Bound by Blood

People say love can heal anything.

They've never met the mafia.

For over thirty years, two criminal empires ruled the underworld. The De Luca family controlled the East Coast, while the Richard family ruled everything from Europe to the West. They weren't just rivals-they were enemies whose hatred had been written in blood.

Every truce ended in betrayal.

Every meeting ended with someone dead.

Children grew up learning one rule before they could even read:

Never trust the other family.

Especially not their heir.

Nineteen-year-old Luca had spent his entire life preparing to inherit his father's empire. Ruthless. Intelligent. Feared. He never questioned the war because it was all he'd ever known.

Across the city, Nikolai Volkov carried the same burden. Calm, calculating, and impossible to intimidate, he was raised to believe the De Lucas destroyed everything they touched.

Neither expected their first meeting to happen at gunpoint.

Neither expected the person standing on the other side to hesitate before pulling the trigger.

And neither expected that hesitation to change everything.

One stolen conversation became secret meetings.

Secret meetings became stolen touches.

Stolen touches became a love that could destroy both empires.

If their fathers discovered the truth, they wouldn't just forbid the relationship.

They would start a war that no one would survive.

Because in the mafia...

Betrayal is unforgivable.

And falling in love with your enemy is the greatest betrayal of all.