His To Deliver

SAL

Violence is the language I was raised in. Blood, loyalty, and silence—those are the pillars of my world. A Vitale doesn't bow, doesn't break, and sure as hell doesn't fall in love.

I've lived my life by one rule: protect the family at any cost.

But the problem is…
She is my family.
And she's the one thing I was never supposed to want.

Rosalia Davis-Vitale—my stepfather's daughter. The girl with ink-stained fingers and a soft heart who grew up in my shadow. I've kept my distance for years, pretending she wasn't the only person who ever mattered.

Then the night comes when she's hunted, terrified, bleeding—and calling me.

I didn't choose this war, but I'll burn down every family between Boston and Brooklyn to keep her breathing.
She was never mine.

But she will be.
Even if I have to take her right out of the fire.

ROSALIA

I've spent my whole life running from the world that raised me—law school, clean hands, quiet nights. A future far from the blood-soaked empire my mother married into.

But one wrong case, one phone call in the middle of the night, and suddenly I'm back in it—back in the shadows, back in the crosshairs…
and back with him.

Salvatore Vitale walks in like a storm—gun, blood, fury—and I realize nothing I buried ever really died. He's the boy who terrified me and the man who ruins me with a single look.

He swears he'll protect me.
He swears he'll end anyone who tries to take me.

But the worst part isn't the danger or the secrets or the bodies falling around us.
The worst part is how desperately I want him—
how easily I bend when he tells me to look at him,
how willingly I fall when he tells me he's the only safe place I have left.

He says I'm his.
And when I finally give in…

I'm terrified he's right.

Terrified I don't want to run anymore.