Deathless & Divided
by Bethany-Kris
Chicago War #1
Narrator: Roberto Scarlato
Publication Date: Dec 2016 (Audio Edition)
Genres: Audiobook, Mafia Romance, Organized Crime
Chicago War #1
Narrator: Roberto Scarlato
Publication Date: Dec 2016 (Audio Edition)
Genres: Audiobook, Mafia Romance, Organized Crime
Lies and love. This is how a war starts.A life for a life. That’s the mafia way. Damian Rossi owes his life to a man who is ready to collect. That payment comes in the form of an arranged marriage to the daughter of another leading family in the Chicago Outfit. He’s ready to follow through, even if that means making sure Lily knows she’s his.
Lily DeLuca isn’t being given a choice. Forced home to marry a man she doesn’t know and back into a life she’d rather forget, her world is full of half-truths, buried pain, and uncertainty. But Damian is nothing like she expects. His motives aren’t clear. Her beliefs are being tested.
When it comes to this world, no man can be trusted. Someone is ready to flip the Chicago Outfit on its side all for the promise of something better. But no one runs a clean game and these men play for keeps. When blood begins to paint Chicago red, four families will be divided by loyalty, hatred, and revenge. There is no hiding. There is no safety.
No one is deathless.
No one.
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Bethany-Kris is a Canadian author, lover of much, and mother to three young sons, one cat, and two dogs. A small town in Eastern Canada where she was born and raised is where she has always called home. With her boys under her feet, snuggling cat, barking dogs, and a hubby calling over his shoulder, she is nearly always writing something … when she can find the time.
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When it comes to this world, no man can be trusted. Someone is ready to flip the Chicago Outfit on its side all for the promise of something better. But no one runs a clean game and these men play for keeps. When blood begins to paint Chicago red, four families will be divided by loyalty, hatred, and revenge. There is no hiding. There is no safety.
No one is deathless.
No one.
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Excerpt :
“Why
would you do this to me?” Lily asked.
Betrayal
stung the back of her tongue as bile spilled into her throat.
Dino
tricked her. He said nothing about
marriage or anything of the sort when he told her it was time to go home.
Of course, he
didn’t,
her mind taunted. You would have run.
She
still could.
Dino
seemed to pick up on her inner dilemma. “Your accounts have been frozen. You
will not receive another penny of your shares or inheritance until you are
married to Damian Rossi.”
“A
Rossi.”
“He’s
a good man,” Dino said. “And if I didn’t pick you a husband, Lily, Ben was
going to. I’m on a one-way train to prison for the unforeseeable future very
soon. Theo will have little to no control at his age, especially where you are
concerned. That would mean your welfare and choices are left to Ben. Is that what
you want? Because if you think for one minute he would consider anything that
you wanted, you are sorely fucking mistaken. Ben wouldn’t care—he’d use you for
his gain and nothing more. Even if that meant marrying you off to an abusive
prick or a man twice your age.”
“I’m
a human being. I am a free woman, Dino,” Lily snapped back. “I can make my own
decisions about my life without anyone’s input. I will marry who I want, not
who you deem appropriate for me.”
“You
know that’s not true. You might have liked pretending for the better part of
your life like you’re not involved in la
famiglia, Lily, but we both know better. Please understand why I did this.”
She
couldn’t.
“Lily—”
“Go
to hell.”
Dino
barked out a bitter laugh. “I’ve already got one foot in the door, Lily. I’m
just biding my fucking time while I wait.”
Lily
spun fast on her heel and pushed past Dino, needing to get away from him. She
only took two steps before coming to an abrupt stop against the form of a
familiar but still strange man.
Lily’s
hands splayed across the man’s chest as she squeaked in surprise, not even
realizing he had intruded on her moment with her brother. She felt her cheeks
heat up because not only had he heard a very private conversation, but she was
touching him, too.
He
didn’t seem to mind.
The
same steel-blue gaze that had regarded her earlier at the church looked Lily
over once again. She swallowed hard, feeling the bands of his muscles roping
across his pectorals under her fingertips jump. His lips pulled into a smirk
that looked entirely too wicked for Lily’s liking.
Getting
a close up look at this man was bad for Lily’s insides. He was fit with a body
built like a boxer’s. The black suit he wore hugged his over six-foot frame
perfectly and it only seemed to add to the confident, cool air he sported. A
strange disinterest colored his features, but in his eyes, it seemed like he
was looking straight through her.
She
glanced down between their bodies, noting he stood relaxed and seemingly
unbothered by the situation they were in. Even his hands were tossed into his
pockets as if he were waiting for something and not like Lily was touching him.
His
nonchalant attitude only added to his dark, mysterious demeanor.
Lily
still didn’t know how he managed to slip down the hallway without her or Dino
noticing or why he was as quiet and still as he was now. What game was he
playing?
Who
in the hell was this man?
Lily’s
heart beat a little harder in her chest, remembering the name Dino uttered
earlier.
Damian
Rossi.
“Hello.”
Lily
blinked.
His
voice was a dark tenor dripping with richness. The one word slipped from his
mouth without his lips even needing to move. She had the pleasure of hearing
many accents in her travels, but his was something else entirely.
“Damian,”
Dino said, bringing Lily out of her stupor. “Good to see you finally arrived.”
“Ran
over a nail in the church parking lot and came out to a flat tire.”
“Ah,
I see.”
Lily
stepped back from Damian. His gaze didn’t move from her for a second, not even
when he talked to her older brother like they were old friends.
Were
they?
“Hello,”
Damian said again. “Lily.”
Lily
snapped out of whatever daze she was in. “Hello.”
“It’s
Damian,” he murmured.
“I
know who you are.”
Damian
lifted a single, dark brow high. “Oh?”
“Yes.”
“You
don’t seem pleased,” he said quietly.
“That
I’m forced to marry a man I don’t know and don’t want to know?” Lily asked
bitterly. “I’m sorry to disappoint you, Damian.”
Damian’s
smirk grew into a grin. “You know me.”
“I—”
“You
do,” he interrupted before she could argue the point further. “Just not that
well.”
Lily
blew out her frustration in a breath of air, gritting her teeth. Resolve
steeled her spine straighter and she reminded herself of what her brother asked
her to do. Turning, Lily faced a stone-faced, unbothered Dino.
“I
will make nice and play good at this dinner,” she said.
“Thank
you,” Dino replied.
“But
I’m not marrying that man.”
Dino’s
expression didn’t waver. “It’s not your choice.”
“I
am not marrying him, Dino!”
“Yes,
you are,” Damian said.
The
words rolled over Lily’s skin like liquid gold. She could feel the pulse of his
breath on the back of her neck.
This
would be a great deal easier if she didn’t find him attractive.
And
why the hell was he agreeing to this, anyway?
“In
two months, whether you agree or not, you will be my wife, Lily DeLuca.”
Lily
couldn’t help it; she shivered.
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ABOUT ROBERTO SCARLATO (NARRATOR)
Scarlato grew up in a small suburb of Chicago. He has a deep, rich voice that is easily manipulated for multiple characters. He is married to his high school sweetheart. They have a three year old daughter.
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