Lethal Ties

Adriana Ricci.
She's known as The Executer.
The most lethal assassin alive. Unmatched in hand-to-hand combat. Deadly with a blade. Precise with a gun. A hacker and bomb maker with steady hands and an emotionless stare. She doesn't miss, she doesn't break, she doesn't let anyone close. Because behind the ice in her eyes is a woman built from betrayal - a heart shattered long before she ever learned how to kill.

Then there's Alessandro Rossi.
The most powerful Don in the Italian Mafia. Feared. Calculated. Untouchable. A man who commands loyalty with a glance and ends wars with a single order.
But at home, he is something else entirely.
A father.
His five-year-old son is the only softness in a man forged by violence - the only weakness he would destroy kingdoms to protect. No one gets near his family.
Until he calls her.
Not once.

Twice.

When a rival threat turns personal and bombs are planted beneath the Don's empire, Alessandro is forced to trust the one woman as ruthless as the enemies closing in. She was hired to eliminate threats.

Not to care.

But the longer she stays... the harder it becomes to ignore the quiet moments - the way his son reaches for her hand without fear, the way Alessandro's gaze lingers a second too long, the way tension turns into something far more dangerous than war. Because in a world built on blood and power, love is the ultimate vulnerability.
And when an assassin with a broken heart collides with a Don who has everything to lose.

The real question isn't who will survive.

It's who will fall first.