Regent | Amore e Vendetta # 1 | Mafia Romance | 18+

A child should not have to carry the weight of a war they did not start.
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"I am not my father."

"Well being his legacy means you have to pay his debts."
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Francesca-I'm the boss of the Camorra my family never owned and I never wanted. Eighteen years ago, my father killed the Mancini's-reigning boss and his wife. Five years ago, my parents died, leaving the "family business" to my brother who was seven at the time.

I lead and was to do so until he turned 18. I have spent every day since trying to keep the wolves from tearing him apart while secretly planning our escape. I don't want power. I don't want territory. I don't want the mansion, the soldiers, the fear.

I want out.

And for a moment, I thought fate had handed me my freedom.

The Mancini children came back for their throne.

I was ready to give it to them. Gladly. Gratefully. I would have handed Nicandro Mancini the keys, the accounts, the loyalty oaths-everything.

But there's one problem.

Nicandro doesn't want just the throne.

He wants me to stay.

Now I'm trapped inside a stolen mansion I never asked for, with a man who looks at me like I personally pulled the trigger eighteen years ago.

I didn't start this war.

But I am paying for it.

Nicandro-Eighteen years ago, the Espositos destroyed my life.

They killed my parents in our own home. Turned our name into a cautionary tale. Sent my sister and me back to Italy like unwanted baggage while they claimed what was ours. Eighteen years is a long time to plan revenge. A long time to learn patience. To build allies. To wait.

When I found out Giuseppe Esposito was already dead, it felt like the universe had cheated me.

But debts do not disappear just because the debtor does.

So I returned to New York.

I took back the mansion. The territory. The loyalty.

And if I cannot make the man who pulled the trigger suffer...

Then I will make his bloodline pay.