Cults suck. That has to be the first life lesson that Rose, a twenty-four-year-old artist, learned. He learned this through his first eighteen years spent locked in a psycho's basement, wearing a robe and speaking in tongues like Hitchcock started directing his life. He got out, though. And the second life lesson that Rose learned was how to stay out, no matter how much he lost or how much pain it took. He'd admit, being on the run was...lonely.
Fate sucks. That was the eighth or ninth life lesson that Alec, a twenty-four-year-old musician, learned. He learned it when he was about fifteen, the day he lied in bed, watching Johnny Depp movies for the fortieth time in his standard, southern American home, realizing that he had no attraction to girls yet every want to screw Wade Walker until he tasted blood. The same day, he realized that if he told anyone, his life of popularity and JV football would end.
The one thing that the two had in common was, well, nothing. Alec, tightly locked away in his closet, fell for Rose after he arrived in the middle of nowhere, even though Rose made it very clear that his life wasn't something worth getting wrapped up in. His life, after all, had quite the body count. But Alec didn't care.
Whoops.
"It was supposed to be a game, I was supposed to break you, destroy you and send you back. I wasn't supposed to love you. God, I wasn't supposed to love you this much."
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Santiago built his mafia to his perfection. It's deadly, ruthless, unforgiving and harsh.
To everyone on the outside.
The residents of Santiago's estate have two sides, ones that outsiders see and one that the families know. They're unlike any other mafia, compassion and kindness flood into the house, and they are perfectly content they way others see them. When Illianna Edwards is found lurking around the territory and gets kidnapped, she witnesses both sides of the mafia and is astonished. She came from the enemy estate that had nothing even close to love and kindness, she was shocked at how friendly everyone was. It made her suspicious. Santiago wanted everything concerning the Edwards gone, and when one came falling into his lap he couldn't pass up the chance to obliterate the Edwards once and for all, especially since Illianna is a fighting spirit and isn't easily broken. The plan was to make her fall for him, break her heart and send her back scared, striking fear into the Edwards estate, but things never really go as plan.
(The Spanish in this book might be incorrect. Everything was google translated.)