Summary
"Alessio leaned closer and I felt his breath on my lips. I closed my eyes, waiting for him to kiss me as he brushed his lips against mine.
Only he never did.
Flustered, I opened my eyes and looked at him, still unsure what to do. What was holding him back?
He leaned in again, but this time he pressed his lips against mine and didn’t hold back. He traced my lips with his tongue, and I opened my mouth to let him in.
Kissing him felt so good.
It was perfect, as if nothing else mattered.
It felt so good that it terrified me, to the point where I had to pull away when it finally hit me what I was doing."
When Jimena, a young single mother with a dark past and a violent ex she's desperate to forget, crosses paths with Alessio, heir to the Fanucci family, her world is turned upside down.
All she wanted was to get by working as a maid at the Fanucci mansion and to keep her distance from the three infamous Fanucci brothers as much as possible.
Things take a turn when the oldest brother and heir, Alessio, breaks off his arranged engagement with his ex and urgently needs a new one. Alessio, cold, ruthless, dominant, and not someone anyone talks back to, sees the quiet Jimena as nothing more than his pawn. Meanwhile, she sees Alessio as nothing more than another monster she needs to escape. As they spend more time together, the lines between fake and reality begin to blur, and they discover they have more in common than they initially thought.
Tensions rise when Jimena's ex returns, threatening her new comfortable life and the secrets she’s been withholding. He is out for revenge and is determined to go to any length for it, even if that means forming an alliance with the Fanuccis' enemy, who happens to be the family of Alessio’s ex.
With a war, untold truths, and feelings at stake, will Jimena’s newly formed bonds keep standing, or will everything around her crumble?
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