He doesn't know my name.
I don't know he's the most dangerous man in New York.
Three months later, I'm pregnant with his child.
I was supposed to leave the gala with my best friend and a story about a hot man in a black suit.
Instead, I got stuck in an elevator with him. He told me to call him D. He didn't tell me his real name. He didn't tell me he ran half this city.
And he didn't tell me what to do when I saw him again — in the maternity ward of New York-Presbyterian, three months pregnant, with my hand on my stomach — and he called me a walking incubator.
Now I know who he is.
I know what he's done.
I know there are men in this city who would put a bullet through my baby just for being his.
And I know Dario Valenti, the underboss of the Valenti family, has just informed me that I am no longer leaving his Park Avenue penthouse — not until our daughter is born, not until the threat is dead, not until he says I can.
He says he won't touch me.
He says I'm safe.
He says he's paying his dues for the woman carrying his child.
But the second-trimester hormones disagree. The chef disagrees. The way he watches me from the doorway of his study with a fountain pen in his hand and reading glasses pushed up into his hair —
— disagrees most of all.
Nine months. One penthouse. One ring in a bedside drawer. One man who has been folding the same square of black lace into the inside pocket of his jacket for ten months without telling me why.
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TROPES: elevator meet-cute • surprise pregnancy • he falls first • forced proximity • cruel-then-tender hero • dark mafia romance • second-trimester heat • he kneels • broken engagement • found family • sassy heroine • dangerous hero • best-friend banter • HEA guaranteed
Dual POV. Long chapters. Explicit on-page heat. Standalone with HEA — no cliffhangers.
9 Months of His Sin is Book 1 in Cora J. Riley's new dark mafia romance series, The Valenti Empire.
I don't know he's the most dangerous man in New York.
Three months later, I'm pregnant with his child.
I was supposed to leave the gala with my best friend and a story about a hot man in a black suit.
Instead, I got stuck in an elevator with him. He told me to call him D. He didn't tell me his real name. He didn't tell me he ran half this city.
And he didn't tell me what to do when I saw him again — in the maternity ward of New York-Presbyterian, three months pregnant, with my hand on my stomach — and he called me a walking incubator.
Now I know who he is.
I know what he's done.
I know there are men in this city who would put a bullet through my baby just for being his.
And I know Dario Valenti, the underboss of the Valenti family, has just informed me that I am no longer leaving his Park Avenue penthouse — not until our daughter is born, not until the threat is dead, not until he says I can.
He says he won't touch me.
He says I'm safe.
He says he's paying his dues for the woman carrying his child.
But the second-trimester hormones disagree. The chef disagrees. The way he watches me from the doorway of his study with a fountain pen in his hand and reading glasses pushed up into his hair —
— disagrees most of all.
Nine months. One penthouse. One ring in a bedside drawer. One man who has been folding the same square of black lace into the inside pocket of his jacket for ten months without telling me why.
* * *
TROPES: elevator meet-cute • surprise pregnancy • he falls first • forced proximity • cruel-then-tender hero • dark mafia romance • second-trimester heat • he kneels • broken engagement • found family • sassy heroine • dangerous hero • best-friend banter • HEA guaranteed
Dual POV. Long chapters. Explicit on-page heat. Standalone with HEA — no cliffhangers.
9 Months of His Sin is Book 1 in Cora J. Riley's new dark mafia romance series, The Valenti Empire.
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