BENE
by Bethany-Kris
Guzzi Legacy, #5
Publication Date: November 4, 2019
Genres: Adult, Romantic Suspense, Organized Crime. Erotic Romance, Standalone
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SYNOPSIS
A vendetta can change everything …
Bene Guzzi is walking a fine line. In his family, the mafia, and even with his own twin. Being a Guzzi principe means he doesn't have time to be a screw up, so he needs to fix it and fast.
Vanna Falco is nothing that she seems. Her angel's face hides a past filled with pain and her secrets might be enough to finally take the Guzzi family down for good. That is, if no one finds out the truth.
But everything gets trickier when people who shouldn't be together, start to fall hard. And no one is more dangerous than a Guzzi in love.
The lies between them, though?
Well, they might ruin it all.
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Note: Bene is a standalone within The Guzzi Legacy and can be read as such.
EXCERPT
There’s a moment
where a person meets their reflection, and they smile. No one really knows why,
and it doesn’t have to be a huge smile, either. Sometimes, it’s done with the
lips lifting at the corners, and other times, it’s all in the eyes. A glow that
just says happiness.
Benedetto Guzzi
always thought one smiled at their reflection because they felt fondness in
familiarity. Seeing something he recognized every single inch of, like his
face, was comforting. More so than something strange and unknown.
It used to be that
way with his twin, too. Identical in every sense of the very word, Bene never
failed to smile when he looked at Beni’s face. Except lately, that wasn’t the
case at all, and it was getting harder to hide it.
Not that it was
Beni’s fault.
Or anyone else’s.
This was all on
Bene.
Speaking of which
…
“You good?”
“Yeah, of course,”
Bene replied.
“You sure?” his
brother prodded. “Because you spent two minutes staring at the wall instead of
knotting your tie.”
God.
Why did Beni have
to know him so well?
“A lot on my mind,
that’s all.”
In the mirror,
Beni arched a brow. He wished he could say his identical features did the same,
but since Bene had fallen into this pit of hell within his own mind these last
few months, all the strange similarities and quirks he shared with his brother
slowed to a stop. Beni’s continued, sure, like he hadn’t changed at all, but
Bene?
A different story.
One he didn’t know
how to tell.
That was part of
the problem—for so long, it had been just the two of them. Bene and Beni. The twins. Stuck together, if you asked
anyone who knew them. The same soul, if you asked people who were really close to the twins.
Except they
weren’t those things. Oh, sure. They looked alike and acted the same. They
spent their entire childhood, teenage years, and even the first bit of their
adulthood together, being extensions of one another, but it just … changed.
All at once.
Bene blinked, and
that was over.
In the end, they
still came out being two entirely different men. Beni was ready to be the man
he knew he could be without his twin to hold him up on his own two feet, and
Bene didn’t know what in the fuck he was doing anymore. He still needed to figure
that out somehow, and he used to do shit like that with his brother. Now, he
would have to do it alone, and he wasn’t sure how he felt about that.
Not at all.
“I’m worried about
you, huh?”
Bene cleared his
throat and shook his head. Forcing a smile on his face so his brother would see
it, and not think something was up. Today wasn’t the day for the dark shit in
his mind, and surely he could suck up his emotions for a few hours so that his
brother could have his moment.
Right?
Right, he told
himself.
He’d probably need
to say it a few more times before the day was out. So was his goddamn life
lately. A whole fucking joke, it seemed.
“I’m good,” Bene
said, clapping his brother on the shoulder and keeping that same smile firmly
in place. He could tell by the way his brother’s lips drew down at the corners
that Beni didn’t believe him, but he probably wouldn’t call him out on his
shit. “Besides,” he added, checking the watch on his wrist, “we’ve got twenty
more minutes before I need to have you downstairs, and ready to get married.
Are we wasting time talking about our feelings, or are we getting you married?”
Beni laughed. “Prick.”
“What?”
“Say married with
a little less … disgust, yeah?”
Bene shrugged. “I
just don’t see the appeal, that’s all.”
ABOUT BETHANY-KRIS
Bethany-Kris is a Canadian author, lover of much, and mother to four young sons, one cat, and two dogs. A small town in Eastern Canada where she was born and raised is where she has always called home. With her boys under her feet, snuggling cat, barking dogs, and a hubby calling over his shoulder, she is nearly always writing something …when she can find the time.
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