Chapter 9 - A Reason To Stay
Dante’s POV
“The Romano warehouse fire continues to make headlines, drawing comparisons to the tragic Romano estate fire years ago. In both cases, lives were lost, and in both cases, questions remain unanswered...”
My jaw clenched.
The media loved to stir up ghosts that should have stayed buried....
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 - The Very Beginning
2. Chapter 2- You’re Here To Warm My Bed
3. Chapter 3 - I Don’t Do Favors
4. Chapter 4 – The Discovery
5. Chapter 5 - I’ve Got Decades Of Experience
6. Chapter 6 - I Like The Chains
7. Chapter 7 - Hell Is Wherever I Decide It To Be
8. Chapter 8 - A Feast Before The Storm
9. Chapter 9 - A Reason To Stay
10. Chapter 10 - More Than You Can Imagine
11. Chapter 11 - If I Wanted You Dead
12. Chapter 12 - They Don’t Come Back From That Ball
13. Chapter 13 - The Ball
14. Chapter 14 – Vincenzo
15. Chapter 15 – Take Your Hand Off Her
16. Chapter 16 – Correcting Misconceptions
17. Chapter 17 – Your Body Betrays You, Lucia
18. Chapter 18 – What Are You Planning?
19. Chapter 19 - When I Finally Take You, I Want You To Beg For it
20. Chapter 20 - Not Even Close
21. Chapter 21 - Codes and Shorthand
22. Chapter 22 - Engaged??
23. Chapter 23 - Daniel
24. Chapter 24 - Too Many Questions
25. Chapter 25 - Kissing Another Man
26. Chapter 26 - I’m No Monster To Take A Woman By Force
27. Chapter 27 – Blood
28. Chapter 28 – You Just Don’t See It Yet
29. Chapter 29 - Stubborn Idiot
30. Chapter 30 - Nowhere To Run
31. Chapter 31 - Consciousness
32. Chapter 32 - Dementia
33. Chapter 33 - No One Calls Her A Whore
34. Chapter 34 - I’ll Kill Anyone Who Dares To Disrespect You
35. Chapter 35 - The Journalist
36. Chapter 36 - Discrepancies
37. Chapter 37 - Gratitude From Dante?
38. Chapter 38 - Fake Journalist?
39. Chapter 39 - Between Two Monsters
40. Chapter 40 - Trap
41. Chapter 41 - Betrayal
42. Chapter 42 - In The Middle Of It
43. Chapter 43 - They Want To Kill Her
44. Chapter 44 - Bait
45. Chapter 45 - His Greatest Weakness
46. Chapter 46 – His Weakness, His Ruin
47. Chapter 47 - Way She Wanted To Be Claimed
48. Chapter 48 – Dead End
49. Chapter 49 – Only Blood
50. Chapter 50 – A Target On Your Back
51. Chapter 51 – The Softest Trap
52. Chapter 52 - Unraveling
53. Chapter 53 – Secrets
54. Chapter 54 – Love?
55. Chapter 55 – The Things We Become
56. Chapter 56 - I’ll Handle Her
57. Chapter 57 – Betrayal
58. Chapter 58 – Stacked Heartbreaks
59. Chapter 59 - Tell me, Lucia
60. Chapter 60 - I Want To Do This With You, Dante
61. Chapter 61 – She’s Mine, and I, Hers
62. Chapter 62 - I Would Give In Again And Again
63. Chapter 63 - Pleasure
64. Chapter 64 - You Thought You Could Leave Me
65. Chapter 65 – They Weren’t Finished
66. Chapter 66 – Gabriel Fucking Rucci
67. Chapter 67 - The Revelation
68. Chapter 68 - I Killed Them, And Now I Have To Kill Her
69. Chapter 69 – Pulling The Trigger
70. Chapter 70 – When I Said The Word Robbery
71. Chapter 71 - It’s Not Just A Coincidence
72. Chapter 72 - I Didn’t Have A Choice
73. Chapter 73 - A Past I Hadn’t Known I Had
74. Chapter 74 – He Was A Traitor But Still Human
75. Chapter 75 – You Took Everything Already
76. Chapter 76 – You Don’t Joke About the Dead
77. Chapter 77 – The Last Man I Expected
78. Chapter 78 – Uncover Who Lit The First Match
79. Chapter 79 - I Wasn’t Ready To Die
80. Chapter 80 - They’re After You
81. Chapter 81 – Going Up In Flames
82. Chapter 82– Finish What Started A Long Time Ago
83. Chapter 83 – Taking You Down With Me
84. Chapter 84 – Mercenaries
85. Chapter 85 – The Devil Who Raised Me
86. Chapter 86 – Shoot. Him
87. Chapter 87 – The Shot That Changed Everything
88. Chapter 88 - There’s Been A Development
89. Chapter 89 - God, This Woman
90. Chapter 90 - The Words Slipped Out
91. Chapter 91 - The Cost of Redemption
92. Chapter 92 - Even Peace Has Teeth
93. Chapter 93 - I Want It All With Her
94. Epilogue
95. Bonus Chapter 1
96. Bonus Chapter 2
97. Bonus Chapter 3
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