My Forbidden Fruit
I was only eleven when my life changed. My parents were gone, and my innocence was taken away.
I grew up in a world where danger wore a suit and love felt like power. I learned to guard myself. But nothing prepared me for him, Lorenzo Vitalio.
He is my guardian’s stepbrother. He watched me grow up. He is the man I shouldn’t want. Yet he is the only one I do.
He’s 32, and I’m 20. The age difference is wrong. The feelings? Right—so painfully right that it hurts.
I’ve loved him for as long as I’ve known what love is. But to him, I was just the girl he had to protect, not the woman he could claim.
So I did what any heartbroken girl would do—I pushed him away. I made him notice me. I broke rules, crossed boundaries, and opened up the cracks in both of us.
Just when I thought I’d finally lost him, he came back.
Now the question is, can love survive the burden of secrets, danger, and years of denial?
Or am I doomed to suffer for a man who knows how to protect but not how to love?
This is the story of Evelyn Rose and Lorenzo Vitalio. A love too forbidden to begin. Too deep to end. And far too reckless to ignore.