Some vows were made to be broken. *** "You know, maybe this marriage is going to be exactly how I imagined." she says in a tone that's flat yet harsh, her eyes ice cold. "Oh? And how's that?" I ask with sarcasm dripping from my tongue, tilting my head. "Miserable and utterly loveless." *** I update when I feel like it:)

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?

*NOT FULLY EDITED* Brought together by mutual friends, Ophelia and Carlos were the butt of everyone's jokes, everyone saying how perfect they would be. However picture perfect the two seemed to be, with both battling demons their relationship abruptly ends. When Carlos is injured and Ophelia flees they're seemingly thrown out of each others lives for good, that is until they're forced together for a wedding where they're plummeted back into their toxic friends with benefits relationship. Both trying to fight their feelings, the universe seem to pull them together, how could one night change their lives so much? ---- "Let's run away together," he whispers, his fingers playing with the ends of my hair, "Just you and me Fia, get away from everyone," "You know we can't do that," I say sadly, wishing so badly we could. That it could just be us, just us against the world. "I think we both know we could," he says in a low voice, "And I think we both want to," // Reached #1 in travelling