LOGINI slept with my brother's best friend. And I didn't even know who he was. --- The first time I saw Rafael De Luca, he was a stranger by the pool with sin in his smile and hunger in his icy blue eyes. He kissed me like I was air and he'd been drowning. Then I learned his name. My brother's best friend. The heir to the De Luca empire. My family's sworn enemy. I should have walked away. Instead, I let him ruin me. One night of passion. One whispered "my little sunshine" against my skin. One secret I took with me when I disappeared without a trace. Now I'm back. Six years later, Rafael is colder than ever, Chicago's most feared mafia prince, and the man I'm being forced to marry. He doesn't know why I left. He doesn't know about the five-year-old secret waiting at home with his father's blue eyes. And he definitely doesn't know that one look from him still sets me on fire. "You're mine now, sole," he whispers against my lips on our wedding night. "And I'm going to find out why you left. Every. Damn. Reason." He thinks he's in control. He thinks he's the one ruining me. But Rafael De Luca doesn't know the truth yet. I didn't just sleep with my brother's best friend. I gave him a son. And when he finds out, this monster who wears obsession like armor will have to decide: Destroy me for my betrayal... Or surrender to the passion that could save us both.
View More~~SERAPHINA~~Six Months LaterI wait until Massimo has left the house completely, the car out of the driveway, leaving me alone with Luca for the day, before I turn to face Dr. Moretti and wiggle my eyebrows at her. "So?"She smiles at me, and I can't stop myself from chuckling a little at the mischief in her eyes. Over the past six months, Dr. Moretti and I have grown close. She has shared stories about when Massimo was a kid, how she helped raise almost every child in this family, and her childhood in Sicily, including how she came to work for the mafia. Anything and everything, and I eat up each and every one of her stories. She's one of the most incredible women I've ever met, and I'm grateful to have her in my life.She works with me on Luca's skills, and he makes much more progress than he did when he was with my mother every day. Yet another thing I have to be so, so grateful for.My mother has been thriving in the rehab facility that Massimo pays for, and as guilty as I feel
~~SERAPHINA~~Massimo's eyes are soft on mine when he takes me back to his room and drags me into the bathroom, where he proceeds to undress me one article of clothing at a time.It's heady, his attention. I feel his gaze on me, and his eyes never leave mine as he pulls my shirt up and over my head, nudges my pants down over the sides of my hips, and then kneels in front of me to take my shoes off one at a time. It's enough to make a lump rise in my throat, one that has absolutely nothing to do with the justice I just delivered to Dante.One might think I would feel stressed or regretful about the fact that Dante lost his life because of me. That Massimo looked at a man who had been closer than a brother to him for so many years and was able to pull the trigger to take his life with barely a blink.But I don't. Dante made his choices. I was a relatively innocent party in this scenario, and he went out of his way to make me the enemy. I don't know what things were like in the family be
~~MASSIMO~~It takes a few days for Seraphina to fully recover from the entire ordeal, and I watch her carefully as the hours and days pass to make sure that she's not falling into a panic or regressing at all.The thing about Seraphina is that she's so unbelievably strong, and she knows it. She tolerates my fussing for about a day and a half before she finally sets me straight, telling me that she's not some wilting flower and that she's not going to suddenly break just because she went through a shitty experience.She puts me in my place gently but with a glint in her eye that tells me she will absolutely suffer no fools when it comes to this.The fact that she's holding Luca, who is smiling and giggling at me while she's having this conversation, undermines some of her intent, but not enough to stop me from pressing the issue.Of course, while she is recovering, sleeping, and ensuring that our son knows she's around and not going anywhere, I'm working in the background to deal with
~~MASSIMO~~It takes a few days for Seraphina to fully recover from the entire ordeal, and I watch her carefully as the hours and days pass to make sure that she's not falling into a panic or regressing at all.The thing about Seraphina is that she's so unbelievably strong, and she knows it. She tolerates my fussing for about a day and a half before she finally sets me straight, telling me that she's not some wilting flower and that she's not going to suddenly break just because she went through a shitty experience.She puts me in my place gently but with a glint in her eye that tells me she will absolutely suffer no fools when it comes to this.The fact that she's holding Luca, who is smiling and giggling at me while she's having this conversation, undermines some of her intent, but not enough to stop me from pressing the issue.Of course, while she is recovering, sleeping, and ensuring that our son knows she's around and not going anywhere, I'm working in the background to deal with






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