Forbidden to Love (Mazzone Mafia, #2)

by Siobhan Davis

“‘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.’”

“‘“I taught him,” he quavered, “to trust in love. I said: “when love comes, that is reality.” I said: “Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.”’”

“I think I’m destined to lose everyone I love. Destined to never know a moment’s happiness.” She drops her eyes, refusing to look at me, and I let go of her face.

“Maybe in the next lifetime, we will get to be together,” she says, smiling sadly before ripping her hand from mine and yanking the door open. “Until then,” she whispers, looking at me one final time as tears roll down her face. “Stay safe, my love.” And then she leaves. Taking every single part of my heart with her.

“I love you so much I can’t breathe sometimes. I ache for you, Natalia. In every part of me and in every way.”