Games We Play - Round 1: Never Have I Ever (18+ dark mafia romance)

Series Summary:
The heirs of two rival mafia families unwillingly fall in love as they navigate the cruel reality of their destinies.

Round 1 Summary:
Everybody knows Matteo Giudice is the first son of a billionaire who is probably, but not surely, the head of the Sicilian mafia. Everything he does seems to be for his own pleasure, there's a certain darkness to him that seems to follow him everywhere he goes. Burnt-out from a young age due to his generational wealth, being bored is his biggest problem in life.
Valentina is the daughter of a successful Russian businessman and has always flown under the radar at school but now seems to be everywhere and nowhere at the same time. There's something a bout her, as if she has something nobody else possesses, that stirs up Matteo's interest in the first place.
When Matteo met Valentina during a summer in Italy back in 2019, neither of them knew their destinies had been intertwined for decades. When buried secrets start coming out, their lives turn into a deadly game of power, in which love and war have no choice but to co-exist.
The game of power is won by those brave enough to play it

A slow-burn coming of age mafia dark romance series, in which the heirs of two rival mafia families unwillingly fall in love as they come to terms with their cruel fates.

Warnings Round 1: drug use, murder, gun use, sexual content, criminal activities, morally grey characters, violence, psychological abuse
Tags Round1: slow burn, strangers to friends to lovers, coming of age, mafia rivals, mafia heirs

Warnings series (so far): drug use, murder, gun use, sexual content, criminal activities, morally grey characters, violence, psychological abuse, gore, PTSD
Tags series (so far): slow burn, strangers to friends to lovers to enemies to lovers, coming of age, mafia rivals, mafia heirs, billionaire