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

bring home.”

It was the same line she had thrown like a weapon on their blind date.

This time, it sounded different.

More like a question she had grown tired of carrying.

Silven stepped closer.

“No,” he said quietly. “You’re the kind a serious man builds around.”

The words should have sounded possessive from someone else.

Maybe they would have.

From him, they continue reading …