Seducing The Mafia Lord's Stepbrother
I managed, my voice steadier than I expected, "as the man who taught me that being broken doesn't mean being unworthy of love. You looked at the most damaged parts of me and called them brave instead of burdensome. You gave me a home when I'd forgotten what the word even meant. I promise to spend the rest of my life loving every version of you — the boy who hid bread in his pockets, and the man who built an empire out of nothing but survival, and the husband I get to keep for the rest of my days."
When he finally kissed me as his wife, the pavilion erupted into applause and Loretta's open sobbing, and somewhere a champagne cork popped early, and I laughed against his mouth, full and unguarde