Wounded King

My job is simple. Keep the patient alive.

Even when the patient is Marcello Orsi—NYC’s most feared mafia heir.

The moment he hit the ER, every nurse on the ICU floor refused to take him. I was the only one who didn’t run.

He came in with four bullets in his body and death on his heels.

He wasn’t supposed to survive.

But men like him don’t give up, not even to death. And when his eyes land on me, it’s like I’m the reason he fought his way back—saying my name like it was always meant to be his.

I was just supposed to keep...

My job is simple. Keep the patient alive.

Even when the patient is Marcello Orsi—NYC’s most feared mafia heir.

The moment he hit the ER, every nurse on the ICU floor refused to take him. I was the only one who didn’t run.

He came in with four bullets in his body and death on his heels.

He wasn’t supposed to survive.

But men like him don’t give up, not even to death. And when his eyes land on me, it’s like I’m the reason he fought his way back—saying my name like it was always meant to be his.

I was just supposed to keep him alive. Not get pulled into his world. Not feel safe in his arms. Not fall.

But something from my past is stirring. Something I was never supposed to find.

And the moment it surfaces, I realize the only man who can protect me…

is the last man I should trust with my secrets.

I saved his life.

Now he might be the only one who can save mine.

Or destroy me.