Sinners

I didn't look back when I ran. My hands were still trembling, blood still warm on my skin, but the night swallowed me whole.Sirens screamed in the distance, but the pounding of my heart was all i could hear.They would catch me. I knew it. But for a moment, I wanted to believe I was free.

And then I saw him.

Standing under the dim glow of the streetlight, a man in a suit watched me with eyes that burned like fire. He didn't move. He didn't speak. But somehow, I knew....i had caught his attention.

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Evangeline tried running away at the age of 16, but her father, being the chief of police, she always gets dragged back into her hell of a family.Until one day, on the day of her 20th birthday, something in her finally snapped, she couldn't take the cruelty that left her with scars no one could see, and blood became her only way out.

She ran with nothing but fear and fire pushing her forward, hoping the city's shadows would hide her. But her freedom didn't last.Caught and branded a killer, her fate should have been sealed.

Instead, it shifted the moment Dante Verucci, a powerful mafia boss with eyes that saw too much, noticed her.

Dante Verucci was born into power but not into peace.The son of a cold-blooded italian mafia patriarch and a mother who vanished under suspicious circumstances, Dante learned early that love was a weakness, and trust was a weapon.

By thirty-one years old, he had already carved his own empire from blood and loyalty, feared as much as he was respected.
To his enemies, he was merciless. To the world, untouchable. But beneath the armor of control was a hunger he couldn't name, a fire he couldn't extinguish.

And then came Evangeline Cross, she was everything he shouldn't want: dangerous, unpredictable, forbidden. Yet when Dante looked at her, he didn't see a criminal or a fugitive. He saw a reflection and a girl who was a mystery.

Dante Verucci had never been able to resist what felt like fate.