Lies We Lived

He was never mine to keep. But that didn't stop me from falling for him anyway.Matteo De Luca was the boy I should've stayed away from.Tattooed, reckless, too damn beautiful for his own good.He saw through my walls when no one else tried.And for one unforgettable summer… he was mine.Until the night everything fell apart, and loving him became the worst mistake of my life.Three years later, I live under a different name in a town where no one knows me.My heart is guarded. My past is buried.And then Matteo walks back into my life like a storm I never saw coming.He says he's here for answers.But the way he looks at me says he still wants more.And my body remembers every broken promise we made.But I'm not that girl anymore.And he's not the boy who once held my heart.Loving him once destroyed me.Loving him again might ruin everything I've rebuilt.A steamy, angsty mafia romance about love, loyalty, and the cost of redemption.