A Balducci Family Saga

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Reign:

 

When I decided to leave my wedding band on the night stand, I didn’t anticipate leaving my vows in my hotel room too. But here I was, on the last day of the year, staring into the eyes of a man who held all my nerves hostage.

 

This was wrong.

 

But I wasn’t looking to be right. Especially not to a husband who doesn’t deserve my loyalty.

 

Still, I should be miles away from here on a yacht circling the Potomac river. My body should’ve been pressed into my husband’s hard chest while his arms held me close as we counted down the last ten seconds of the year. It should’ve been him staring at me like a snack, his eyes slowly undressing me. But it wasn’t my husband, Keith, staring at me.

 

It was this stranger.

 

How could I be so reckless?

 

If anyone saw me walking hand in hand with a man who was not my husband, I could lose more than just a husband. I could lose my opportunity to enact change to New York City’s criminal justice system as a district attorney. Yet, I swatted the red flags away and continued following this stranger into the penthouse suite.

 

Why was I willing to risk it all for a man I didn’t even know?

 

 

Nicolai:

 

I had one rule. One rule only. Never bring a woman near my home. Yet, here I was, breaking another rule tonight all in the name of the beautiful woman sitting all alone in the grand room of Camilla’s Cuisine.

 

Sixty million dollars was riding on this meeting; yet, my eyes kept roaming over to her. I was supposed to be studying the man sitting across from me—calculating his every move, screening for any deception. Yet, my eyes remained on her, following every graceful move she made.

 

She hadn’t noticed me at first. Hell, I hadn’t realized how long I’d been staring at her until her dark brown eyes rose from her plate to stare into mine. Unlike most women I encountered, she wasn’t intimidated by me openly staring at her. She stared back; yet offered no flirty smile or invitation for me to come over to her. The more I stared at her, the more intrigued I became.

 

Why was she staring back at me?  

 

As the acting boss of the Balducci crime family, I’ve spent the past two years restoring order from the chaos left behind when the former Don walked away from the life and family we’d been born and bred into.

 

La Cosa Nostra, this thing of ours, was a matrimony that could never be intercepted or broken. Everything was second to the La Cosa Nostra. It was an oath that my father prepared me to take. It was an oath that authored all decisions that I made.

 

Organizing crime to become a multi-billion-dollar corporate industry, I played every move with careful configurations. Nothing stood in the way. Not a pretty face, friend, foe, or family. Yet, tonight, I ended my meeting before it even started, just so that I could stop her from leaving Camilla’s Cuisine.

 

What was it about her?

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AUTHOR’S NOTE: This novel is part of the Balducci Family Saga. There are events and characters mentioned in this novel that appeared in previous installments. This installment ends on a cliffhanger. 

 

Please follow the sequence of the Balducci Family Saga listed below:

 

BOOK ONE - Dipping Into Sin 

 

BOOK TWO- Dipping Deeper Into Sin

 

BOOK THREE- Loving Her In The Shadows: Sovereignty 

 

BOOK FOUR- Loving Her In The Shadows: Dominion 

 

BOOK FIVE- Deepest Sin

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Want to read the first Three chapters of Loving Her In The Shadows ? Check it out below.