ALL YOUR LIES

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Alexa</strong></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I'm not ready.</em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As my father steps aside as capo for our family it is me who will be stepping</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>up and taking over. Becoming the first female capo is being met with its fair</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>share of opposition but that's the least of my worries.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Now I have a stalker who sparks the same oddly familiar feelings in me as a</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>certain imprisoned individual who used to be my safe place. When the truth</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>of his identity shifts my entire world I must come to terms with the way this</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>life is.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I don't know if I can forgive him... or if I even want to.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Gage</strong></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I've been watching her.</em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Since I was released from prison I've been creating a life she'd be happy</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>and safe in. I just have to convince her that it's me she really needs even if</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>she feels like I abandoned her all those years ago.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I have some loose strings to tie up though. Then and only then can I reveal</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>my identity and my plan for our future. I just hope she chooses it willingly</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>and I don't have to drag her kicking and screaming.</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Either way she will be mine.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>TROPES: mafia; hidden identity; best friends to enemies to lovers; stalker; touch her and die; arranged marriage; virgin mmc's; bdsm club; second chance</strong></p>