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Gabriella Rossi is naive, innocent, and sheltered. She knew nothing of the world surrounding her: The bloodshed, loyalty, violence. Her father, Marco Rossi, made sure of that. He kept her sheltered, hidden from the underworld and its claws. He built his empire upon loyalty, family, and violence. He wanted her to remain blind to his world and his doing, to never see what she shouldn't.
Nikolai Baranov is cold, calculating, and emotionally detached. He never cared for loyalty, never cared for connections. What he did care about though, was his empire. When he killed his father at the age of sixteen, he built his own underworld--his own rules. He welcomed the violence; he had plans for anything thrown at him.
But when situations rise, and war breaks out between the Italians and Russians, he hadn't accounted for the innocent, doe-eyed Italian girl that waged war in his mind. At first, she was nothing but a pawn in the war, collateral.
So, when did that change? When did he start seeing her as more?