☆☆☆Salvatore is finally finding his own!!☆☆☆

The Costa Family is back with Salvatore perhaps finding true love, and mayhem (?) with Whitney!!

Salvatore has long been a favorite of mine, after doing 15 years on the inside, he's been set up on the outside to go straight back into the Family business. Not that Salvatore minds, some people have apparently forgotten that the Mafia is a thing and they need to stop trying to take business from the Costas. Salvatore approaches it like any other task, but with Cesare by his side all is not copacetic, maybe he really should have brought Anthony?

Whitney is like any other teacher, just trying to make the ends meet in the middle, but something's really not adding up. She's working at Dolin's diner on the side for a true creep of a guy - why, oh WHY couldn't Brio have taken care of him is really one of the very few questions I have to ask?!? When she leaves one night and promptly gets caught in the crossfire of Salvatore trying to do his job, and Cesare maybe not watching carefully enough?

After Salvatore tries his best to tidy Whitney up, and Whitney tries her best at being a real pain in the a$$, which for the record is exactly what I'd do if I didn't know whether or not the Mafia Enforcer was getting ready to unalive me 🤷🏽‍♀️ - they make an agreement and he takes her home.

All seems well at first, until it suddenly shakes out why Whitney needs all this cake, and exactly what she's been hiding. Can Whitney and Salvatore continue this really sweet budding romance when his Capo specifically told him no, and she thinks he's the one who originally shot her?

I loved the sweetness of Whitney and Salvatore's relationship. Even with all the chaos, and bloodshed going on around them, they're pretty much as normal as any couple could be in this situation. Salvatore's protectiveness, combined with Whitney's desire to make a home for him, no matter where that home is is just so achingly tender, and I could just see them being retired with a million plants and dogs - as long as they could boot Anthony off their couch, and get permission from the Capo to see if it will work, if only that niggling little situation from Whitney's past hadn't exploded into their world!

Things that I'd love to know soon from Ms. Gadziala... who exactly is trying to kill Anthony because being shot, stabbed, shot, and involved in a hit-and-run doesn't scream accident to me, and where has she been hiding Silvano and how do I get MORE of his grumpy, curmudgeonly self? Because I'm in LOVE!!

A five out of five with an amazingly sweet and sexy couple, and an epilogue that made my heart squeeze even tighter!!

5/5 ⭐'s
5/5 🌶's

CW: Some incidence of DV off the page and on the page

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