He signed the contract without reading it. I signed it to prove I wasn't afraid.
Ten years of blood between the Serrano and Calloway families ends the only way families like ours know how to end anything — not with peace, but with a transaction. I get a wedding ring and a townhouse I didn't choose. He gets proof, for the cameras and the men who still want us both dead, that the war is over.
Cassian Serrano is exactly what they warned me he'd be. Cold. Precise. The kind of man who ends arguments with four words and never once raises his voice, because he doesn't have to. I hate him on principle. I hate him more when I catch myself wanting him anyway.
We were never supposed to be more than a headline. Then there's a night neither of us can blame on the whiskey anymore, a jealousy neither of us can explain away, and a cruelty he can't take back no matter how many nights he spends trying to earn his way to forgiveness.
I don't know if love was ever part of this contract. I know I'm done pretending it isn't now.
CRUEL CONTRACT is a full-length, dark mafia romance and Book One in the Serrano Creed series — enemies-to-lovers, forced proximity, and a hero who has to prove, not just promise, that he's capable of being more than what his family built him to be. HEA guaranteed, with a cruelty arc that earns its ending.
Ten years of blood between the Serrano and Calloway families ends the only way families like ours know how to end anything — not with peace, but with a transaction. I get a wedding ring and a townhouse I didn't choose. He gets proof, for the cameras and the men who still want us both dead, that the war is over.
Cassian Serrano is exactly what they warned me he'd be. Cold. Precise. The kind of man who ends arguments with four words and never once raises his voice, because he doesn't have to. I hate him on principle. I hate him more when I catch myself wanting him anyway.
We were never supposed to be more than a headline. Then there's a night neither of us can blame on the whiskey anymore, a jealousy neither of us can explain away, and a cruelty he can't take back no matter how many nights he spends trying to earn his way to forgiveness.
I don't know if love was ever part of this contract. I know I'm done pretending it isn't now.
CRUEL CONTRACT is a full-length, dark mafia romance and Book One in the Serrano Creed series — enemies-to-lovers, forced proximity, and a hero who has to prove, not just promise, that he's capable of being more than what his family built him to be. HEA guaranteed, with a cruelty arc that earns its ending.
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