Luca Ferraro is a revered Italian mafia boss with a cold heart that is thawed by Elena Rossetti, a kleptomaniac woman who agrees to marry him when caught stealing from him to avoid a death sentence. Elena Rossetti grew up fending for herself by stealing, she lives an average life until she steals from the dangerous Luca Ferraro, her only way out is marriage to a man she should be scared of. When love suddenly visits them, will it be enough to help them weather the storm?
View MoreELENA'S POV “Just get the red sweater” Luca waved toward the row of cozy sweaters while I rolled my eyes at him.“That's not how shopping works,” I said.Sighing, he put his phone to his ear. “Clearly. I don't know how any of this works. I never had to go shopping especially not for women's clothing”“Well now that you're married,” I paused emphasizing on the word but getting no reaction from him. “you might as well know how to do that and rule no 1”He looked up at me and tilted his head. “Seriously? You have rules for shopping?” He asked with wide eyes and an indignant look on his face.“Yes, I do. Care to listen?”“Do I have a choice?” He asked.“No” I snorted.“Then lay it on me”“Firstly, when you're on an outing with your wife, you shouldn't be holding your phone all the time like that,” I said, rolling my eyes as I pulled out a black sweater from the racks.“Oh really? My bad” he said simply as he pocketed his phone back into his pocket.“Also you should help me get some cloth
ELENA'S POV “When are we going to start what we came here for?”, I asked, putting on a fresh layer of red savvy lipstick in front of the mirror.“When am I…” he corrected.I rolled my eyes, releasing my hair from the tight bun I had tied it into so that it could fall freely.“Oh please” I muttered. “you don't think that I would stay in the hotel room alone, did you?” I asked, crossing my arms over my chest while looking at him through the mirror.He was checking out a blue shirt with dark eyes and clearly avoiding my gaze.“Elena, you're not coming with me for this. I don't want to go meet Kiara with you. No offense…” he muttered.That got my attention immediately. Who was Kiara and why couldn't I follow him? He had simply said he was going to pay a visit to an old friend here and nothing more.“She's just a friend. Was a friend” he muttered, dropping the shirt onto the bed.“Hm. So have you heard any news from the reaper?”, I asked, trying to so desperately change the topic.“No, he
ELENA'S POV A day passed in a blur after that and now, we were standing at the airport, coming out of Luca's private plane, his guards at the airport hurriedly coming to take our luggage.“Kings Hotel,” Luca said simply as one of them with a black suit unlike the rest approached us.The man looked over me and bowed before nodding and leaving.“Kings Hotel?” I asked, looking up at him through my dark shades.It was impromptu so I had only packed light clothes and a few other necessities. Now I regretted it, my choice of clothes was terrible. This place was freezing.“Yeah, that's where we'd be lodged,” he said, his suit creasing slightly as he adjusted his cuffs, his hard eyes staring at the black car approaching us.“I would have thought you owned a mansion here” I muttered.He looked down at me amused just as the car pulled up beside us. “I do but there's no need for people I'm here, is there?” He asked, opening the car door for me.“Oh right, as guessed. Anyways…”, I muttered, clim
ELENA'S POV “Yes, Lorenzo?” I heard his voice.My eyes fluttered open and I rolled over to the side, groaning.Uh, why couldn't he go make the call outside the room or something?“Send it” his voice sounded hard and that was what snapped me out of my daze.I blinked awake and sat up.He was sitting by the edge of the bed, shirtless and backing me.When had he taken off the shirt?Wow, I never had time to appreciate the beauty of the tattoos that littered his back, a dragon that spanned from his lower neck to his back, and a few other writings at strategic places.But what caught my eyes were the faint wounds. Scars.My eyes widened and I sat up, he was still talking on the phone but he suddenly tensed as if realizing I was already awake.“Fast,” he said simply, then hung up the phone.Turning around to look at me while I groaned having lost sight of the tattoos and scars, he smiled at me.“Morning..” he said huskily as he leaned down to press a kiss to my forehead.I could get used t
ELENA'S POV I don't know what I'm doing.Okay, maybe I do.It wasn't that hard to wrap my hands around him and kiss him back.After a few moments, he pulled back and his blue eyes sparkled briefly.“How was that? Huh?” He asked.I rolled my eyes. “Don't ask me that. That's just weird” I said, my body hot as I stood up from the couch.He sat up and watched me move in the dim light.“Where are you going, Elena?” He asked, his tone husky.“I just think I should grab a bite of something” I muttered.In reality, I wanted to just avoid him but it seemed that he wasn't getting the hint.“You sure? You look tense?” He said with a hint of amusement.I turned to him from the kitchen and frowned. “I am not. Anyways, I think I should head up, I just lost my appetite, thank you very much”He groaned and stood up from the couch, his eyes still sparkling with excitement.“So what now? You're gonna avoid me when you just kissed me?”, he said bluntly.I bit down on my lower lip, taking a deep breath
LUCA'S POV My patience was running thin as I drove back to the mansion.That goddamn letter. They were toying with me and apparently, they knew.The letter was short and simple.15th October…That was all the message read, nothing more.And it shouldn't bother me but it did because that day was an important date in my life that haunted me.My father's death.Fuck!I almost banged my hair on the steering in frustration.Did they know? Did they know what had truly happened? Fuck I was screwed.As I neared the mansion, my heart was heavy with dread. Oh shit. Elena was home and I had screwed our plans for this.I entered the mansion, parking my car expertly while my men moved closer to me but I just raised a hand to stop them.I didn't even understand myself at this point.Walking into the house seemed to take an eternity as I stumbled into the house and collapsed on the chair, my eyes distant.The sound of footsteps down the stairs rocked my tired brain and I looked up to see Elena step
LUCA'S POV “What do you mean you don't know?!” I asked my right hand, my hand sweeping everything on the table off in anger.He didn't flinch, just buried his face in his hands, a look of confusion crossing his hard features.“Don Luca, that was all we got”, he repeated.I had arrived at the goddamn warehouse and there was nothing to show me except the dead body of Enrico. What was he even doing here?“You sure there's nothing else here?” I asked, looking around what seemed to be an office in the warehouse.He shook his head. “We're still looking around but I just had to call you to come see it. Who would have dared to kill Enrico and why?”“That's not my Business. Enrico had a lot of goddamn enemies, my problem Is that somewhere out there, someone with that godforsaken number is trying to ruin the family and it's somehow involved with Enrico. The person didn't kill Enrico for fun. Lorenzo, I don't know how you'll do it but find out who was here” I said, running a hand through my hai
LUCA'S POV She had long slept off while I was awake, looking down at her features in the dim light.I didn't like how this was turning out. She was becoming my personal weakness and the only thing that was keeping me grounded. I liked the feeling of having someone but I also feared that she would leave.In the beginning, I wanted to stay away but now I'm not so sure I wanted her to leave.Her actions tonight showed me that maybe she didn't want to also Sighing, I stroked her hair, resisting the urge to press my lips to her forehead again. That would be creepy but I really wanted to.Things were going a bit bad in the group and I couldn't afford another distraction like her, I had someone who probably wanted me dead so I had to keep my guard up.Mum coming with her own opinions just managed to piss me off. Seriously? I should make my cousin the consigliere and let my right hand step down? Bullshit. I had Immediately shut down the idea. My cousin was the last person I wanted to put th
ELENA'S POV “Sit dear” the woman urgedForcing a smile at her, I sat down beside her and crossed my legs. “I see you're already getting comfortable in the house”She nodded and gestured to the flowers in my hand.“Are those for me?”, she asked with a smile.“Oh, umm it's for you and his mum,” I said smiling.She nodded and leaned back on the chair, her brown eyes staring at me.“So um how are you liking the house?” I asked, trying to ease the tension I felt.She shrugged. “It's not really my first time here”“Oh,” I muttered then looked in the direction of the room that Luca had entered with his mum.“So about the stunt of earlier. I'm sorry if I put you on edge. I just wanted to know what type of woman had stolen his heart”“Ah, it's no problem. You're close to him, aren't you? That's why you're feeling this way”“Oh no, He hates me I think. Let's say my husband pissed him off” she said then smiled. “When he was alive, that is”I was silent, just watching the woman who leaned forwar
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