I've always known the rules.
My father's world doesn't forgive cracks in loyalty, especially not the kind that start with a glance from his most trusted shadow.
The man who's pulled triggers for him since I was a kid, all gravel voice and unblinking eyes, the one who vanishes into New York's rain-slicked alleys like smoke.
I told myself I'd never crave that danger.
Liar.
Those midnight stakeouts in fogged vans, dashboard lights carving his jaw sharp while we wait for blood to spill.
His hand brushes mine pretending it's accident, but it's the spark that ignites everything forbidden.
I'm the boss's daughter, raised on vendettas and vaulted secrets, starving for someone to shatter my defiance.
He sees it.
The reckless hunger I hide behind sarcasm, the way I ache to kneel for the ruin only he promises.
And god, when he finally snaps, pinning me against shadowed walls that echo our history, it's possession that devours.
Sweat on skin in the stunned hush after, bodies pressed like we own the wreckage.
Every stolen ravaging defies the age between us, the brotherhood he swore to my father.
I need his ruthless guard, the salvation from my isolation no one else offers.
But one whisper of this, and Dad's trust crumbles.
My life becomes the next target in the crosshairs.
Self-control?
Already in shards.
What terrifies me most isn't the chaos we'll unleash.
It's how safe I feel unraveling in his grip, wondering if we'll burn it all down before he claims what's left of me.
A full-length age gap dark mafia dad's best friend erotic romance featuring a defiant mafia princess and her father's ruthless enforcer.
