She told him his risk assessment had an optimism bias.
He's been thinking about it ever since.
Sadie Price is a solicitor. She is precise, sardonic, and deeply suspicious of men who look like they've never lost an argument — which is exactly what Marco Vitelli looks like. As consigliere to the Mancini crime family, he's the most strategically intelligent man in any room he walks into. He's also, apparently, the only person Sadie has ever met who argues the way she argues.
When a case at Sadie's firm gets tangled in Mancini business, Marco brings it to her directly. It's a professional courtesy. That's all it is. The fact that he watched her work for two and a half hours from the fourth row of a public gallery first is entirely beside the point.
He finds her professionally irritating and personally fascinating. She finds him arrogant and — quietly, privately, in the notes she never shows anyone — the first intellectual equal she's encountered in years. They argue constantly. They are, it turns out, catastrophically good at being in the same room.
She's made a pros and cons list. The cons column is longer.
The cons column is losing.
His Ruthless Match is a full-length, standalone HEA mafia romance with explicit heat, razor-sharp banter, and a heroine who will absolutely tell you when you're wrong. Book Two of the Sinners' Circle series.
18+ only. Contains explicit content, morally grey hero, and scenes of violence.
Genre: Romance
He's been thinking about it ever since.
Sadie Price is a solicitor. She is precise, sardonic, and deeply suspicious of men who look like they've never lost an argument — which is exactly what Marco Vitelli looks like. As consigliere to the Mancini crime family, he's the most strategically intelligent man in any room he walks into. He's also, apparently, the only person Sadie has ever met who argues the way she argues.
When a case at Sadie's firm gets tangled in Mancini business, Marco brings it to her directly. It's a professional courtesy. That's all it is. The fact that he watched her work for two and a half hours from the fourth row of a public gallery first is entirely beside the point.
He finds her professionally irritating and personally fascinating. She finds him arrogant and — quietly, privately, in the notes she never shows anyone — the first intellectual equal she's encountered in years. They argue constantly. They are, it turns out, catastrophically good at being in the same room.
She's made a pros and cons list. The cons column is longer.
The cons column is losing.
His Ruthless Match is a full-length, standalone HEA mafia romance with explicit heat, razor-sharp banter, and a heroine who will absolutely tell you when you're wrong. Book Two of the Sinners' Circle series.
18+ only. Contains explicit content, morally grey hero, and scenes of violence.
Genre: Romance
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