Revenge. I'm familiar with it. You have to be when you're the firstborn son of a notorious mafia leader. Death and vengeance have been the very foundations of my life. So who in their fucking mind would be stupid enough to cross me? My brother and I have been wrongfully convicted of a crime we didn't commit. We know who is behind this. We bid our time behind bars, planned and prepared for the day we got out. Now we're free and hungry for redemption. I know what must be done. I know whose blood will be spilled. But before I go after him, I'll go after his daughter. I never said I play fair. *Book one in the Marino Brothers Duet. Rated 18+ due to explicit language, sex, and violence.*

To the world he was a beast but for her he would do anything. He could have the world but all he wanted was her. They say the things we want most are the things we can't have. For she was so afraid of him that even the thought of him could have her running for the hills. Little did she know that she was the only one who didn't have to be afraid of him. Credits for the cover go to @Chatachino for the amazing cover.

"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.