Brooklyn The years of being emotionally and physically abused needed to end. I'm scared but I have to be strong, not only for me but for my beautiful daughter, too. I’ve always wanted a love like the fairy tales I was told as a child, a love like my parents had, but after escaping hell I lost all hope of ever capturing it. Trusting another man and falling in love was the last thing on my mind. Making it through every day was the new goal for my daughter and me. Then everything changed when I looked into the most captivating green eyes I had ever seen, it was like they saw into my very soul, and I knew nothing would ever be the same again. Dominic I was brought up in a dangerous world. It took my brother’s death, and the events that unfolded after, to lead me to be the man I am today—a Mob Boss. I’m one of the most powerful men in Newcastle. I'm not a good guy, I have done bad things. I closed my true self off the day I failed to protect the one person I loved dearly, and she paid the ultimate price. Then I met Brooklyn. One look into those ocean blue eyes and I felt my whole life’s purpose shift. I didn't deserve her but I was going to make her mine. I had finally found the missing pieces to my heart and I wasn't letting them go... Angel: "I WANTED TO BE THE LAST THING HE TASTED AT NIGHT AND THE FIRST THING HE TOUCHED IN THE MORNING." Dom: "SHE BROUGHT ME TO MY KNEES AND I NEVER WANTED TO GET BACK UP."

Katherine The day Antonio walked into my Café, I knew things were about to change. He had a presence about him that commanded attention. I could see the shadows in his eyes of things I could never understand. He was a force to be reckoned with, taking what he wanted, when he wanted. He was big, strong and had eyes the color of the finest chocolate. Everything he made me feel, scared the hell out of me. When he opened his mouth I wasn’t sure if I wanted to slap him or kiss him, he made every nerve in my body come alive. But, I have a secret. I didn’t want to let him go, but it's better this way. I have let enough people down in my life so I tried to distance myself and push him away. I never thought I could love or trust any man after my father left, but Antonio was here to prove me wrong and he wasn’t going to back down. Kitten: Antonio was determined to take me to my knees and crack me wide open. Antonio Katherine was the kind of woman you could only ever dream about in your wildest fantasies. A woman who screamed sex kitten with every sway of her hips and she had the attitude to go with it. Her hair resembles fire as hot as lava, her eyes are as clear and as blue as the sky on a perfect summers day. And, her body, I swear has a direct line to my cock. She pushed me away, but I don’t go down that easy. I didn’t get to where I am today without fighting tooth and nail for it. In my mind and my heart, Katherine was mine, and no matter how long it took me, I was going to make her see she belonged with me like I already belonged to her. I know she is hiding something, I can see it in her eyes every time she looks at me. I don’t care what I have to do, or how long it takes, I will find out what it is that keeps her running scared. My Kitten isn’t the only one with secrets. Antonio: Katherine brought me to my knees and I was going to take her down with me.

Kirsty I have lived in a constant nightmare for so long, I can’t ever remember having a normal life. I was never somebody’s anything besides a prisoner, a punching bag, someone’s debt to pay. I was betrayed by the very people who should have loved me. I’m not sure exactly what love means anymore. Is it being asleep, and being dragged from your bed at night to be told the world I once knew was a lie? That I was only ever born to cover up someone else’s mistake. A mistake that stole my life away from me. I learnt very quickly not to trust anybody, let alone a man, but one look into a pair of midnight eyes swimming in pain, woke something inside me I thought had died a long time ago. How can one look cause so many emotions to play through my body after feeling dead inside for so long? But I don’t know if I have anything else to give, I’m a shell of the girl I once was, and I don’t know if I will ever be whole again. Sugar: One touch, one look, one simple husky whispered word, and I felt the safest I had ever felt. Sergio was going to either fill the emptiness inside me or leave me gasping for air. Sergio Growing up surrounded by the mob, and looking like I do, means you come in handy for a lot of reasons. I learnt a long time ago, the ins and outs, and if it wasn’t for Dominic Grasso, I wouldn’t be breathing right now. I owe him everything, a debt I may never be able to pay. Laying my life on the line for him is the least I can do. Looking into a pair of huge brown eyes, laced with pain, I knew I had to try and save her, even if it meant opening old wounds. You don’t get too many second chances in life, so when one comes along, you don’t turn a blind eye, you reach out and grab it with both hands. Kirsty is that second chance, and I will lay my life on the line to find the answers she deserves. I am big, and scary as fuck, I don’t say a lot, but when she clung to me like I was her lifeline, she didn’t know it at the time, but she sealed her fate and became mine to save, to protect, to love. Sergio: I will set the world on fire to give Kirsty the peace she deserves. I will move Heaven and Earth to protect her, and I will fall to my knees to save her.

Darkness…. That’s what my life was about, I could never see the light at the end of the tunnel. I was lost. Homeless. Cold. Hungry. Oh, so hungry. Until…. I laid eyes on him. All six feet, two inches of him. Dark cropped black hair and piercing silver eyes. Eyes which shone like a light to lead me the way home. My chest tightened. My dirty hands became sweaty. I needed to fight against whatever this was. I needed to run but, I was too weak. Nico was a bright light piercing the dark and he was either going to brighten my world or leave me alone and cold in the darkness. I didn't need anything in my life. I had the love of my brothers who stood beside me and more women than I could count at my beck and call. Until…. I first laid eyes on her. So fragile. Dirt stained her skin. Her clothes were tattered and torn. None of it hid how beautiful and delicate she was. The moment her hazel eyes locked with mine, I felt something shift, the Earth titled on its axis. She became an addiction. My addiction. I wanted…..no, needed my fix and I wouldn't rest until she was mine. I will fight every one of her demons even if it takes me to my knees.