Bound by Honor (Born in Blood Mafia Chronicles Book 1)

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They Protected each other and were there for each other every time through out book and I live for things like that let’s be real.

Luca is a cold-blooded killer and is in line to be the next Capo of the New York family. He doesn't try to hide the fact that he isn't a good guy. He's lived a life where emotions were weaknesses that could be exploited by enemies and betrayals are a dime a dozen. Her only chance to survive in a marriage with Luca is to gain his affection and work her way into his heart—even when rumor has it that Luca doesn’t have a heart to begin with.The next three years had flown by, and the next time Aria saw Luca was a few days before their wedding. He showed up at her hotel suite, asking to speak to her in her bedroom alone so he could give her contraception to start taking before their wedding night, this soon turned into an argument between the two, ending with Romero taking the place of Umberto as Aria’s bodyguard. The day of the wedding came and despite her fear, Aria married Luca. As they welcome congratulations from all the guests, Aria finds herself not feeling as happy as she should be. Grace Parker, the daughter of a New York senator, and a former fling of Luca’s gives Aria a congratulatory hug but tells her the bad things that will happen to her tonight when she and Luca are alone. This wedding wasn’t about love or trust or choice. It was about duty and honor, about doing what was expected.

The cheating part irked me at first but then I got over it after I read his POV. Luca turned out to be a better person that I thought. Not good but better than most mob bosses. And yup he was hot and all possessive over Aria which was cute and scary at the same time. This story has some very old traditions and of course the young virgin bride who is hesitant about giving her body to her husband. It must be mentioned that friends that have a hard limit at cheating may find issues with Luca sleeping with the woman he was sleeping with before his marriage after they are married but haven’t consummated their marriage. Once marriage is consummated there isn’t any cheating. So I didn’t have a huge issue with that and I liked how the couple slowly explores their sexual relationship and how their marriage takes on a new light. The strong start it had completely vanished and turned into pure smut, and sadly not even sexy smut. Aria was young and naive. And stupid. God was she stupid. She constantly acted like a kid and was made meek. This is why I don't tend to read mafia books. Women are made meek. They're made weak and gutless. I get that she does't have a choice but does she have to do everything so willingly?! The times that she had a right to be pissed and lash out, she would decide to reign in her anger! And I can't stand for that.Will this marriage work? Or will it go down in dumps before it even begins? Can Luca risk his heart to Aria? But Luca, though a self-imposed monster and murderer with no possibility of redemption, might be open something different with his wife… Will he brake traction and forgo his mistress to embrace his wife to find their version of happy? Not bound by honor but with love? Vitiello and Fiore have been talking on the phone several times in the last few weeks, and Vitiello wanted the most beautiful girl for his son. Of course, we couldn’t give him the daughter of one of our soldiers. Fiore doesn’t have daughters, so he said you were the most beautiful girl available.” Gianna was just as beautiful, but she was younger. That probably saved her.

The last few words of the oath that men swore when they were inducted into the mafia could just as well have been the closing of my wedding vow: “I enter alive and I will have to get out dead.” Raffaele flushed red. “You aren’t a member of the Outfit. Nobody would tell you anything even if I raped her. I could break her in for you. Maybe I’ll even film it for you.”Romero (17/18? // 20), Luca’s second bodyguard? Cesare and Romero will be responsible for Aria's safety after she and Luca gets married. The only reason that this book did not get 5 stars from me was because it needed some editing/proofing. There were multiple instances of incorrect word usages and/or tenses. It was pretty distracting and sometimes laughable. I think that perhaps this stood out even more because the rest of the story was so well-written and appealing. The characters were well-developed, etc. Aria Scuderi and Luca Vitiello were born into the mob, and to strengthen the ties between the Chicago and New York families, a marriage is arranged. At 18, Aria will become Luca's wife, and she is terrified. Luca is may look like the ideal badboy, but Aria knows he has a retribution for being brutal and cold, he isn't a good man. But Aria's choices are limited, it is a necessary arrangement to keep her family safe, and even if she ran, he would find her - so she goes through with the marriage.