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family had our share of enemies, and this help keep them off my back and focused on Angelo, just how he liked it.
We were a team, Angelo and I. He had taken care of me my whole life, and I could never thank him enough for always being my rock. He continued our father’s legacy of remaining neutral, while other Italian families fought each other and he did his best to always protect me.
But all of that had changed a few months ago…
While we had all been enjoying a night out on the town , Karen and I had been kidnapped by a man named Paul Fernelli, a member of another Italian family that had been fighting with our uncle. Though we were usually left out of the petty fighting, Paul had mistakenly blamed my brother for the death of his own younger brother and had taken us as revenge. It had been a harrowing experience, but we had been rescued before any real damage could be done. Still, it left me unsettled at how dangerous that life could be, and I wanted nothing to do with that dark side of the family – or their business.
Since Karen had come into my brother’s life we ’d grown extremely close, extremely fast. I already thought of her as a sister, and I also liked her friends Amanda and Jonathan. They were a hoot, and such a breath of fresh air after all the chaos I was used to. Together, we had planned a beautiful wedding in only a few months. After Angelo had almost lost her, he hadn’t been willing to wait long to make her his wife. We had talked him out of just dragging her to the courthouse or flying off to Vegas and insisted on having a real wedding. At first he had argued, but after realizing how much having a real wedding meant to Karen, he quickly agreed.
He would do anything to make his woman happy, and it pleased me that Karen was the same way with him.
My thoughts turned back to the scene before me, as Angelo released Karen from their kiss and his laughing eyes met mine. He grinned, letting me see the happiness shinning in his dark eyes, and I smiled back at him though my tears. My brother was a good man, and he deserved to be happy. Still, a little part of me ached at the sight of the newlywed couple. I wanted what they had, almost desperately. To be that happy and in love…
I sighed.
Somehow, that just didn’t seem to be in the cards for me.
I watched as Angelo and Karen headed down the aisle to the sound of wild applause then waited as my cousin Tony and his fiancée Amanda quickly followed. Stepping forward, I took Jonathan’s arm that he held out to me and smiled back at him when he grinned down at me.
“Your brother can be sort of a caveman when it comes to Karen,” Jonathan whispered as we walked down the steps together.
I couldn’t help but laugh. “ Sort of? He’s a total Neanderthal when it comes to her.”
“ Yeah, but she loves that about him. You know, I don’t think Angelo would have a very different reaction if he saw how Fernelli is looking you. Doesn’t matter how friendly they are these days, I don’t see him having a favorable opinion of Vincenzo sniffing around at his little sister,” Jonathan said, nodded his head discreetly to the right.
I followed his line of sight and my breath caught as I met Vincenzo Fernelli’s penetrating gaze as he stood in the back of the room. I was instantly captured by his intense hazel eyes, the connection between us so potent is was as if nothing else existed. God, I thought to myself. Vincenzo…
It had always been like that with us.
He looked powerful in his dark suit, standing out even among the other well-built men in attendance. He was a tall man, with wide shoulders and dark golden skin, and he had these strong, chiseled features to match face that was so dangerous and brooding that I sometimes caught myself staring. His dark-brown hair was short and stylish, as if he had just stepped off the cover of some fashion magazine, but those eyes held a ruthlessness that warned others he was a man not to be crossed.
I forgot to
We were a team, Angelo and I. He had taken care of me my whole life, and I could never thank him enough for always being my rock. He continued our father’s legacy of remaining neutral, while other Italian families fought each other and he did his best to always protect me.
But all of that had changed a few months ago…
While we had all been enjoying a night out on the town , Karen and I had been kidnapped by a man named Paul Fernelli, a member of another Italian family that had been fighting with our uncle. Though we were usually left out of the petty fighting, Paul had mistakenly blamed my brother for the death of his own younger brother and had taken us as revenge. It had been a harrowing experience, but we had been rescued before any real damage could be done. Still, it left me unsettled at how dangerous that life could be, and I wanted nothing to do with that dark side of the family – or their business.
Since Karen had come into my brother’s life we ’d grown extremely close, extremely fast. I already thought of her as a sister, and I also liked her friends Amanda and Jonathan. They were a hoot, and such a breath of fresh air after all the chaos I was used to. Together, we had planned a beautiful wedding in only a few months. After Angelo had almost lost her, he hadn’t been willing to wait long to make her his wife. We had talked him out of just dragging her to the courthouse or flying off to Vegas and insisted on having a real wedding. At first he had argued, but after realizing how much having a real wedding meant to Karen, he quickly agreed.
He would do anything to make his woman happy, and it pleased me that Karen was the same way with him.
My thoughts turned back to the scene before me, as Angelo released Karen from their kiss and his laughing eyes met mine. He grinned, letting me see the happiness shinning in his dark eyes, and I smiled back at him though my tears. My brother was a good man, and he deserved to be happy. Still, a little part of me ached at the sight of the newlywed couple. I wanted what they had, almost desperately. To be that happy and in love…
I sighed.
Somehow, that just didn’t seem to be in the cards for me.
I watched as Angelo and Karen headed down the aisle to the sound of wild applause then waited as my cousin Tony and his fiancée Amanda quickly followed. Stepping forward, I took Jonathan’s arm that he held out to me and smiled back at him when he grinned down at me.
“Your brother can be sort of a caveman when it comes to Karen,” Jonathan whispered as we walked down the steps together.
I couldn’t help but laugh. “ Sort of? He’s a total Neanderthal when it comes to her.”
“ Yeah, but she loves that about him. You know, I don’t think Angelo would have a very different reaction if he saw how Fernelli is looking you. Doesn’t matter how friendly they are these days, I don’t see him having a favorable opinion of Vincenzo sniffing around at his little sister,” Jonathan said, nodded his head discreetly to the right.
I followed his line of sight and my breath caught as I met Vincenzo Fernelli’s penetrating gaze as he stood in the back of the room. I was instantly captured by his intense hazel eyes, the connection between us so potent is was as if nothing else existed. God, I thought to myself. Vincenzo…
It had always been like that with us.
He looked powerful in his dark suit, standing out even among the other well-built men in attendance. He was a tall man, with wide shoulders and dark golden skin, and he had these strong, chiseled features to match face that was so dangerous and brooding that I sometimes caught myself staring. His dark-brown hair was short and stylish, as if he had just stepped off the cover of some fashion magazine, but those eyes held a ruthlessness that warned others he was a man not to be crossed.
I forgot to
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