Painted Scars: An Enemies To Lovers Mafia Romance (Perfectly Imperfect Book 1)

“Your father would never kill a man because of me, you know.”

“Well, that’s a good thing, Mom.”

“No, honey. It isn’t,”

“Marry me,” he says, “and I’ll stop the war.”

And you do not want to agitate a crazy person, Nina. Believe that.”

“What the hell happened to that extremely composed man you claimed to be?”

I decide to plead the Fifth, and wisely keep my mouth shut.

“Honey, would you mind removing the knife? I’m trying to have a conversation here.”

The head of the Russian criminal syndicate. A drug dealer. A killer. And I managed to fall in love with him. Someone please just lock me up in a mental institution, because that’s apparently where I belong.

I might be a fan of a shove-problems-under-the-carpet approach

“Pakhan. We have a problem.”

Of course, we do.

Is something wrong with the kitchen?”

Everything is wrong with the damn kitchen. “You’ll see.”

“Life is crazy. You have to embrace it.”