Stay

Vincenzo Matteo Ferrara. The name still makes my heart race, even after all these years.

Once, he was my world-the reckless, dangerous boy who was both my greatest love and my deepest pain. We were always in each other's orbit-him, the charming, untouchable bad boy, and me, the girl who would have followed him anywhere, until that one night shattered everything. It wasn't supposed to end like this, not with him breaking me into pieces and walking away.

Now, five years later, our worlds collide again-by accident, or maybe fate. He's no longer that boy; he's a powerful, arrogant CEO, the kind of man who gets what he wants without asking. And I? I'm not the naive girl I once was. I'm smart, independent, but when he looks at me with those dark eyes, that old fire flares back to life.

He says he's changed. But I know better. And so does he.
But this time, I won't run from him. I can't.