When She Loves

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The most brutal don in the city has a weakness: <em>me</em>.</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I never wanted the life my parents tried to force on me so I vowed I'd never marry a mobster.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Yet here I am walking down the aisle toward mobster of the century all to save my sister.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Rafaele Messero. Cold ruthless and </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>irritatingly handsome.</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Not that I've noticed.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>After all this marriage is the end of all my hopes and dreams.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And for him it's nothing more than a calculated business move.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>At least that's what I think until he snaps at the priest to hurry up so that he can </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>kiss me.</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He's known as the ice prince but when his lips crash down on mine all I feel is </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>searing heat.</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>That's when I know I'm in serious trouble.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My plan was to keep my distance from Rafaele but he's not interested in that.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He's interested in </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>me</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>.</span></p><p><br></p><p>Now that I know what he craves I vow to never give it to him.</p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I will never submit to my husband no matter how relentlessly he tries to conquer me.</strong></p><p><br></p>