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The Kingpin's Empire
A Corrupt Cop, Unreliable Narrator Mafia RomanceBy Nadia Vance
Length8h 32m
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They do not even let her father finish his coffee.
Alessandra hears the front door come off its hinges, and by the time she reaches the kitchen there are two men standing in it and her father is looking up at them with an expression she has never seen on him. Not fear. Acceptance. *"Non in casa,"* he says. Not in front of the house. Not in front of her.
His gun is on the counter. The one from the bread box, the one he taught her to clean when she was twelve. She catches the second shooter in the side of the neck as he steps into the alley.
Three nights later her father's rosary is still sitting where she put it on the windowsill, and two cars pull up outside with their doors shut soft instead of slammed.
Alessandra slides a Beretta out of a hollowed-out copy of L'Inferno, tucks it between the throw pillows on the couch, sits down with her hands flat on her thighs, and runs through her speech one more time. The apartment is my mother's. You can't take it. I can give you five hundred a month.
Enzo Caruso arrives with rain on his shoulders, two men in the hallway, a silver flask and two small glasses. He sits at her kitchen table and gives her a number. *"Your father owed me three million dollars."* The apartment appraises at four-fifty on a good day. Her mother has been dead seven years, so there is no legal fiction left for her to stand behind.
Then he tells her what he has actually come for. Not a payment plan. The Russo family has been pushing into his territory for six months, hit one of his warehouses last week and killed two of his men, and Alessandro Russo wants a war that Enzo says he does not want. What he needs is a name with weight in it, and the Fabbri name still carries some.
*"I want to marry you."*
When she refuses, he recites her brother back to her instead. Luca Fabbri, fifteen years old, South Bronx Soccer Academy, asthma, walks home alone because he does not want her to worry.
A dark mafia romance about an inherited debt, a marriage that begins as a transaction, and a woman who has already demonstrated once what she is willing to do to people who come for her family. The romance has explicit scenes.
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GenreRomance
Length8 hrs 32 mins
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LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Prologue
3Chapter 1 - The Gun I Never Dropped
4Chapter 2 - Monsters Wear Tailored Suits
5Chapter 3 - The Price of Breathing
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6Chapter 4 - The Ring Like a Chain
7Chapter 5 - The First Night Wound
8Chapter 6 - A Normal Boy and a Wolf’s Den
9Chapter 7 - The Blood on His Hands
10Chapter 8 - Soft Hands Break Hard Men
11Chapter 9 - The Ink That Binds
12Chapter 10 - The Flowers She Didn’t Ask For
13Chapter 11 - The Cracks in the Throne
14Chapter 12 - The Lie She Told Herself
15Chapter 13 - The Trap Springs Open
16Chapter 14 - The Enemy Inside the House
17Chapter 15 - The Day That Wasn’t Mine
18Chapter 16 - The Boy Who Saw Too Much
19Chapter 17 - The Vow That Changes Everything
20Chapter 18 - The Snake’s New Skin
21Chapter 19 - The Court of Wolves
22Chapter 20 - The Cost of Being a Partner
23Chapter 21 - The Wound That Doesn’t Bleed
24Chapter 22 - The Feast of the Dead
25Chapter 23 - The Saint Who Carried a Gun
26Chapter 24 - The Throat and the Blade
27Chapter 25 - The Empire of Ashes
28Chapter 26 - The Dress That Costs a Kingdom
29Chapter 27 - The Last Vow Before the War
30Chapter 28 - The Bride Who Walked Through Fire
31Chapter 29 - The Crown of Thorns
32Chapter 30 - The Boy Who Broke the Wheel
33Chapter 31 - The King Who Lost His Empire and Found His Home
34About the Author
35The End
36About the Author
37Also by Nadia Vance
38Acknowledgements
39A Note from the Author
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