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February 14 - February 14, 2023
I’m Natalia Carprio—the woman who fell in love with two dangerous men and started a war.
He’s the epitome of tall, handsome, and Italian. His thick hair, as black as his heart, is trimmed short. Black stubble covers his smooth cheeks and jawline—a jawline so sharp that he could cut people with it. An olive complexion, one people spend hours in the sun to achieve, complements his sea-green eyes—eyes so scary yet beautiful that they draw you in. Black-inked tattoos spread along his chest and disappear beneath his shirt.
“Payment plans?” Cristian scoffs. “Natalia, sweetheart, you couldn’t afford me in your lifetime.” He raises a brow. “Which might be fairly short if you have the Lombardi family on your back.”
The monster doesn’t come to you. You go to him.
Cristian pats my head as if I were a fucking dog. “Good girl.”
My problem is that red flags are my favorite attribute in a man. I can’t blame it on daddy issues because my father is kind. I’m just attracted to power-hungry, crazy-ass men.
I’ve made a deal with the devil.
She asked what she got herself into, but what the fuck did I get myself into?
“A little knife play never hurt anyone …” I wipe a hand across my mouth and smirk. “At least, not me.”
He snags my hand and licks my ring finger, sucking it into his mouth. “That ring doesn’t leave your finger again.”
“Choose something for our home. The queen needs to add her special touch to our castle.”
People fear me, but here this woman is, asking me to have a movie night with her. Even after I made her life hell in the beginning. She gave me forgiveness for the mistakes I’d made. Honesty is what I can do to make up for it.
Natalia is teaching me there’s more to life than being the head of the Marchetti family. I am a father, a son, and soon, a husband. And an Oreo fan, goddammit.
“Being someone’s weakness isn’t always bad, sweetheart. You being my weakness proves that no matter how hard I fight, I want you. I need you. There’d be no stopping my need for you, even if I killed myself trying. When I wake up in the morning, you’re my first thought. Not my business, or trouble, or who I need to kill. It’s you.”
