Scarred

AVA
The first time Luca Romano looked at me, I forgot how to breathe.
For years, he was simply the man I admired from a distance. Untouchable. Unreadable. A Don whose silence spoke louder than most men ever could.
Then my world begins to unravel.
Strange gifts. Familiar faces where they shouldn’t be. The unsettling feeling that someone is always one step behind me.
When old alliances tighten and dangerous ones begin to fracture, Luca insists I’m safer under his roof.
The longer I spend in his world, the harder it becomes to tell the difference between protection… and possession.
Because whatever is watching from the shadows isn’t ready to let me go.

LUCA
Power demands sacrifice.
I’ve spent years making impossible decisions without hesitation. My family comes first. Always.Then Ava Giovanni walks into my life, and for the first time, my control begins to slip.
She was never meant to become my responsibility.
Yet every unanswered question leads back to her.
Every warning arrives too late.
Every instinct tells me someone is waiting for me to make one fatal mistake.
And they’ll have to kill me before I let that mistake be her.