Until She Was Mine

Ariella Rossi was born into silence.

Controlled by her father's violence and fear, she's spent her life learning how to stay small-how not to speak, not to feel, not to fight back. So when he trades her away like property to the infamous Angelo Moretti-mafia don, killer, king of cruelty-she doesn't scream. She just obeys.

But inside the mansion where she's forbidden to leave, the silence begins to shift.

Angelo is everything she feared-sharp-tongued, cold, terrifying. But he's also the first person who doesn't lay a hand on her. The first man who listens when she whispers. The first to hold her when she breaks.

And she does break-over and over again, until the girl who entered his world as a pawn starts to change. Starts to feel. Starts to crave.

Angelo never wanted a wife. Especially not one like her.

Too soft. Too young. Too easy to hurt.

But the more she pulls away, the more he's drawn to the quiet girl who flinches when he raises his voice and still finds the strength to look him in the eye. And when someone threatens what's his, he'll bury the whole world in blood to protect her.

Because love was never the plan.

But neither was needing her to breathe.