DARCY

I’ve spent my life bound to a one I’ve hated for as long as I can remember...deep in the ugliness of the underworld, serving one of London’s most ruthless mobsters. I wish I could say my life is filled with riches from blood money, but it isn’t, and it only gets worse when the Casella brothers find me and tether my life to one of theirs.

Nicholas Casella, the arrogant, self-righteous playboy.

Now I must fight with all I have for any chance at freedom, before it’s too late.

Before he kills me.

 

NICHOLAS

Secrets.

We live with so many damn secrets.

I wish I were one of them. I wish I could crawl into the abyss and never emerge again. The promise of a future with someone I don’t love, let alone an enemy, is enough to claw me back into insatiable habits and into the resounding pain I’ve tried so hard to muffle over the many years.

I despise everything about her and as long as her life is tied to mine, I will make her suffer for the things her family has done. I won’t stop, until she’s begging on her knees for my mercy. Even then, I don’t plan to give it to her.

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