Burn Me Softly
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Some flames burn quietly... until they don't.
Aurora Bellini is the picture of innocence.
Quiet. Kind. A law student with a soft heart and a tragic past. When a violent attack threatens her safety, she's placed under the protection of the Vitti family - Italy's most feared crime syndicate. More specifically, under the cold, watchful eye of their heir: Angelo Vitti.
Angelo doesn't want her there.
Too sweet. Too soft. Too breakable. But there's something about her that unsettles him. Her gentle smile, her quiet strength - it seeps past the walls he's spent years building. He tells himself she doesn't belong in his world. He tells himself to stay away.
But he watches her anyway. Protects her anyway.
And slowly, against his better judgment - he starts to burn for her.
With war simmering between the Italian and Russian mafias, every secret is dangerous.
Every glance, every touch, every whisper in the dark... it all matters.
Because nothing is ever what it seems.
And sometimes the softest things burn the most.
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