By Fate I Conquer (Sins of the Fathers, #4)

by Cora Reilly

“I really don’t have time to play dolls right now,” Nevio muttered as he followed Aurora into the room. I froze under the bed where I’d been lying for two hours. “I’m sorry, but I had to get him. He was going mad from worry about you,” Aurora said, sounding absolutely miserable. “What?” Nevio said then fell silent. “Fuck.”

He reached for me but I tensed and backed away. His expression transformed with realization and pain,

“That’s how nature works, you know?” he murmured. “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.”

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.

Some people believe in love at first sight. Bullshit. Hate at first sight? Definitely a thing.

What if you met your soulmate at the wrong time?

I’d grown up among cruel men. But fate was so much crueler than any of them. Amo Vitiello was my soulmate… …and now married to another woman.

Nevio searched my eyes. “You’ll get over him.” “I know.”

“Not if I kill Amo, then Luca won’t ever agree to peace again.” His grin was full of darkness. It was the smile he carried at night. It wasn’t a smile he showed me. “You’d do that to me?” Nevio’s eyes remained indifferent. “I’d do it for you even if you can’t see it.”

“Oh mia cara, this is my city, my territory, my rules. As long as I take breath, I’ll stop you from seeing Amo again, even if I have to lock you in your room.”

“I hate you,” I whispered. Dad tensed.

“I won’t be without you again, Greta. You are mine until I take my last breath. I love you more than everything else in the world.”

I act out of lunatic rage.”

“Aria, I love you more than anything else in the world, and nothing, absolutely nothing will convince me to have you there.

“Don’t let the dark swallow you just because I’m not there to watch over you. One day you’ll find someone who’ll shine brightly.”