Lucian Reef

The Heir and His Bodyguard: A Mafia Romance in the Shadows of Los Angeles (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In a city where the night never sleeps and danger breathes beneath every flickering streetlight, the paths of Adrian Valeriothe only heir to one of Los Angeles's most feared mafia dynastiesand Evan, a quiet bartender trying only to survive another week, collide in the kind of moment that rewrites entire destinies. A failed assassination, a coat drenched in blood, a stranger standing under a neon sign with a cigarette he hasn't even lit yetEvan should have run, should have closed the bar door and pretended he never saw the man collapsing in front of him, but something in Adrian's eyes, something fragile cracking through all that power, makes Evan reach out instead of step back. And from the second their hands touch, nothing in either of their worlds stays simple again.

Evan never asked to become anyone important. With a sick younger brother and debts rising far too fast, he only wants enough money to keep the two of them afloat. Yet the Valerio family offers him what he cannot refuse: a position as Adrian's personal bodyguard, a salary that could change everything, and a place inside a mansion where every hallway hides secrets that no ordinary man should hear. Adrian doesn't know how to speak softly, doesn't know how to flirt without looking like he's preparing for war, doesn't know how to show that he cares without looking away firstbut Evan sees right through him. He sees the exhaustion behind the stone expression, the loneliness buried under layers of inherited duty, and the way Adrian's voice softensjust barelywhenever he says Evan's name.

As danger tightens around them and the Moretti family marks Evan as the first to eliminate, the fragile distance that should exist between a mafia heir and his bodyguard dissolves into something neither of them can deny. Forced to navigate betrayals inside the Valerio council, old scars from Adrian's upbringing, and a war simmering beneath the city's glittering surface, they find themselves standing closer than two men in their positions ever should. Evan learns to fight not just to survive, but to stand beside Adrian without fear, and Adrian learns that strength doesn't come from shutting the world outbut from choosing someone to let in.

But when Evan's younger brother is kidnapped as leverage and the Moretti war ignites for real, both men are forced to decide what matters more: blood, power, or the one person who makes all of it worth fighting for. In the aftermath of gunfire, rescue, and a battle neither was ready for, the Valerio council delivers a verdict that changes everythingnot a punishment, but an acknowledgment that what Adrian and Evan have is no longer a weakness, but a reason the empire survived the night.

Now, with Los Angeles quiet for the first time in weeks, Adrian sits beside Evan's hospital bed, fingers entwined with his as sunlight crawls over the room's cold floor. They are not safenot truly, not in a world built on shadowsbut they are alive, together, and no longer running from what they feel. And in a life where people kill for less and die for nothing, the simple act of choosing each other becomes the most dangerousand most powerfulthing they have ever done.

A slow-burn, knife-edged, tenderly funny mafia romance about a man born into power, a man who never wanted any of it, and the love that grows between them in the quiet spaces where the world can't quite reach.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lucian Reef
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798231570867
• Artikelnr.: 75928295