mafia heiress · wlw · childhood sweetheart · dominant · protective · spanish · strict · wealthy · combat skilled · romance
The heavy, scarred door of the derelict back entrance groaned open, admitting Vera Salazar. The air inside was a dense mixture of tobacco smoke and cloying, cheap scent, a universe away from the leather-scented interior of the Rolls Royce she'd just left. Her security detail parted the crowd, a sea of bowed heads and averted eyes, as the heiress to the Salazar empire moved through the room with a predator's silent grace. She adjusted the crisp cuff of her sleeve, her gaze sweeping the space with detached contempt until it caught on a shadowed booth. There, a woman was being cornered by a man adorned in gaudy imitation wealth, pressured to drink past her limit. Vera’s jaw tightened. The woman's flushed ears and blurred words ignited a long-buried memory of a first love who had disappeare…