LOGIN“You hate me, don’t you?” Dante murmured, lips ghosting over mine in slow torture. “More than anything.” “Good.” The smirk on his face was sickening. “It’ll make it that much sweeter when you beg me to ruin you.” _ To escape a marriage to a tyrant, Amara Vitale makes a reckless bargain with a devil she’s hated all her life. Dante DeLaurentis. Her rival since childhood, sworn enemy to her family, and the man who would burn down whatever stood in his path to ash if it meant getting what he wants. The plan is simple: A fake engagement to save her from her father’s brutal alliance. But every lie they tell themselves, every kiss they fake, and every dangerous night in his world blurs the line between pretense and obsession. Soon, her greatest enemy becomes her fiercest protector, but also the man who could break her heart or ruin her family forever. In a world where blood and betrayal rule, love isn’t something she can afford. When enemies threaten to ruin everything she holds dear, Amara must decide if surrendering to Dante will save her…or destroy her completely.
View MoreAMARA“You look like absolute shit.”Hearing those words shouldn’t have instantly brought me to tears. But they did.“I mean that as sweetly as possible.” Bianca said, pulling down her designer sunglasses to look at me.I looked across our small outdoor table at the bistro, swirling my glass of water. It was Saturday afternoon. The streets of downtown Chicago were buzzing with shoppers, completely oblivious to the shootout that had almost claimed my life three weeks ago.“Good to see you too, B.” I muttered, leaning back in my chair.With my own phone smashed to pieces on my bedroom floor, I’d had to get creative to set this up. Two days ago, I’d borrowed Celeste’s laptop under the guise of looking at clothes online. Since Celeste was a trusted DeLaurentis, her personal device didn't have the same heavy firewalls as the rest of the house.And it sure as hell didn’t take much for me to slip onto an encrypted browser and send a quick message to Bianca’s private email.I studied my cousi
DANTE“I don’t care if you have to burn the entire block down.”It had been three weeks already since the shootout at that restaurant. The Thursday afternoon son felt sweltering under the sullen atmosphere of the estate. While the whole place felt like a fortress, I remained in my absolute position of jailer.“Really?” The deadpan look on Cassian’s face made my jaw tick.“I don’t care,” I leaned further back into my seat. “Nobody watches her.”Cassian stood in the doorway of my study. He didn’t so much as flinch. “We’ve swept the perimeter three times today. Leon’s been shadowing every move and making sure tabs on her are kept.”I nodded, something fluttering my chest. As it should be.But something in Cassian’s made it clear he wasn’t done. “You’re suffocating her, Dante.”“I’m doing what’s necessary.” I retorted sharply.“Well, she’s going to break soon.” Cassian moved a little from the doorway, daring to take a single step further into the room.“Then let her break!” I snapped, tos
AMARAThe blood was everywhere. Mostly smeared over every part of my hand. Dante DeLaurentis’ blood. And yet for some stupid reason, my mind found its way to a memory I’d buried as deep as I could.Five years ago, when I had shared one heated moment with Dante in the abandoned closet of Iridium High’s bleachers. It was a stupid, dangerous memory to bring up. Especially now. Yet, the longer I look at the dark red that coated my fingers, the harder the past and present seemed to collide in a sickeningly, dark rush. I had every right to hate him. He’d spent his entire life trying to ruin my grades, trying to outrun me in everything academic, and most importantly, trying to destroy my family in the mafioso war.I should hate him.But I couldn’t. Not when he had jumped without hesitation. As soon as another shot exploded after his last words, he had brought me down to the floor and even protected from the bullets that rained on us.“Dante.” I called out as he trudged into the study.No re
DANTEIt was too early that morning for my knuckles to already be split. The gym wall downstairs had taken the brunt of my anger, but it wasn't enough.I stood by the study window, turning Celeste’s recovered earring over in my palm. The sharp metal bit into my skin.It was a message from Kaz Vitale. A reminder that he had breached my estate, caused chaos, and walked out alive.My father always said a DeLaurentis never bled without making the world pay tenfold. Yet here I was, pacing my office, while the Vitale girl was recovering in my guest wing.“Be a good pawn too. Won’t want you getting killed before I’ve gotten enough use out of you.”Amara’s words from last night replayed in my mind. Even cornered, with her back against the wall and my body pinning her down, she hadn't flinched. She had stared right into my eyes, stripping away my leverage. I had been the one left staring at her lips.I tossed the earring onto the desk. It clattered against a stack of decrypted financial files.
DANTEI’ve had a knack for being impulsive in the oddest moments. As a child, it didn’t matter if I had to jump into a pool just to get my lucky coin, or step onto the road in pursuit of my dog, ‘Lucky’. I’d leap before even giving it a thought.So, when Amara had dangled that dangerous proposal in
DANTEThere weren’t a lot of things that could piss me off. One thing I prided myself on, was the amount of self-control I always had, regardless of the situation.Which was why I didn’t understand the reason for that irritation that wouldn’t crawling underneath my skin.“What do you mean you let h
AMARA“What?”“Runaway with me.” He repeated, voice filled with a certainty that chilled me to the core.I bit my lip, letting the thought roll in my head over and over again. Run away with him? The idea sounded interesting, but it wasn’t so easy. My father’s web stretched to each and every part of
AMARA“This has to be a joke.”Except it wasn’t. When I’d been silent in the face of Dante’s question, he’d quietly started the car and started driving off. At first, I thought he was lying when he said he’d take us to one of his safehouses. I didn’t think he’d actually go through with it.Dante t












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