27 parts Ongoing Mature𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒: 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝐎𝐍𝐄
❝𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲'𝐫𝐞 𝐤𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧. 𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐲, 𝐦𝐲 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞❞
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𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐍𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚: She never got past the death of her mother and why they'd kill her. She had hatred towards the people who did. But she also was one to not follow rules, until that got her in trouble she didn't even know she asked for.
𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐨 𝐃'𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥𝐨: Broken from a lot of things he's heard or seen or has happened. Broken from his past love. He was hurt and for that reason he didn't care for anyone. He become distant and closed off thinking no one deserved his love. He was caught in the mix of all these problems for a girl he thought he had no emotion towards.
When Valentina was set to kill Italy's infamous mafia don, she thought she'd get let off easy. He took her in the palm of his hand and wanted to crush her, break her. He was close in doing so, so why didn't he? The world revolving around them made them sense that they were desperate for each other but problems were yet to come. Problems are fixable by the ones he was about to start wasn't. Feeling grew but unsuspected hurt came along the way, lies spread like wild fire and had stopped from getting to her. But when he kept the secret so long he broke, spilling every ounce of lie hurting. That's when they fell.
The lies hurt them both just because they fell for each other. Mariano is hurt and Valentina is stubborn, will these to let their problems get in the way of their love or let thefire burn it all?
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