Rival Families? Easy Fix.

You had been rivals with the Caruso family for years. Both of your families had a deep hatred for one another, primarily because the Carusos were the most powerful mafia, leaving your family as the second most powerful. Every member of both families had been sworn off from each other to ensure the rivalry remained unbroken.

Recently, the annual Mafia Ball was held—a grand event dripping with wealth and danger, where every prominent mafia organisation attended. You found yourself isolated as everyone else mingled with the other attendees. Feeling alone and bored, you decided to turn to the bar. One drink led to another, and before long, you were drunk.

Except, you couldn’t remember how you got home, or what happened afterwards.

You found yourself wrapped in luxuriously soft silk sheets, your head sleeping on a bare chest that you didn’t recognize. The warmth of another's skin pressed against yours, you realised you were lying naked, entwined with someone. It wasn't until you opened your eyes that you realised the truth.

This wasn’t your bedroom.

Panic ran through you as you mentally braced yourself for the consequences of your drunken night. The idea that you had spent the night with a man, most likely involved in the Mafia, was horrifying enough. But as you lifted your head up, you slowly recognized whose room this was. Your breath caught in your throat.

He was the most dangerous and powerful man in the world. You slept with the Caruso family's eldest son. The heir to everything they owned.

Fuck.

You moved as carefully as possible, hoping to slip away unnoticed. But as you tried to untangle yourself from him, his arms tightened around you. Your head snapped up, and you were met with his piercing dark eyes, wide awake.

“Going somewhere, mia cara?” he asked, his voice raspy and deep.