A federal agent sent to seduce a mafia enforcer. A killer who hasn't let anyone close in sixteen years. And a blown cover that forces them into the one safehouse neither of them can survive — each other.
Theo Brennan has spent four years undercover, fueled by grief and a dead brother's ghost — no ties, no attachments, no mission he wouldn't bleed for. When the DEA sends him to honeytrap the Russo family's most dangerous enforcer, he does what he's trained to do: get close. But Enzo Vitale doesn't break the way the profile predicted, and when Theo's cover shatters, it's Enzo — his target, his enemy — who burns a lifetime of loyalty to keep him alive.
Now they're captive and captor in a safehouse that shrinks by the hour, hunted by the mob Enzo betrayed and the agency Theo can't go back to. Enzo doesn't make promises. He doesn't explain himself. He just cooks midnight pasta and stands between Theo and every bullet like it's the only language he knows. And Theo is terrified — not of the kill order, not of the man with the body count — but of the fact that the feelings he was faking stopped being fake long before the mission ended.
Theo Brennan has spent four years undercover, fueled by grief and a dead brother's ghost — no ties, no attachments, no mission he wouldn't bleed for. When the DEA sends him to honeytrap the Russo family's most dangerous enforcer, he does what he's trained to do: get close. But Enzo Vitale doesn't break the way the profile predicted, and when Theo's cover shatters, it's Enzo — his target, his enemy — who burns a lifetime of loyalty to keep him alive.
Now they're captive and captor in a safehouse that shrinks by the hour, hunted by the mob Enzo betrayed and the agency Theo can't go back to. Enzo doesn't make promises. He doesn't explain himself. He just cooks midnight pasta and stands between Theo and every bullet like it's the only language he knows. And Theo is terrified — not of the kill order, not of the man with the body count — but of the fact that the feelings he was faking stopped being fake long before the mission ended.
- Undercover agent / mafia enforcer
Captor-captive forced proximity
He chose the enemy
Touch him and die
Morally gray leads
Who did this to you?
Vibes: Dangerous, gut-punch tender, morally gray
Some debts aren't paid in blood. They're paid in staying.
Genre: Gay Romance
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