About this audiobook
ADELINE
I thought killing my father would free me.
Instead it destroyed me.
I can’t sleep without seeing his face.
I can’t breathe without hearing his voice telling me I’m rotten—just like him.
And when the nightmares get too loud, I wake up standing in the shooting range with a gun pressed to my head… not knowing how I got there.
I’m unraveling.
Losing pieces of myself.
Breaking in ways I can’t control.
And the only person who keeps dragging me back from the edge
is the man I swore I’d never need.
Angelo shouldn’t be gentle.
He shouldn’t be the one wiping my tears, holding my shaking body, or whispering things that make my heart ache instead of my head.
But here he is—forcing me to live, to fight, to feel.
Even when Lorenzo prowls around me like a temptation I can’t risk.
Even when the world expects me to be the broken girl who caves.
Even when everything in me screams to run.
The truth is simple, terrifying, and lethal:
my heart is breaking… and somehow, he’s the only one holding the pieces.
ANGELO
I was never supposed to fall for her.
Hell, I wasn’t even supposed to care.
But the night I found her with a gun against her skull, shaking, crying, lost in a nightmare she couldn’t wake up from—
something inside me shifted.
Something I can’t undo.
Her father’s ghost is ripping her apart.
Her pain is eating her alive.
And every enemy in this city smells blood in the water.
Lorenzo wants her.
My family doubts her.
The world thinks she’s fragile.
But I see what they don’t:
she’s breaking because she’s fighting alone.
And I will not let her fight alone anymore.
Even if loving her makes me weak.
Even if protecting her makes me disloyal.
Even if choosing her means tearing myself away from the life I was born into.
She thinks she ruined my world.
What she doesn’t know is this:
I’m willing to burn it all for her…
just to hear her heartbeat one more day.
This book is part of the Scars & Bloom Series. Reading order:
Where My Heart Bleeds
Where My Mind Breaks
Where My Soul Blooms
