Part of the 'The Cost of Blood' Collection. This can be read as a stand-alone - - - "I do not love you and I don't want you anywhere near me. You are merely a business deal that will make me and my mafia more powerful" Vincenzo scorns as he roughly grips my chin so I can't look away from him. "I understand" I whisper gently as I stare into his cold, brown eyes. - - - Alexandria Rayne Castillo, the daughter of the Italian don and a medical student in America, would do anything for her family even if that means giving up everything. Vincenzo Lombardo is the new don of the Sicilian Mafia, after he watched his mother die all he cares about is his mafia and how he could improve it. He is known as vicious and destructive. What will happen when Vincenzo father arranges a marriage between the two?

I was normal before this. Before him. Normal job, normal flat, the bliss normality of the ignorance of all the real monsters. I used to think that one time murderers were what went bump in the night. But compared to Xavier Falicci? Child's play. And I was happy in my ignorance. So so happy. Then he stole me from my life. Made me watch people be murdered. Made me murder people. But he made me feel things, so many different things. Through all of the pain, through all of the pleasure, through every emotion that he's made run through my veins, I try to think of a worse way to live. Because being his captive has changed me. Changed everything about me. As soon as I was kidnapped, the old Brooklyn died. The old me, the one who knew the difference between good and evil, right and wrong, justice and redemption. But, you know, through it all, all of the madness since that fateful night, I've realised something. Life isn't like that. Life isn't serving justice and slamming the prison cell door then riding off into the mafia free sunset. It's harder than that. Rougher. And Xavier has shown me everything that I wanted. Who knows, maybe being the mafia boss' kidnapped detective fuck buddy wasn't that bad after all... EXTREME SEXUAL CONTENT EXTREME STRONG LANGUAGE MATURE SCENES OF VIOLENCE I think it's a brilliant book, but I'm biased! Give it a read- what have you got to lose?... TRAILER: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vh8rIs7_pxE COMPLETED AS OF 22/09/18- unedited so a few grammatical errors but nothing major!

Mia Cohen is what you'd call a sheltered girl, she grew up with very few hardships, had a stable home and people who genuinely loved and cared for her. Though Mia is very independent she doesn't like depending on anyone not even her family, she's tried hard to cut ties with her security blanket and make it out on her own ,making her own decisions and mistakes. One decision was leaving home to Pursue her career another was LETTING HIM IN , In more ways than one. Thee Dominic Romero , New York's finest bachelor And Prince of 'The Romero Crime Family' set to take over the reigns, Yet Mia has no Idea just who the man is she let into her sheets and heart. How much trouble does he end up causing her ? Does she get sucked in to the world of Guns,Money,Drugs, Murder? 🤫 That's a secret I'll never tell, YOU HAVE to keep reading to find out 🙏🏼 ⚠️Smut Warning ⚠️