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436 pages, Paperback
First published August 29, 2016
"You are who you choose to be."
“Some people were fueled by hope.
Others, like him, long ago realized there was no hope for the future. There was only the present until your luck ran out.”
“…other guys might break your heart once or twice, but mobsters? They'll break your heart every single night."
“Being with you is the only part of my reality that makes any sense.” She smiled. “That's funny, because you're the part of mine that makes everything a mess.”
"You are who you choose to be."
"I'm not letting go yet."
"You fix what's broken, not what's lost."While the dual romantic elements of the plot are twisting and turning, the Mob families are still at war. The action is intense as the families fight to maintain control of their turf. Tensions are high for Dante and Gabriella to survive the storm. When Genna discovers the truth about her brother, her faith is shaken, and Matty once must again prove that she can trust him to care for her and give her unconditional love.
"I like to think what defines a man aren't his circumstances or his mistakes. What defines him are his intentions, and mine have always been good."
"Gavin's a great name," Gavin said. "Means white hawk, which is perfect, you know. I'm white, kind of... Italian is white, right?"
"The world tried to tear us apart in the worst way, but we didn't let it, and I know I'll never let it, because you are my world now."
"Parting is such sweet sorrow
That I shall say good night till it be morrow."
"I've spent almost my entire life wishing them dead because of what they did t0 my family. It made it easy to give in to anger, made it easy to go there, made it easy to pull the trigger."
"I let you stick it in and part of you just stayed there, and it's growing. It's, like, atached to me. And then it's going to come out and be this person we're responsible for. We'll have to feed it, and water it, and keep it alive, when we can barely keep ourselves alive."
Moretti aimed the AR-15 at Primo's face. "You just had to do this when I was here."
Primo stared at him, motionless. "This isn't your fight."
"You're wrong," Moretti said, "because I have a wife to go home to, and anything that tries to stop me from doing that becomes my fight
"Did you just...?" Gabriella asked, looking back at him.
"Did I what?" he asked.
"Bequeath Genna with a G to Matty-B," Gavin chimed in.
Dante scoffed but didn't have a chance to respond before Genna groaned. "Bequeath Gavin? What am I, an inheritance?"
"I like to think of you more like a debt, personally," Gavin said. "Like that hospital bill we all know we have somewhere but nobody ever wants to pay, because it's a lot of damn money for something that ought to be free."
"...that other oath will always come first. Always
So other guys might break your heart once or twice, but mobsters?
They'll break your heart every single night."
❝Being with you is the only part of my reality that makes any sense. ❞ She smiled.❝That's funny, because you're the part of mine that makes everything a mess.❞
❝It would've been nice, he thought, for just a moment, to have someone put him first. It would've been nice to have someone care about him... to have someone miss him.❞