Deadly Devotion by Matilda Martel

I went on a blind date for my twenty-fifth birthday… and ended up in the hands of a monster.

I arrived early to the little Italian restaurant—nervous, but determined to do something spontaneous for once. That’s when a devastatingly handsome stranger slid into the seat across from me. Older. Gorgeous. Radiating a quiet, commanding menace that made my pulse stop.

He wasn’t my date.
But he told me he was.

And when the real man showed up, two suited shadows escorted him out without a word, leaving me alone with the stranger whose dark, hungry stare promised sin.

His name was Alessio Morrone—forty-eight, terrifyingly powerful, and the head of one of New York’s most feared mafia families. A man who hadn’t wanted anyone in years… until he saw me.

Dinner turned into a kiss.
A kiss turned into the back of his limousine, where he took my innocence with slow, reverent hunger.
And by dawn, I was in his bed—ruined in every way he wanted me to be.

I panicked.
I ran.
I tried to forget him.

Alessio didn’t let me.

Now he’s everywhere—watching me, shadowing me, breaking into my apartment just to breathe me in. He threatens my father for daring to keep us apart. He nearly kills a man who touched my arm. He claims me with a devotion so fierce it borders on violent.

He wants me in his home.
In his bed.
Carrying his child.
Wearing his ring.

I know he’s dangerous.
I know he’s wrong for me.
But when he touches me—when he whispers the filthy, worshipful things he wants to do to me—fear melts into heat.

I should run.
He’ll never let me.

And the most terrifying truth is how much I want to belong to him.

One night awakened him.
His devotion may destroy us both.