LUCA

The moment I saw her step foot inside of my home, her home, I knew I would do it all again, and more, to have this woman. I'd give up everything. My business. My honor. My life. I couldn't escape the truth of that any longer. I would do whatever it took, kill whoever I had to, to keep her with me. My vita. Somehow, she'd crawled under my skin and burrowed her way into the deepest parts of me. She was mine.

And I was hers.

More tears filled her eyes until they shone like a stormy sea. "Why are you doing this to me?" she asked.

"I'm...