Beneath the Bloodline: A Forced Proximity Dark Mafia Romance (The Caputo Brotherhood Book 2)

I was trained to protect power. She was never supposed to survive it.

I’m Nico Caputo’s right hand. His shadow. His enforcer. My job isn’t to feel. It’s to protect the empire that made me and bury anything threatening it.

Amara La Rosa wasn’t part of the plan. She was cargo—just another nameless girl we pulled from the back of a truck meant to disappear. But she didn’t flinch. Didn’t beg. She looked me dead in the eye like she already knew who I was, and everything I’d done to get here.

But Amara isn’t a threat.

She’s a reckoning.

She thinks I’m the enemy. Maybe she’s right. But there’s something in her that calls to every part of me I’ve spent years burying. And the more I try to keep my distance, the more I realize—

She’s not the one who needs saving.

I am.