Like I still love him.Dominic doesn’t think rules apply to him. He never has. Not with me, not with Gianna, not with anyone.He thinks he can go over everyone’s head and handpick someone’s future. He believes everyone, including the people he claims to care about, are just pieces on a board he gets
Aurora POVI can’t move.I can’t breathe.All I can do is slowly raise my head from where I’ve huddled into Gianna’s side and watch as the man I trusted and the man who just promised to collect my best friend like she’s an important package stare each other down. Dominic’s jaw is locked so tight I c
Aurora POVWho is this man?And more importantly: how does he know Gianna’s name?My brain tries to make sense of it, scrambling for any reasonable explanation, but there’s only one answer that keeps circling back with growing certainty.This is the man Dominic went to meet in Russia.And if that’s
Aurora POVGianna corners me in my room the second Dominic leaves.“Okay,” she fixes me with a stern look, arms crossed over her chest. “What the hell is going on?”I blink, still sitting on the edge of my bed from when I sunk down onto it after Dominic left. My fingers brush along the edge of the c
Luca laughed loudly, the sound echoing off of the steel containers surrounding them. “My, my! He admits it. It certainly is a glorious day, wouldn’t you say, Romero?”Aside from the slight twitch to his eye, Romero remained quiet.They made their way across the lot, passing stacks of weathered conta
Dominic POVThings were finally looking up.Dominic hadn’t expected that. Honestly, hadn’t dared to. Not when this whole thing had started as a necessary evil to avenge his mother. An arranged marriage and a blood-soaked business strategy that somehow had turned into something more romantic.Aurora