Fifteen years later…
Aurora Gold had grown into a woman who carried both grace and fire. At twenty, she was no longer the little flower girl twirling down aisles in a dress, but the daughter of the Mafia King, studying abroad in Russia where her uncle and aunty, Nikolai and Violet ruled with iron and ice.
Her life seemed perfect—wealth, safety, and power surrounding her—but Aurora longed for freedom. She wanted love, something real, something that wasn’t measured in territory or bloodlines.
That was when she noticed him.
The quiet man who always seemed to be nearby. Broad shouldered, sharp eyed, a shadow who never strayed too far. Lorenzo Greco.
He never spoke much, but when his gaze met hers, something burned there. Something dangerous, something forbidden. Aurora’s heart betrayed h
