THE RUTHLESS DON'S ANGEL

I thought I was accepting a job.I was wrong.
At eighteen, I had nothing but a small suitcase, a difficult past, and a desperate need for a place to belong. When I accepted a live-in caretaker position for Sofia Valerio, I expected a quiet job in a wealthy family's mansion.
Instead, I walked into Dante Valerio's world.
He was powerful, feared, and surrounded by secrets. Everyone in the mansion seemed to know something I didn't. The armed guards. The midnight meetings. The locked doors. The warnings that were never spoken aloud.
And then there was Dante.
He was the kind of man people obeyed without question. Cold. Controlled. Dangerous.
But I refused to be intimidated by him.
The more time I spent caring for Sofia, the more I began to see the man hidden beneath Dante's ruthless reputation. A man carrying old wounds. A man terrified of losing the people he loved.
But understanding him didn't mean surrendering myself.
I wanted my own future. My own choices. My own identity.
Then I discovered that Sofia's parents' deaths might not have been an accident-and someone inside Dante's organization had been feeding information to his enemies.
Suddenly, the mansion I had once considered a safe place became the center of a dangerous war.
And I became one of its most valuable targets.
Dante wanted to protect me.
I refused to become someone he could control.
Because if there was one thing I had learned from losing everything, it was this:
Love should never cost you your freedom.
Now Dante must choose between the man he was raised to become and the man he wants to be.
And I must decide whether I can trust a ruthless man with the most precious thing I have left-
my heart.
Because in Dante Valerio's world, loving the wrong person can make you a target.
But sometimes, the most dangerous choice of all...
is choosing to stay.