MAFIA KING

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Emma</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I was a willing sacrifice in an arranged marriage.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Until my father made a new deal and gave me to another.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Now I must marry a savage.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A Northerner-the very thing I had been taught to hate.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I vow to never be his. I will never belong to Shay O'Reagan.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I will defy him every step of the way.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He may lay claim to my body but he will never own my heart.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Shay</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In order to secure my place in the Irish Mafia I agree to an arranged marriage.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A marriage with a willing bride one groomed to be the wife of a mafia king.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>What I get is a redheaded beauty hell-bent on my destruction.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Turns out she was meant to be the perfect mafia wife-just not mine.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>That treacherous detail doesn't stop me from wanting her.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>From needing to taste her ruby red lips.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The fire that blazes in her defiant eyes lights a desire inside of me that demands I claim her as my own.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>While she wastes my time defying me with every breath the North rises up demanding retribution for a crime that was buried a long time ago.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The clock is ticking as I battle a war around me and within my own walls. Every minute takes us both closer to certain death.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I'm unsure of who my true allies are and where my enemies are hiding. There's only one thing I'm certain of.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I will never give up.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I will fight to the end no matter the cost.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I am a King and I will die on my feet.</strong></p><p></p>