I crash the wedding next door because my best friend dares me to.
She says it’ll be fun. She says no one will notice.
By the time the groom is face-down on marble, his nephew steps forward, a ring is locked onto my finger, and his hand settles at my spine—steady, claiming—while the room waits for his permission to breathe.
That’s when I learn the wedding was never real.
There was no bride. There never was.
And somehow, I was always meant to be here.
Rocco Rizzo is nine years older. Cold. Controlled. Dangerous.
The kind of man whose presence pulls at me even when I know it shouldn’t.
Now I’m trapped in his world—his estate, his rules, his watchful gaze that lingers a second too long.
I was meant to take the fall. Not become his wife.
But the longer I stay, the harder it is to ignore the tension between us… or the secrets closing in.
Then my body changes everything. I’m pregnant with Rocco Rizzo’s child.
And now the most dangerous man in Seattle—the one I can’t stay away from, the one whose touch feels inevitable—is the only one who can keep me alive.
She says it’ll be fun. She says no one will notice.
By the time the groom is face-down on marble, his nephew steps forward, a ring is locked onto my finger, and his hand settles at my spine—steady, claiming—while the room waits for his permission to breathe.
That’s when I learn the wedding was never real.
There was no bride. There never was.
And somehow, I was always meant to be here.
Rocco Rizzo is nine years older. Cold. Controlled. Dangerous.
The kind of man whose presence pulls at me even when I know it shouldn’t.
Now I’m trapped in his world—his estate, his rules, his watchful gaze that lingers a second too long.
I was meant to take the fall. Not become his wife.
But the longer I stay, the harder it is to ignore the tension between us… or the secrets closing in.
Then my body changes everything. I’m pregnant with Rocco Rizzo’s child.
And now the most dangerous man in Seattle—the one I can’t stay away from, the one whose touch feels inevitable—is the only one who can keep me alive.