The Mafia King's Secret Heiress

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me into your world? Into your h

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remind you that I didn't even know who I was unt

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ld fell

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e Luca family. And now... she worked

des. "Why didn't you tell

the world," he said, stepping closer. "And be

r now, almost human

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ding at the head of a long table,

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tood in the shadows, watching

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me step into your world lik

ld the moment you saved my l

ning behind her eyes. "Do yo

understand something. If I hadn't found you first, someone else would

So you brought me clos

closer. "You're not just the daugh

ssive, intense, undeniab

on't o

w, "but I want you. And

lies, the legacy, the blood between them-her body still craved hi

wasn't t

said, her voice bar

d once.

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a: "Who

your father's. Meet me

te coastal chapel, twent

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for a walk along the coast, as instructed. She did

secrets, she'd di

abandoned, covered in ivy and cracked stone. Inside,

with a scar down one cheek

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just in tra

he game. He wanted out of the Mafia. He found out the De

why they k

sage. But he didn't know you were in the car

th hitched. "He

ived. And now? You're in

hat-what do you want me

slowly. "I want yo

e Villa –

ad of the table, dressed in black, his fingers wrapped around a glass of win

d you go?

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her voice ice. "I'm

flinch. But the storm b

gerous between them now

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