Two years without him felt like a slow death. I built a new life, painted smiles over the scars, but every night I woke with his name on my lips.
Rafael Falcone—my captor, my savior, my undoing. He left me, vanished into shadows, and I told myself I hated him for it. I wrote, I screamed, I bled the truth onto pages, hoping he would see me again. But when his world clawed its way back into mine, I realized I could never escape him. Because loving him wasn’t a choice—it was a sentence I would carry until my last breath.
RAFAEL
I should have stayed gone. War had claimed too much, and Alessia deserved a life untouched by blood and violence. But distance only sharpened the hunger. Two years apart, and still I felt her in my veins, burning hotter than the wars I waged. When I saw her again, stronger, brighter, living a life that didn’t have me in it, I knew I would ruin it all to claim her back.
Because Alessia was never meant to be free. She was mine—from the first lie, from the first touch, from the first night she whispered my name in fear and in need. Mine to protect. Mine to break. Mine to love in darkness.
This is the third book in the Dark Oath series. Reading order:
Book One: Crave the Dark
Book Two: Fear the Dark
Book Three: Own the Dark
She was born in chains. He was born in blood.
When Alessia is dragged into the violent empire of Rafael Falcone, she expects death. Instead, she finds something far more dangerous: desire. Their connection is raw, forbidden, and addictive—two broken souls colliding in a world built on betrayal.
But love in the mafia is never gentle. It’s obsession. It’s war. It’s survival.
And once you’re bound to the Falcone, there’s no way out, only deeper into the darkness.