Valentina has always been the dutiful daughter, yet her father never loved her. She hates their world, where women are treated like pawns, married off only to secure political alliances. Her father never saw her as a daughter, only as a burden. The one thing he despised most about her was her dark complexion. To their world, she was considered defective. But one mistake changed her life forever. The mistake of falling in love with a gardener, someone far beneath her family's status. When her brothers found out, they brutally killed him right in front of her eyes on her birthday. That day, something inside her died with him. Soon after, her father forced her into marriage with Alejandro Bellini, the ruthless underboss of the Spanish mafia, having a one-year-old daughter of his own. She agreed without even seeing his face, only hearing whispers of his cold and merciless reputation. But the real shock comes when Valentina finally sees him for the first time. Both she and her family were also hiding a dangerous truth from him. A truth that could destroy everything. Valentina doesn't know how he will react when he discovers it. She is carrying another man's child.

BEING PUBLISHED BY W BY WATTPAD FREE STORY. PAID BONUS CHAPTERS. Two complete opposites. One assignment. After making it through her freshman year at the University of Southern California. Avalon Miller planned to get through sophomore year and every year after that by doing the same thing. Fitting in. What more could she possibly want? Apparently, a confident and sexy football player who has every girl falling at his feet. Everyone except Avalon, anyway. Her plan for staying under the radar vanishes into oblivion when she must spend the entire semester with the football players, including the senior heartthrob and star quarterback Noah Jackson. When Avalon crashes into his life and doesn't fall to his feet like every other girl, it's a breath of fresh air. One he can't get enough of. He introduces her to the life of a football player, but never expected to take an interest in her along the way. Something no one, not even him, expected as he doesn't date. Both of them are holding back from loving again due to their past relationships but love is something he didn't even know he was looking for until she walked into his life and something, she didn't know she was missing until she falls in love with him along the way. A journalism major and a football player...what could possibly go wrong? [The Jackson Family Series Book 1]