Forbidden to Love (Mazzone Mafia, #2)

by Siobhan Davis

Loving someone who doesn’t love you back has got to be the most agonizing thing to endure.

If I could, I would fight to the ends of time for you, dolcezza.

“I would take a thousand bullets for you, dolcezza, and you never need to thank me. Protecting you is the one thing I am permitted to do. And I am going to protect you until the day I die, even if I have to cherish you from the shadows.”

I open my mouth to tell him I love him again, but he shakes his head, placing his hand over my mouth. “Don’t,” he whispers in a choked voice. “Don’t say it. It hurts too much.”

“In every lifetime, I would choose you, Natalia.”

“‘It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.’”