Page 104 of Fake Dark Vows
“Six p.m. Don’t be late.”
“I won’t…” She chews her bottom lip like she knows something is going on but hasn’t quite figured out what it is. “I have a little surprise for you before you go.”
Her entire face lights up and fans something inside me that I can’t act upon in the office. “A surprise?”
“Uh-huh.” I cross the room, open the door, and give Julia the nod. She follows me back inside holding a brown cocker spaniel puppy in her arms, complete with a pink bow around her neck.
I’ve never seen Rose’s eyes grow so huge. “Is she for me?” she squeals, taking the puppy from Julia’s arms. The puppy licks her face, and for the next few minutes, I don’t even exist, as puppy and human get acquainted with kisses and hugs.
“Oh, Brandon, thank you! She’s beautiful. Can I take her home?”
“I’ll get the car brought around to the entrance.”
“We’ll have to think of a name for you,” she murmurs against the puppy’s face as she heads to the door. “Something pretty, like Velvet or Satin or Diamond. What do you think, huh?”
I wink at Julia and clear my throat. “Aren’t you forgetting something?”
She hesitates, her fingers already on the door handle, and turns around to face me, smiling. “Sorry. I love you.”
“I love you too, Rose.” I sit back down at my desk, open my lunch, and inhale the aroma of homemade cooking.
Everything I could ever want…
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Mafia King’s Secret Baby
Elio Rossi and Caterina De Luca’s Story
Chapter 1
Caterina
“It’s not a death sentence, Caterina. It’s a wedding.”
I grit my teeth. My brother Marco, six years older than me and my self-appointed life ruiner, is sitting behind his huge desk with his hands folded like he’s some kind of supervillain.
To be fair.
He kind of is.
At least, he is to me right now.
“Marco,” I say slowly, my breath hissing through my teeth. “It’s not just a wedding. You know full well that the Rossi family murdered our parents. Do you really think that history isn’t going to repeat itself, especially given the circumstances?”
The circumstances, of course, are too similar to ignore. It was six years ago that our parents died in a tragic accident on the way back from an engagement party.
My engagement party.
To the same man that Marco is asking me to marry again.
He huffs out a breath and steeples his fingers, and I resist the urge to roll my eyes. “Caterina, this is the only way. I can’t keep the business afloat without the contracts that the Rossi’s bring in. and if we can’t keep the business afloat, we can’t?—”
“—Find out what happened to mom and dad,” I interrupt him. “I know, Marco.”
We stare at each other across the desk.