During the darkest moment of my life, I am hired to be a nursemaid for a mobster’s son. Showing up to his house, I quickly learn nothing is as it seems. Coming face to face with an angry, abandoned, sheltered eighteen-year-old, I am immediately thrown into a whirlwind romance that somehow, against all odds, turns into the most intense love of my life.

Life is never that easy, however. A guard with selfish motives, ruled by hateful jealousy, manipulates and ruins everything, forcing me into a marriage of torture, abuse, and fear. No longer cherished, I am tagged, I am owned, I am bred for his use.

As the years tick by, I long for a different time, a different man. Emmett Lombardi is a mixture of innocence, video games, passion, and poetry, with the thirst for blood, collecting souls. He is an enigma, one of a kind. Every day, he hunts the streets, known only as The Reaper as he erases people from existence with ease. By night, he’s a broken little boy who weeps for the loss of his Momma.

Little does he know, I cry for him, as well, longing for the future we once dreamed of.
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