Velvet Kingdom: A Mafia Romance (Rossi Crime Family Book 1)

My gorgeous-but-terrifying boss, Renzo Rossi, recently caught me taking indecent selfies at the office. It seems I had decided to spice up my crumbling relationship by snapping some steamy pictures, a move that quickly backfired when Renzo walked in to find me completely topless, contorting in the mirror. To my surprise, he wasn't shy about complimenting my pose. Life then took an even worse turn when my boyfriend broke up with me and absconded with all my belongings, leaving me dumped, humiliated, and at rock bottom. I seriously considered joining a nunnery, if such institutions still existed.

However, Renzo had a bombshell in store. It turned out his arranged wife had gone on the run, and he was desperate to find a replacement. He proposed that I marry him and carry his surrogate child, in exchange for the casual sum of five million dollars. As it happens, the Rossi Famiglia is one of the five biggest mafia organizations in Philadelphia, and Renzo needed an heir to maintain his legitimacy. My life couldn't possibly get any worse, or so I thought. Agreeing to this temporary arrangement, I soon found myself unable to keep Renzo out of my bedroom, as his nightly visits turned into two, then three, and so on.

The whole situation was a far cry from the steamy selfies that had started it all. My hot-as-sin boss, a member of a powerful mafia family, had essentially blackmailed me into a marriage and surrogate pregnancy, all while becoming a constant, uninvited presence in my personal life. Yet despite the increasingly complex and compromising nature of our arrangement, I found myself drawn to Renzo, his magnetic presence and dominant personality proving increasingly difficult to resist. As I navigated this treacherous new reality, I couldn't help but wonder where it would all lead, and whether I would emerge from this ordeal with my dignity, or my heart, intact.

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