Six years ago, I let them take him.

Luca Vitale was the love of my life — Enzo's rising second, the man who looked at me like I was the only thing in Chicago that wasn't broken. Then they arrested him for a murder he didn't commit. I was already pregnant. I didn't know.

I built a life on a single secret: Luca has a son. A son he's never met. I became a criminal defense attorney, a fortress of ice and arguments. I told myself it was better this way — Matteo was safe, Luca was alive in exile, and the past was buried.

Then Luca walked back into my courtroom.

Six years of exile haven't softened him. They've sharpened him. And the way he looks at me hasn't changed at all. But Viktor Volkov's network is hunting my family, and the paralegal I mentored for four years just sold my son's location to a monster.

Now Luca is the only thing standing between Matteo and the men who want him dead. He's learning to be a father. I'm learning to stop being a fortress. And every night in this safe house, the distance between us shrinks.

He asked me once why I never wrote.
I told him letters get people killed.
The truth is worse: I was trying to protect him. From the life. From the danger. From me.

Turns out I was the one who needed protecting.
And Luca Vitale has been waiting six years to do it.

Bound by Sin is Book Three of the Blood Dynasty series — a dark mafia second-chance romance where the secret is a son, the exile finally comes home, and six years of grief are compressed into a single, world-ending kiss.