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“I’m not coming upstairs with you tonight … but soon. I suggest you get used to the idea.”
I had no intention of letting her go. Consequences be damned—she was mine.
“I will never hurt you, Alessia. I know you’re scared, and you have every right to be, but I don’t want you to run from me. If you have a problem, you come to me, and we’ll work through it together.”
“Sweet baby Jesus, who the fuck was that? And where do I get some?”
“The five ruling families of the New York Mafia—Russo, Lucciano, Giordano, Gallo, and Moretti. They run the city.”
“He’s everything I never knew I wanted, but now that I know what it’s like to be with him, I can’t imagine it any other way—
“Your father, the boss of the Lucciano crime family.”
“I worked very hard to protect myself and my family by keeping us hidden,”
“A month ago, the Commission confronted Sal about a number of shady business deals made by the Lucciano family.”
Someone wanted us to know it was a hit, and they wanted you to take the blame.”
“Enzo, this is Luca. We got a real problem—Alessia’s been taken.”
he sliced his knife across my delicate flesh countless times, turning me inside out, one cut at a time. My arms. My stomach. My legs. Cut after excruciating cut, I bled and silently wept.
Soaked in my own blood and urine, drifting in agony and lost in a sea of fear, I was steadfast in my desire to live.
“Luca, there are going to be scars—I won’t look like I did before.”
“I love you, Alessia. You’re mine, and I can’t let you go. Not now, not ever,”
I was in love with Luca Romano.
He was my world, and I was his.
