The Marriage Trap

Let me be clear, la mia tigrotta. I’m taking you to bed. I’m going to strip off your clothes, bury myself deep inside you, and make you come so many times the only word from your lips will be my name, begging me to do it all over again.

My Maggie, mia amore, I love you. I want to live with you, grow old, and have bambinos with you. You wrecked me. Completely … You belong with me.

The List. The love spell... A man with a sense of loyalty. A man with a sense of family. A man who is a good lover. A man who can be my friend. A man who can challenge me. A man I can confess my secrets to. A man I can trust. A man with confidence. A man with an open heart. A man who will fight for me. A man who can love me exactly as I am.

You will serve your husband dinner tonight by your own hand....not because you are beneath him...because you are more.

If you love someone, you fight for them, again and again.

Every woman should know how to make one signature dessert. Not for anyone else but herself.

You are an amazing woman, Maggie Ryan.” He gazed deep into her eyes and told the truth. “Stay with me.

She had so much to give, but no one to give it to. She buried all those messy, writhing emotions deep in a hidden secret place and pretended it was okay.

In a wacky way, she felt as if they belonged to each other. Two stray, bad-ass loners who didn't know how to handle people.