Half a Lifetime Later—My Mafia Princess is Finally Mine
“Back then, I didn’t know what hate really meant.”
He leaned back, turning his head to look at me fully now. “And now?”
“Now I know it’s not the opposite of love,” I said quietly. “It’s just what’s left when everything else burns out.”
Hate. It’s what I felt for Antonio, not Rino. I never hated Rino, I just resented him for existing in my world at all. Antonio, though… I hated him so fiercely I wanted him dead.
I smoothed the front of my skirt one last time, “I should go,” I said, standing, and he rose with me like he was my shadow.