I've always been our mafia family's best enforcer. Nobody did ruthless like I did, earning me the nickname "The Butcher".
I preferred to keep to the shadows, to remain as anonymous as possible in a world where it was more advantageous if my hit didn't see me coming.
Then I met her.
I found myself inexplicably drawn to Stella. I didn't do relationships—because who would want to hitch themselves to a man who destroyed lives for a living?—but I couldn't stay away from her, either.
But even if my family would let me marry her instead of the mafia princess they'd picked out for me, there was one little problem . . .
If Stella knew who I really was, she'd hate me.
Considering I was the one who'd executed her brother.
