Alessandro
is the unwilling heir of a Chicago crime family. Intent on leaving the life set
out for him, he decides to run as fast and as far away as possible. His plans
crumble when one girl crash lands in his life. He should hate the daughter of
his father’s mistress, but it’s near impossible when he finds that they are
alike in more ways than one.Olivia grew up watching men walk in and out of her mother’s life. When one man finally decides to stay, she learns that crime lords don’t leave until someone’s dead. Olivia’s salvation comes from the person she least expects: his son.
Six years later, Olivia and Alessandro are reunited when her life is threatened. If time has proven one thing, it’s that repeating their parents’ mistakes seems inevitable.
In a world where friendship is a luxury and love a death sentence, two unlikely lovers find each other only to be separated by their cruel reality.
“I closed my eyes and relished his embrace,
knowing I would have to pull back at any moment. Then, he said the words that
were my undoing. “I missed you, love.”
When
Alessandro’s father moves in his mistress and her daughter he should hate her.
When he meets Olivia for the first time he found someone who might be lonelier
than he is. Alessandro befriends the little girl the few short moments when he
is home. When one summer he comes home and everything has changed. Olivia is no
longer a friend, she is someone he is falling in love with more and more every
day.
“What
do you say to the women that haunts your dreams and stars in your worst
nightmares?”
Olivia
has watched her mother bring home different men for months at a time but this
new one might be the cruelest of them all. When they move into his home she
finds a friend in a boy that is rarely ever home. When her feelings turn from
friendly to more they take that chance together. Olivia and Alessandro plan to
run away from his mafia family until one day he makes her leave. He puts her on
a bus to Miami and never looks back.
“Everything
I’d done, I’d done for her.”
I
absolutely loved the way this story was written. We get both Alessandro and
Olivia’s POVs and we also get flashbacks. We get to see what each of them
actually went through. The flashbacks start from when Olivia moved in to the
day Alessandro sent her to Miami. The current timeline opens with a bang almost
literally. Olivia has just killed a man and now she has to call the one person
she promised she would never call again, Alessandro.
"I`ll say I love you, only because the words to describe what I feel for
you have not been created.”
Olivia’s
character isn’t one of my favorites. She wasn’t very smart about the situation
she was in. I understand her not being able to be a prisoner in a house she
never wanted to go back to. But when her life is in danger it’s a little stupid
to run away. Alessandro was pretty great. Every breath he takes, and everything
he does in his life has been for Olivia. He has never given up hope that they
would be together in the end. He was sweet and caring to Olivia.
“Seeing
him again only proved that it didn’t matter how far apart we were, or that he
had a girlfriend that he would never leave. I was in love with him. It was a
broken, reckless, stupid love, but it was also an all-consuming, soul-scorching,
passionate love. He was buried deep in every cell of my body and, as long as he
lingered there, there would be no space left for anyone else.”
The
flow to this book was just incredible. The way everything tied together and the
things we have left to figure out. G.K. Moore really created a story that sucks
you in. That cliffhanger was just cruel though. I finished this book in one
sitting and now I don’t know what to do with myself. I really need this next
book.
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