"You're obsessed with me. Everything I give you, you devour like a hungry man."
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After the murder of her older brother, Fiorella Barone is forced to return to her hometown to fight and earn her place as the heiress of the Barone mafia.
Worried about her, her father assigns Victor Stoll -his best mercenary, a ruthless man who knows how to kill, not how to protect- as her bodyguard. The arguments between the two are soon overshadowed by the obvious attraction, but there's a problem: Victor can't get involved with his boss's daughter, so he just plays with her.
When the passion becomes too much to hide, will Victor finally accept his feelings for Fiorella or will he let his devotion to the mafia tear them apart?
Isabella is desperate for her own independence, but her overprotective father stands in the way of her future. When she demands that she attends a University two hundred miles away from her home, her father only has one exception; a bodyguard.
Elio is dedicated to his career to honour his late sister, but when he owes a favour to an ex-mafia boss, he takes body-guarding to a completely new level.
Isabella is reckless and likes to push her bodyguards limits.
Elio has zero patience and a desire to punish his client.
When things start to get heated and unexpected feelings get in the way, their forbidden relationship becomes a distraction when Isabella's life is on the line. Elio is desperate to not let down another important woman in his life.
But he can't save everyone, including his own bleeding heart.
Tropes:
- Mafia Romance
- Bodyguard
- Age-gap (8 years - FMC is 21 and MMC is 29)
- Forbidden Love
- Brat FMC/Grumpy MMC
- Light BDSM (sub/dom vibes)
- Size difference (5'4 & 6'6)
- University/College Setting
- Past Trauma/Healing
- ANGST (so much of it)