48 HOURS

“I only want forty-eight hours.” His smoky gaze held mine, dark and unrelenting.
“And after that?”
His thumb traced my lower lip.
“After that, you can go back to pretending you were ever his.”

Eleven years ago, Cesare Falcone disappeared without a goodbye.

He left Sofia broken.

Now he has returned as the Ghost—a ruthless mafia king feared by everyone in the city. Older. Colder. More powerful. And determined to reclaim the only woman he has never been able to forget.

But Sofia no longer belongs to him.
To protect her son and what remains of her shattered family, she has agreed to marry another powerful man. Her new husband promises safety, wealth, and stability.

Cesare promises none of those things.
He only offers obsession.

Forty-eight hours alone with him. Two days to surrender to everything they buried. Two days to prove that eleven years, another man’s ring, and one dangerous secret were never enough to destroy what existed between them.
Sofia tells herself she needs closure.

Cesare has never wanted closure.
He wants possession.

And when the past begins to surface, Sofia finds herself trapped between a husband who demands obedience and a former lover prepared to burn the entire city to reclaim what he believes has always been his.
Some loves save you.
Theirs was born to destroy them.