Dominic POVThe second half of the meeting went exactly as Dominic expected: badly.Worse, even, if that is possible.At one point, Francesco nearly knocked over a glass pitcher in his rant about needing “proof” that the Russians weren’t actually in the city and in the middle of planning a coordinat
We merge with the crowd while heading up to the front desk to collect our tickets that Camilla reserved for us, keeping our eyes down as we make our way through the line.The agent barely glances at our passports before printing the boarding passes and handing them over to us. Camilla’s documents ho
Aurora POVGianna grabs the baseball cap she’d stuffed into her bag earlier and jams it onto her head, tucking in her dark curls while we climb into the car parked out back behind the motel. The keys are right where Luca left them the last time he drove us to my family’s estate: right under the viso
Thankfully, he wasn’t that brilliant.“The point is,” Francesco continued, “if they’re here, we need to act now. Before they do.”Dominic’s voice cut through the chaos, steady and calm. “You send out a hunting party without intel and you’ll spook the other families in the city. Showing that much for
Dominic POVDominic was still fuming. Even days later, the rage lingered just beneath the surface, coiled and ready to strike.Ever since Alek showed up in the States and tried to snatch Gianna right out from under him, Dominic hadn’t known a single moment of peace. The audacity of it, the sheer ner
Besides, how would Alek have known Gianna even existed if Dominic never presented her to him as an option in the first place? This is textbook what these types of men do—they trade us around like we’re nothing more than glorified sex dolls, discarding us when we’re no longer useful to them.It makes