MARRIED TO MAFIOSO

"Why are you doing all this?" Ellis asked.
"Once you told me that I couldn't buy it, " Vittorio recalled, holding out his pen to Ellis. "Well, look what I just did: I bought the lady for half a million dollars."
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All Ellis Barker was longing for was to pay the last mortgage payment on the house she and her brother, Jason, inherited, and thus close her brother's debts. At least until the young woman arrived at the bank and her destiny crossed paths with Vittorio Amorielle, a mobs...