I’m to be married. It should be a time of joy, but all I feel is dread as I walk down the aisle toward a man who only wants me for my family ties. But my walk is cut short when Mateo Milani enters the cathedral, murders my groom, and takes me for himself. Mateo is cold, violent, and vicious beyond anything I’ve ever experienced. The devil with a handsome face and eyes that haunt my dreaming and waking moments. There’s no escaping his grasp, and even if I could run, Mateo would find me and drag me right back to hell. He wants to possess me, stealing pieces of my soul with his cruel words and heated touches. His motives are sinister, his methods calculated. I hate him in ways I’ve never hated anyone in my life. But the part of this nightmare that scares me the most is the way he makes me forget my hatred, the way he commands my pleasure, and the way I crave him when I should want him dead. Celia's Note: This is a standalone mafia romance with dark themes, language, and situations. Specific triggers in preface.