Venom & Vows
They're Off Limits.
They know they shouldn't. They're going to anyway.
Forced proximity. Messy boundaries.
Some marriages are built on love. Theirs was built on obligation — and neither of them is happy about it.
But between the power plays, the locked jaws, and the electricity neither of them asked for... something dangerous is starting to grow.
Seraphina Rhea Darmos doesn't do soft. She's 25, she built Olympus Rhea Publishing from the ground up, and she's spent her entire life earning her place in a world that only makes room for the ruthless. As a daughter of the Greek Mafia, she knows what's expected of her — she just never thought they'd actually make her go through with it.
A husband. An alliance. A cage dressed up as a wedding ring.
Knox has never wanted for anything. At 28, he's the underboss and heir to the Sicilian Mafia — feared, untouchable, and completely uninterested in settling down. He believes in blood, loyalty, and keeping outsiders exactly where they belong: out. Marriage was never part of his plan.
Until it was.
Now they're living under the same roof, bound by a vow neither of them made willingly — and every single day is a battle. A war of silence and sharp words. Of stolen glances that last a second too long. Of two people who are too proud to admit that maybe, just maybe, this isn't as unbearable as they swore it would be.
They hate each other. They have to. Because the alternative is so much more terrifying.
If you've been looking for your next obsession — this is it.
Chaos, chemistry, and two people desperately trying not to fall. They're Off Limits will keep you up past midnight and have you reading every last page with your heart in your throat.
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Chapter: Chapter 5Leander is already at the table. An almost identical hoodie, different colour, sunglasses somehow even larger than mine, and his head is resting directly on the table with the resigned quality of someone who has accepted his circumstances and stopped fighting them.Our parents are seated. Our father has coffee. Our mother, Elara, has tea and the expression of someone who had a full night's sleep and finds the sight of her two children deeply amusing in a way she is making a gentle effort to conceal."Neither of you," our father says, "listened to a single word I said about pacing yourselves.""Food," Leander says, without lifting his head. "Please just start the food.""Leander told Mrs V to wake me up," I say, settling into my chair and reaching for the water. "I want that formally acknowledged."Leander lifts his head. One eye opens. "I didn't have a choice.""You had options.""She was the only viable option and you know it.""That," I say, turning to face both parents with the gra
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Chapter: Chapter 4I do not wake up. I am dragged out of unconsciousness by Mrs V, which is a very different experience. One moment I am somewhere warm and horizontal and very far from awareness, and the next I am vertical in my bathroom with water hitting my face, still wearing the Prada dress from the night before. I look down at the wet black fabric clinging to my legs and feel something that belongs firmly in the grief category.The dress, I think. My beautiful dress.Mrs V is already gone. She appears, performs the necessary function, and leaves. I stand under the shower and let the water run too hot and think nothing useful for a while. The hangover sits behind my eyes with the patient certainty of something that knows it has all morning.Then I think about the men from the street.They surface without any invitation, the way things do when you have spent real energy not thinking about them. The tall one first. The murky green eyes, cold and assessing, the rings on his fingers, the single word he
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Chapter: Chapter 3Leander and Caspian are watching when I return to the dance floor, their attention shifted into something quieter and more focused, the kind of watching that comes from people who notice when something has changed even if they cannot name the specific thing. Unusually for me, I do not mind it. I find it steadying. I lean into it instead of resisting it, and I let the music and Amara's laughter fill the space where the hurt was sitting.We are dancing when it happens.Amara spins beside me with her arms up, fully in her main character era, and then she is simply not there anymore. Gone from beside me, replaced by empty space, and I stumble sideways in my heels and round on whoever just pulled her away."What the hell," I say, to the broad back of a man who has just pulled Amara against his side like something he is in the process of reclaiming.He begins to turn toward me.I see Caspian and Leander move before I finish the thought. Simply there, flanking me, Leander a half step in fron
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Chapter: Chapter 2The collision is solid. I bounce off a wall of dark fabric and stumble back and every thought I was holding dissolves instantly in the shock of it."Scotland," I say. The last word my brain was processing, exiting before I can stop it."Move."The voice is deep. Accented in a way I cannot immediately identify, and the temperature of it is about as warm as a January pavement. It cuts through the tequila fog in a way very little has managed tonight and I look up.The man in front of me is extraordinarily handsome. Dark hair pushed slightly back. Olive skin. Eyes murky and green in the low street light, framed by bone structure that looks carved rather than born. He also radiates the specific energy of someone genuinely dangerous. Not performed danger. The real, quiet, cold kind that belongs to someone who has never once needed to prove it.He is looking down at me the way you look at something that has attached itself to your shoe. Clear irritation, very little patience, and the expecta
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Chapter: Chapter 1Seven hours later, I am absolutely, comprehensively, no cap, shitfaced.Olympus is the kind of club that other clubs aspire to become. It lives in the heart of Manhattan, belongs to my family, and is large and loud and beautiful and the champagne is always cold and the music always hits different. Tonight it is draped in deep burgundy and gold for my birthday, and the whole room smells like expensive perfume and the particular quality of a night going very well.Amara, it turns out, is a full-blown savage on the dance floor with zero inhibitions and a bottomless tolerance for tequila shots. She has matched me drink for drink since she arrived, which is bussin behaviour in the best possible way. She goes off on the dance floor like she was born to it, and every thirsty man in this club has clocked her within the first ten minutes and has been lurking near the floor like a saucy NPC ever since. She understood the assignment and earned extra credit without being asked.Across the room, L
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Chapter: Prologue"Sera."Silence."Seri."I do not look up."Seraphina."I turn a length of silk between my fingers."Serafina."I move along the rack."Serpentina.""Seraphew."That last one does it. I snap my head up from the blouses and turn the full force of my glare on Caspian, who is leaning against the clothing display with his arms crossed and an expression belonging on a man enduring slow torture rather than a man standing inside the most beautiful store in Manhattan on a perfectly functional Tuesday."What," I say. Not a question. A warning.He gestures broadly at the store around us, the pristine shelves, the spotlit shoes, the saleswomen moving between clients like unhurried swans. "I'm dying," he announces. "I need ice cream. Can we please just go get ice cream?"The attendant nearest to him, a woman in a sharply pressed blazer, gives him a look that begins at his shoes and ends somewhere around his hairline, slow and measured and full of quiet professional judgment.Caspian is six foot t
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