Behind every smile there's pain
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  • Reads 16
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  • Parts 3
  • Time 11m
Ongoing, First published Nov 25, 2020
Mature
Charlie is a girl who is forced to raise her sisters after her fathers death because her mother turned to drugs and alcohol after the she remarried her stepfather named Steve who is a cruel and evil man to wards her and her sisters. She does everything to protect her sisters from their mother and Steve.  She is has to take her sisters with her everywhere because she is scared of what her mother and Steve would do to them, so this leads her to taking them to school and work with her and everyone thinks that she is their mother which makes her began to claim her sisters as her daughters. But only her best friends know the truth. 

She begins to get fed up with her mother and Steve so she decides she will take her sisters and they will live far from their mother and Steve. But what happens when they are on their journey to a better life and they run into Luciano Romano during a brutal mafia war and he is forced to take them to his home because she's seen to much.

Luciano is the cold, ruthless, heartless, leader of the most feared Italian American mafia in all America. He's never loved anyone with the exceptions of his three friends, his brothers, mother, and his father. He treats women like their objects nothing more than for his on pleasure and desires. What happens when he takes Charlie and her daughters. What will happen when she opens up about their life before. Will he stay as cold as before or sweet and loving toward them. Find out will they fall in love or will they hate each other.
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