want you writhing beneath me in pleasure and not fear.”

Love is something girls hope for when they don’t know better, something women long for when they lie awake at night, and something they’ll only ever get from their children. Men don’t have time for such notions.

“You are far too beautiful and innocent to be married to someone like me, but I’m too much of a selfish bastard to ever let you go. You are mine. Forever.”

It thrilled me to know that a man like him could be gentle with me. It thrilled me that he was mine and I was his.

“Your marriage to me shackles you to the mafia. Blood and death will be your life as long as I live.” “Then so be it. I’ll go where you go no matter how dark the path.”

“I lied because I hate that I love you, because I hate that you can hurt me without ever laying a finger on me, because I hate myself for loving you even though you won’t ever love me back.”

“But you are my first choice, Aria. I’ll burn down the world if I have to. I’ll kill and maim and blackmail. I’ll do anything for you. Maybe love is a risk, but it’s a risk I’m willing to take and as you said, it’s not a choice. I never thought I would, never thought I could love someone like that, but I fell in love with you. I fought it. It’s the first battle I didn’t mind losing.”