SHE PRETENDED TO BE A BAD GIRL TO ESCAPE A BLIND DATE — BUT THE MAFIA BOSS SAW THROUGH HER IN MINUTES

and already looking like he planned to leave before anyone sensible allowed it.

“You’re impossible,” she said.

His eyes moved to her.

“You’re alive.”

“That is not an apology.”

“No.”

His mouth barely shifted.

“It’s the important part.”

She sat beside the bed and stared at his hand resting on the sheet.

Then she laid her own over it.

His fingers closed around continue reading …