Nancy Grey
The silence stretched between us, heavy and cold. My heart was beating so loudly I was sure he could hear it. I kept my eyes on his, waiting for him to explode. Waiting for something worse.
For a moment, he pulled back.
Then he leaned in close, his breath hot against my ear.
"Don't think this is over," he murmured, his voice low and dangerous. "You got lucky tonight, Denise. But you're my wife now. Every part of you belongs to me. And soon, you'll stop pretending you don't want that."
He doesn't even know my real name.
Dahlia Rivera has spent her life in her twin sister's shadow. But when Denise vanishes on the night of her arranged marriage to ruthless mafia don Luca Romano, Dahlia is forced to walk down the aisle in her place.
What begins as a sacrifice soon becomes a prison. Cold and unforgiving, Luca reveals she was given to him not for love, but as payment for her father's debts. Trapped in his mansion, Dahlia braces herself for a loveless marriage—until she glimpses the man behind the don.
As danger closes in and passion ignites, Dahlia finds herself falling for the husband she was never meant to have. But Luca doesn't believe in love—and his silence could break her more than any enemy's bullet.
And when Denise returns, demanding to reclaim what was "hers," Dahlia must risk everything—not only for Luca's love, but for her very life.
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