"I don't believe he deserves the thousands of poems I've written about him, but life doesn't follow rules. We do things for people who don't necessarily deserve it. But we liked it, we loved it and fell in love enough to write about it."
― Dominic Riccitello
"Love is a wild fire that cannot be contained by any mere element known to man."
― Cristina Marrero
"I have never been loved enough to gain the desire of reproducing a being in the image of my lover and I have never been given enough pleasure so that my brain has not had the leisure to seek better...I have wanted the impossible..."
― Rachilde, Monsieur Venus: A Materialist Novel
"Save your skin from the corrosive acids from the mouths of toxic people. Someone who just helped you to speak evil about another person can later help another person to speak evil about you."
― Israelmore Ayivo
*Sequel to Mafia's Woman!*
Ermanno- He'd been naive. He'd fallen for a woman even while knowing the stakes. Even while knowing that love was more dangerous than the jobs he performed. He'd been foolish. And she broke him. He promised he would never let another woman hold power over his heart. Women were too dangerous, and loving them came with loosing a part of yourself. He wouldn't allow that to happen again.
Ansley- She was on the run. Running from her past. Running from a life full of hatred and abuse. Running toward a better future for her and the baby she hadn't birthed yet. She intended to achieve that dream, to give her unborn baby the best life she could and to protect them from all of the things they'd left behind. Only one thing stands in the way of her happily ever after, her husband.
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"Ermanno," I said.
"Yes, Fiore?" His voice was husky and full of promise.
"Will you touch me?" My face was blazing as I posed the question, but I'd never meant something more. I needed to feel him. There was a fire burning inside me that on my he could extinguish. Well, I doubted he could extinguish it. The opposite actually, only make the flames burn hotter.