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Sold to the highest bidder to pay off a blood feud, I never imagined I would be the pawn in my father's fatal game. Still, here I am before Enzo De Luca, the most vicious mafia leader in the city. Though appealing, he is cold, deliberate, and as lethal. Though my heart races just from his proximity, it is his touch that ignites me. My body betrays me and reacts to him in ways I am powerless over. And I melt as he softly, commandingly says my name.

Enzo loves neither me nor another. In his deadly kingdom, I am only another bargain, another transaction. But every time we are alone, the conflict between us snaps—desire becomes a terrible addiction. Although I detest him for everything he stands for, I yearn for the way he consumes me, body and soul.

He has made it quite evident—our marriage is more about power than love. Still, every angry gaze and every snatched moment in the shadow reveals something different. Benevolent underneath his icy façade lies something broken that appeals to the darkest sides of me. But depending on a man like Enzo may mean losing everything.

Bound to him now, for better or worse, I am caught in a world where loyalty is brittle and treachery carries a bullet. Our friendship gets more perilous the more truths about his empire I find. And as the past calls for us, I have to question myself: will our passion be the thing that ruins us both or can I survive loving a guy like Enzo De Luca?

Burning in his arms is me. But in his universe, I could roast alive.

OWNED BY MR MAFIA

Just barely able to breathe, I could feel my pulse in my throat as I peered into Enzo's eyes. Deeply ingrained in me, the words I had been longing to utter whirled like a whirlwind. Still, the weight of the moment—that of what was happening—held them back.

His palm was inches from mine, and I could see the flutter of something in his eyes—something ripped between sorrow and rage. "You shouldn't have come here," he continued, his voice harsh and faintly evasive. "It is too perilous."

"You think I care about that now?," I turned back, my voice cutting. "You think I'm terrified of the danger when it's you I'm attempting to save?"

He moved forward, his body squeezing into me. Tension-filled, thick and heavy air crackled between us. "Lila, none of me require rescue. Not nowadays.

BETRAYAL IM THE SHADOWS