"Didn't you say that you were utterly disgusted by Gangsters? ", Katherine asked. "It's hard to resist a gangster who is a good man", I replied with a smirk. ---------------------- If you ever had the option of choosing any one of your parents, which one would you choose? Your Mom or your Dad? Given that your father is a gangster. Add to that the fact that your mother lied to you about your fathers death for the past 17 years and the only time she told you the truth had been the final moments of her life. Just to add a cherry to the already full-to-the-brink ice-cream, is the truth that your father killed his own wife for your legal custody and is practically holding you hostage. Put in your seatbelts and allow me, Alayna, to take you on a ride through my rollercoaster of a life. P.S:- Did I mention a smoking hot Gangster? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "How can you believe him? He's not even your own blood like me! He's not your family!", I yelled as I looked at my bodyguard and then at my ridiculously calm father. "Blood is what makes you related, like you and me. But loyalty is what makes you family, Princess", he replied.

"Hello, Josephine." An evil smirk formed on his perfectly carved face. ***** I've been working so hard since that day he told me that he doesn't love me anymore and he wanted a divorce. I asked him why and he just told me that he doesn't love me anymore and that I bored him in bed. It hurts me so much, especially when he brings home different women every night in our home to pleasure him at night, yet he has no clue that I'm already pregnant with our child. I signed the divorce papers and leave his house with my broken heart and my child with me. I didn't accept anything from him, that he insist that I should be taking it with me. I just left and start a new life in a new town while my child is growing inside of me. He doesn't know about OUR daughter until he comes into my brother's wedding. ***** Now in my brother's wedding here he is, standing tall and handsome as always, with that cocky smirk on his face. I hated him yet my heart keeps pounding violently in my chest. "What are you doing he-" "Mommy!" I remove my eyes from him and look at my Athena, to see her running towards me and wrap her arms on my waist as she smile up to me. Take note: *This book will be edited and some of the story lines will change.

Handcuffed series book 4. For Marc Paxton jr. the secrets of his past never leaves. He is reminded every day of the horrible act he committed. And when the new temporary assistant Mia St. Patrick walked into his office, the spitting image of the woman he wants to forget he was further plagued by his crime. What will happen to him if he is constantly pushed to reveal parts of his past? Will he finally crumble and admit his wrong-doings? Will he be caught? Will he continue living as he has been living? What will his story be, and how will it end?