Amore

"It is not love that defines us, Julietta. It is love that destroys us." I'm just a normal girl. Or so you would think. I've never thought of myself as anything different. Until I met him. Rafael Lencioni doesn't think I'm normal. He thinks I'm special. Special enough to be in his life. Special enough to enter his world. Special enough for his bed. My story is the one that's never told. I'm not the daughter. I'm not the wife. I'm not a sister or a mother. I'm not his enemy and I'm not his friend. I'm not who you think I am. So for me to fit into their world, I have to do something I never wanted in my life. Something I would have frowned upon until I met him. I have to change who I am. I have to shut down my heart. I have to accept my place. My body belongs to him. My heart isn't permitted to. Those are his rules. But rules were made to be broken . . . right? Contains mature themes.

Run. He told me to run. So I ran. It turns out just because you run from something, doesn't mean it can't find you. He's coming for me. He wants what I hold closest. He wants to lie, manipulate, and use me. He wants me to betray him. Rafael. Leader of the Italian Mafia. Love of my life. Father of my child. He's going to make me do the unthinkable. There is no way out. I'm trapped and about to make the biggest mistake of my life. I'm running full throttle towards an oncoming train, and there isn't a single thing I can do to stop it. I'm going to become what I was most afraid of-a monster. Contains mature themes.