Vittoria shook her head before she understood she was doing it. Dane stopped with his mouth still close enough to make her shake. "No?" "Not no," she whispered. His hand flattened over her lower stomach. "Too much?" "I don't know." "Yes, you do." His voice dropped. "Poor baby. Nobody's paid attention this long, have they?" Her breath broke. "Don't hide from it," he said, mouth brushing her inner thigh. "Breathe." "Dane." "I have you, princess." "Let it happen." ---------------------------------------------------------------- Vittoria Bellini promised herself one year without chasing the perfect man. Then she meets Dane Calder. Brilliant. Feared. Cruelly attractive. The attorney everyone in San Diego knows by name. Everyone except Vittoria. She thinks he is rude, abrasive, arrogant, and far too tempting. He thinks she is a spoiled little princess playing at kindness. They are opposing counsel in a high-stakes lawsuit, forced into courtrooms, depositions, late-night calls, and arguments that keep ending too close. The more Dane tries to prove her softness is fake, the more dangerous she becomes to him. Because Dane does not just want to win against her. He wants to ruin her composure. And Vittoria is starting to realize that wanting him might not mean betraying herself. Mature enemies-to-lovers legal romance. Opposing counsel. He falls first and fights it. She does not cuss. He absolutely does.

Everyone knows the name 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱. A ruthless new don. A ghost in the underworld. A man who took over a kingdom built on blood and fear. But they're wrong. The 𝘮𝘢𝘯 they were searching for was a woman all along. 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐚 𝐅𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐞 is the woman hiding behind the most dangerous name in the mafia, and she'll do whatever it takes to protect the empire she stole from a corrupt leader who deserved to die, it just so happened to be her father. No one knows who she really is. No one knows the face behind the name. And no one knows that the most reputable real estate agent they underestimate is the same person every mafia family is trying to destroy. Until 𝘩𝘪𝘮. 𝐃𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐃𝐞 𝐋𝐮𝐜𝐚 is her biggest rival in the business world. The heir to an allied mafia family. The man she was promised to before she even knew the deal existed. He thought he knew Alex. He was wrong. Now, bound by a marriage neither of them wanted, they must survive enemies closing in from every direction. But when rejections and petty sabotages turn into undeniable tension, the biggest threat might not be the people hunting them. It might be falling for the one person who knows exactly who the other is.