VIVIENNE
Every day, in a federal courtroom, I take down every word anyone says. Exactly. Nothing added. Nothing lost.
I've never been much good at saying my own.
Then a man was shot dead in the alley behind my building, and I pointed at the one kneeling in his blood.
Dario Castelli. A defense lawyer with a famous last name and a mouth that never stops.
My words put him in chains. Now somebody in a mask wants me to keep saying them, and knows exactly which way my sister's boys walk to school.
So when the man I accused offers me a way out, I take it.
A ring. A courthouse wedding. A husband no court in the country can make me testify against.
I married the man I swore was a killer.
And every night in his bed, I'm less sure what I saw.
DARIO
I talk for a living. Judges, juries, cops, killers. There isn't a room in Chicago I can't talk my way out of.
Then a man died under my hands in an alley, and a woman at a window pointed at me.
I know her. The quiet one in the corner of every courtroom I've ever worked, taking down every word I say. For years I watched her and never once heard her speak.
Now her silence is the only thing standing between me and a life sentence. And whoever really pulled that trigger needs her to keep talking.
So I'm marrying her.
For the privilege. For the protection. For reasons I'm not ready to say out loud.
I've wanted her for years and never said a word.
Now she's wearing my ring, and I'm never going to shut up.
This is the third book in The Castelli Brothers Series. Reading order:
Dante.
Nero.
Dario.
