,,You don't want to get involved with me." she said quietly as he removed the thin strap of her dress from her bare shoulder.
,,Why do you say that?" he asked and kissed the same shoulder, gently.
,,I'm not a good woman, Thomas." she closed her eyes and raised her head enjoying the light kiss.
,,I wouldn't exactly say that I'm a good man." he spoke and proceeded to remove the strap from her other shoulder.
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A college student with a dark past, Martha never thought that the power of attraction could be so strong until her eyes layed on Thomas, a dark, older and mysterious man whose dominance challenges her just the right amount.
Both broken and poorly and wrongly repaired, both grew up in the dark and now live in it and both decisive of what they want and that's each other will end up on a path which is under constant threats of the secrets that haunt them.
Fairytale is far from what their story is. Realistic relationship not hiding the ugliness of hard lives and a man and a woman with unexplicable personal demons who may be too similar to each other for the story to work out. So, can love really overcome all obstacles if sometimes the love itself creates them?
,,She was the rum, he was the fire. We all know what happens when alcohol burns."
TW: This story contains sexual content, abuse mentions, substance use, mature language and age difference. If you are not comfortable with that please do not read.
Mafia Romance
Book 1 of "The Veiled Desires" Series
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𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐲 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫?
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They say to fear the devil. They say to pray to god in hopes of keeping the devil away. But they don't know that the devil can hear their prayers too.
They say there is only good and bad. They say there is both a devil and a god. But what happens when only the devil, two negatives of the same kind become one? Not knowing that the other is also a devil?
She has a high pitched voice everyday.
𝑇𝑜 ℎ𝑖𝑑𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑟𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑎𝑡 𝑛𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡.
He wears suits.
𝑇𝑜 ℎ𝑖𝑑𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑑.
She's famous to the world because of her dad.
𝑆ℎ𝑒'𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑘𝑛𝑖𝑓𝑒.
He is the most ruthless.
𝑂𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙 𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑟
She never opens her heart.
𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒
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𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐰?
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18+, read trigger warnings.
Tropes :
Dark Romance
Arranged Marriage
Enemies to Lovers to Enemies to Lovers