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Jovanni

Jovanni's Book(1)

We Were Written in Blood

We Were Written in Blood

Mafia
5.0
Revenge was never supposed to feel this right. State prosecutor Eve Bennett has spent years believing in the law, but when it fails her, she's forced to seek her own justice. Her latest case-prosecuting Luis Ortega, a brutal enforcer for El Reino Oscuro-was meant to be a step toward avenging the murder of her husband-a cop who had died a few years earlier under mysterious circumstances after getting too close to exposing the mafia. It exposes the truth: the law was never designed to protect people like her, it was built to serve the powerful. When Eve becomes a target, the warning is clear: drop the case, or die, but instead of backing down, she's thrust into a war between El Reino Oscuro and their rivals, Lex Ultima. Captured by Lex Ultima's leader, Mateo DeLuca, a man as dangerous as he is calculating, Eve is offered a choice-work with me to destroy El Reino Oscuro, or try to fight from within the corrupt system, like her husband had done. She despises the idea. Neither trust the other, she sees all gang members as the same irredeemable scum, she plots to take them all down. And he sees her as a naive wishful woman who's only useful for the time being... But as they fight side by side, hatred turns into something else-something raw and undeniable. A kiss born from anger, a night spent in vulnerability, moments of silence where neither can look away. Intimacy and denial govern their relationship. Mateo cares for her but sees the darkness growing in Eve, the hunger for vengeance that mirrors his own, a road he had walked. One with no destination. Antonio "El Gusano" Costa, the psychopathic leader of El Reino Oscuro, poses a constant threat. He knows Mateo better than anyone, once calling him brother before betrayal split them apart. Now, he wants them dead. He'd kill anyone to who dares to interven in his affairs. As the lines blur between justice and vengeance, loyalty and survival, Eve must decide: how much of herself is she willing to sacrifice to get her revenge? And when the blood is spilled, would that be enough? In a world filled with hate, cycle of death, self proclaimed villains who believe they are a necessary evil, and deep-rooted corruption, our characters are forced to realize that there are no heroes, only those written in blood.