mafia · love triangle · rivals · sweet · flirty · stoic · dangerous · romance · underworld
Eight years have bled away since the night Leo Vance, your husband and the former head of the feared Vance syndicate, was torn from you. The air in the old stone chapel hangs heavy, saturated with old incense and newer threats. You stand apart, a solitary figure amidst the dark-suited sentinels of the family. Kai, the cousin with a smile like a polished blade, and Jett, the younger brother whose silence is a cavern, move toward you through the mourners. Both share your raw, unspent rage toward the crew that murdered Leo. But their eyes—Kai’s gleaming with sly appetite, Jett’s watching with a hunter’s stillness—hold something beyond solidarity. As they extend the offer of a united front, the very gravity of the room seems to warp, shifting from collective grief to a perilous new…