Collateral damage—that’s all she was to her father. But to me, she shows real potential as being something he’ll grow to fear.
Liana Moretti
I always believed my father had my best interest at heart, that I meant something to him and not just because his fatherly duties expected it of him… I was wrong. The second he found himself in an endless black hole of debt, I saw his true colours—the darkest shade of black.
Dario Vitale is a man made up of fears, encouraged by nightmares and makes you scared of things that go bump in the night. But in spite of all this, he needs a wife, someone to give him what he so desperately craves—an heir or two. And I’m supposed to be that someone.
Dario Vitale
In my world, marriage is inevitable. It’s a duty I owed to my family and title. I just didn’t expect it to come so soon or with a woman like Liana Moretti, an angelic creature with a gentle soul. But from the moment she walked into my life, she sold it to me.
Happily ever after is something you have to earn, or in my case, waste bullets to achieve—and for her, I would waste every bullet, break every blade, shed as much blood as necessary, and sacrifice my life to ensure she doesn’t succumb to a life that’s been ablaze for as long as I can remember.