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by
Cora Reilly
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December 1 - December 2, 2022
“There’s dark and light, there must be. Maybe it’s the same with twins, but it wasn’t split evenly between us. I got all the darkness and you got all the light.”
How could he when even I didn’t? “I won’t ever run from you, Nevio. I’ll always be at your side, no matter what.” “You swear?” “I swear.”
“I love you more than life itself, Mia Cara. Never forget that.”
It was only fitting that I should fall in love with a man who was just as bad, as brutal, as cruel as the men who’d raised me.
But Greta wasn’t a girl who deserved to be an affair. She was a woman who deserved to be someone’s number one, their one and only queen.
He didn’t know how my heart picked up when I thought about Amo.
I was bound to marry Cressida, and quite possibly falling for Greta Falcone.
I hadn’t picked her. I had lain eyes on her and had been a goner. Fuck, if I knew how that was possible.
Greta’s smile brightened. And fuck, seeing it, I would have promised her the world. What was this girl doing to me?
She was everything I wanted. I couldn’t stop thinking about her. I could hardly breathe when she was gone and I could hardly breathe when she was close.
My secrets had always been his to carry, like his had been mine.
“But you’re the one I want.” “Sometimes we can’t have what we want,”
Nevio would never accept me leaving Las Vegas, leaving him. I was the anchor he held onto in his eternal dark. Without me, Nevio would give in to darkness, he’d embrace it wholly, would let it swallow him, and his actions in the night would become all that there was to him.
“Come on. All that matters is our family, Greta, and we’ll always be by your side.”
Nevio sank down beside me and wrapped his arm around me. I put my head down on his shoulder,
I realized that everything I’d sworn myself, everything I’d done this last year didn’t matter when I looked into her eyes.
She had no reason to trust me with this, or at all, our families were caught up in a war and she and I hadn’t had any contact in a year, and yet she’d called me in her worst hour.
“But who am I to decide who deserves to die or not?”
“I regret every moment I’m not with you.”
But Greta…Greta, she kept my heart with her in Las Vegas.
I wasn’t sure how much longer I could live like this, but I knew I couldn’t live without Amo either. Just thinking about it made my heart ache in the worst way possible.
Vitiello men had high walls around their hearts but once they fell for a woman, they fell hard, and Amo was utterly in love with Greta.
Other people’s lives meant nothing to him. Very few people mattered to Nevio, but these select few were his whole world, and he would do anything to protect them, and to keep them close. He would stop at nothing. I knew that better than anyone. Nobody knew Nevio better than me.
Nevio sank down beside her and took her hand. “I won’t let you leave me, you know that.”
Greta loved that fucker Amo Vitiello.
Remo was a fucking madman. Nevio made his father look like a fucking choir boy.
My children chose love, and it was bringing the Famiglia to the brink of an internal war.
I’d rather die by your side than live on without my family.”
Now we’ll settle our differences and join forces as a very messed up family.”
I’m a Falcone, Dad. I’ll survive this and come out stronger, right?”
“I never quite got it but seeing how you look at her now, I get why you went through all the trouble.”
This was it. The moment I’d waited far too long for. I was marrying the woman I loved with every fiber of my being.
Even if I had to eat tofu scramble, seitan schnitzel and soy ice cream for the rest of my life, I’d still be the happiest asshole in the whole world.
Congrats on the first Famiglia Capo to be born in Las Vegas.”
My twins were Vitiellos and Falcones.

