Oh gosh, I didn’t like this at all 🫣. Like it had so much potential for me to love it, but it was too much mafia (I know it’s a mafia romance, but it was like 99.9 % mafia and .1% romance), too much time apart with barely any interaction, and 26 chapters of barely anything happening but so much happening at the same time. And I know this is meant to be a duet, but I feel like there should have been more development between them and more interactions. 

Favorite quotes/scenes: 

 

“I only ever laughed like this with him. It burned my chest. Heartburn. A medical condition without a cure, and even if it had one, I still wouldn’t choose to numb the pain. It felt too good.” 

 

“Some days I think we might even be two broken halves of the same whole, where darkness meets shadow. You can’t let me go, and I . . . I would rather take my last breath than live even a second without you in it.” 

“Even in Hell?” 

“Yes, even in Hell.” 

 

“You left, and I have no idea when you’ll be back, or if you’re even still alive, and every day I think to myself . . . I would chain you to me, if I could I would be the monster under your bed. The villain who bides his time, waiting for when you least expect it to strike If I had my way, Kiryusha, I would never let you go” 

 

“Kirill was my home. Wherever he went, I’d fit myself there beside him even if it meant that I fed on days-old scraps.” 

 

“I want you more than I want my next breath.”