

The second day after I was transferred back to Los Angeles, I ran into someone I used to know on a street corner. She stepped right in front of me, eyes going wide. “Mia? Mia Rossi? Why would you come back now? Dante's marrying Camille at the cathedral in a week.” Dante was my first love, and also the youngest heir to a mafia dynasty on this side of the Atlantic. He'd made me a promise once: that he'd make the entire Moretti family kneel and welcome me in. We had a deal: the day he officially took over as Don would be the day he married me. But his family had other plans. They arranged a match for him: Camille, a princess from one of Sicily's five great families. Pure bloodline, the genuine article. At first, Dante swore up and down she meant nothing to him. Less than nothing. Then I started noticing how he looked at her. Softer every time. Like he was falling. One night, riding home after a shift at the bar, Camille's car came out of nowhere and took me down. The gas tank caught, and half the block reeked of burning rubber and scorched metal. I was pinned under the wreckage, blood seeping from the back of my skull down my neck, warm at first, then cold. Dante was the first one there. He beat the ambulance. The first thing he did was walk past me. He crouched down, lifted Camille out of the passenger seat, and didn't look at me once, just dropped a few words over his shoulder: “I already called an ambulance. Hang tight. Camille's had too much to drink. I need to get her home.” That was the moment I was done with him. Completely, finally done. While he was gone, I discharged myself. I bought the farthest plane ticket I could find that same night and left without looking back. Five years passed. “Mia, you have no idea.” The woman grabbed my wrist, dropping her voice. “Dante spent years turning half of Europe upside down looking for you. You came back at the right time. He still keeps a seat for you every month on his birthday. Camille's too proud for a lot of things

Julian spent three years giving up his own dreams to support Ivy’s dream of becoming a captain, only to be stood up eighteen times because of her male apprentice, Owen. After one final broken promise, he walked away, resigned from his job, and left for Avalonia to start over. Only after losing him did Ivy realize she had already destroyed the love he gave her. When she finally chased him down, all she received was Julian’s calm goodbye.
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Three years ago, the Jones family conspires with Jett Harrington's ex-girlfriend Hannah Mack to frame him and send him to prison. Behind bars, a master takes him under his wing, teaching him unmatched martial arts and skills, and leads him to conquer the Western World, where he earns the nickname "The Reaper." He returns home to settle old scores, and along the way saves Sylvia Cole by chance. Unwilling to accept a family-arranged marriage, Sylvia asks him to be her shield and fake a marriage with her instead.

For three years, Gwen played the perfect wife to mech commander Damien, forgiving every betrayal as another bead vanished from the bracelet she gave him. When the last bead was gone, so was she. Now the mech legend is back on the battlefield, and Damien and his first love are about to regret ever crossing her.