STONE: Her Ruthless Enforcer: 50 Loving States, North Carolina

"Sit down," says the stranger at my kitchen table—with a gun pointed straight at me. "We can do this the easy way or the dead way."

The first time I meet Stone Ferraro, it's hate at first sight...when he kidnaps me on his mafia boss's orders.

The second time, I knee him in the balls.

The third time, we're standing over my ex's—his identical twin brother's—grave. He kisses me senseless, then wonders out loud what his brother ever saw in me.

The fourth time, he takes one look at my belly, carryin...