Cole

<p>I shouldn’t have remembered him.<br /><br />He was just a guy who walked through a restaurant. I didn't know his name. We never made eye contact. There was no connection between us at all.<br /><br />But I could feel him.<br /><br />The tingle down my spine. The command in his presence. The snap of tension in the air around him. That was the first time I saw him and I was captivated.<br /><br />The second time was different.<br /><br />He was in the mysterious back elevator of my apartment building. Our eyes met for a fleeting second before the doors closed and I was staggered. My breath was robbed. My senses on high alert. My body hummed.<br /><br />That was just the beginning.<br /><br />He was the leader of the mafia. I was about to fall in love with him and his name…<br /><br />Cole Mauricio.<br /><br /><strong>**Full length stand-alone</strong></p>