He needed a fake girlfriend for one dinner.
She needed twenty thousand dollars.
Neither expected to fall in love.
Marco Bellandi has a problem: traditional business partners who won't deal with "unstable" bachelors. His solution? Hire a fake girlfriend for one important dinner. Simple. Professional. Completely fake.
Sloane Morrison has her own problems: student loans, a dead-end job, and a life that's going nowhere fast. When a gorgeous mobster offers her twenty grand to pretend to be his girlfriend for a few hours, she says yes.
It's supposed to be one dinner. One night. One easy payday.
But Marco's family wants to meet her. The business partners want proof they're serious. And suddenly one dinner becomes a week of pretending—complete with family dinners, relationship coaching, and way too much real chemistry.
The fake relationship is getting too real.
The lines are blurring.
And Marco wants more than a performance.
He wants forever.
He wants her pregnant with his baby.
He wants to turn the lie into the truth.
Three weeks after their first "date," Sloane is living with him, carrying his child, and wondering how a fake arrangement became the most real thing in her life.
BRED BY WICKED LIES is a dark mafia romance featuring a fake relationship that becomes explosively real, a possessive hero who falls first and hardest, accidental pregnancy, breeding kink, found family, and a guaranteed HEA. Book 4 in The Bellandi Syndicate series—can be read as standalone but better together.
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