Gia I’m the daughter of a foot soldier. The sister of a snitch. Monsters have been part of my life for as long as I can remember, but the morning I woke in that cold, abandoned cabin with Dominic Benedetti looming over me, I knew I’d met the darkest of them all. He took me to break me. But I’m not so easy to break. And when he saw the mark on me, everything changed. But I’ve never believed in … the mark on me, everything changed.
But I’ve never believed in fairy tale endings and happily-ever-after doesn’t belong to people like us.
Some love thrives in the light.
Dominic and I, we belong in the dark.
Dominic
I’m the last-born son of the Mafia King.
The one with nothing to lose.
I walked away from my family. Turned my back on everything that should have been mine and became what I was meant to be.
A monster.
Until the day I stood over Gia cowering in the corner of that decrepit cabin in the woods. Until I saw the mark they’d put on her.
It was then I understood something my father used to say. Keep your friends close, your enemies closer.
My enemies had overplayed their hand.
It was past time I returned to the family. Past time I collected the debts owed me. And long past time I punished those who betrayed me.
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What a book! It’s a pure pleasure to read about this dark, twisted, tortured soul Dominic!
First in Salvatore, I despised him, then something was off to him, something strange… In Dominic… layer by layer… you uncover this strong yet so vulnerable man, see him as who he really and eventually you fell in love him him..
Strong, beaufitul Gia… Life was too cruel to her, she had to grow up fast… but even in her misfortunes she stays strong, loyal and beautiful inside and out.
Natasha Knight knows how to do a mafia bad boy…Dominic is perfectly bad. I loved his story even more that Salvatore.
After a seven year self-imposed exile from “the family” circumstances and events force him to make contact with his brother, Salvatore. Mind you, our bad boy hasn’t been idle, he’s been making his own way, but after “that night” he refuses to think of himself as a Benedetti. What a difference a day makes.
There were some surprise twists in this story, Gia was indeed his true love match and Dominic struggled, a lot, but the real beauty of this story is the way the author keeps Dominic true to his inherent personality. He’s bad, not evil, but ‘the life’ is who he is and love doesn’t make him weak. Even before his well ordered life blew up in his face, he knew in his heart what he was and what he wanted. Love may have given him a slightly different perspective but he didn’t change who he was for it, he wanted Gia to see him, all of him and she needed to accept. And she did, beautifully.
This story was so well written, I flew through the pages. Natasha Knight will be one of my go-to authors…I highly recommend her Benedetti Brothers <3
I loved it! Its a great second story to this series. Hot, dark, dirty = yum! haha. Dominic is a alpha and he’s a monster, but Gia is a strong female and she gives him a good fight. I love this couple!
Twisted and dirty. Dominic is as tragic as they come…paring with Gia to claim waht is his…amazing.
Extremely dark Mafia Romance
This is the story of Dominic & Gia. This is Book 2 of The Benedetti Brothers (A Dark Mafia Romance). This story was a jolt to my system, that’s how great it is written. Dominic has so many dark issues. He leaves after almost killing his brother Salvatore, which the bullet was not meant for him at all. Salvatore stepped in between Dominic and their father after their father revealed a truth to Dominic. This story picks up seven years later. Dominic still hasn’t returned to his family. There is a myriad of feelings; remorse, revenge and guilt mostly. I’m giving away no spoilers. You must read this story. It is excellent.
Dark and brooding!! Awesome book!!
Book 2 of the Benedetti Brothers was definitely darker than book 1. I loved reading Dominic and Gia’s story. Dominic certainly was a dark character after fleeing at the end of book 1, Salvatore. He is challenged with his darkness when he meets his next job, Gia. He was not prepared that she was living with her own darkness and feisty enough to stand up to him. I loved the darker side of this story and how in the end they got their HEA.
If you read the first book, Salvatore, get ready. This one is darker.
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Dominic, the youngest son of Franco Benedetti, left the family to knew himself, after he and his father had a serious fight and certain family secrets surfaced.
Seven years later, Dom did a dirty job which, to him, was more fitting to his lineage.
This is how he contacts Gia – Gianna Castellano.
Gia had been taken to a hidden hut to be trained as a submissive and sold at auction.
Her torturer, Dominic, feels she was not like the previous girls he’d trained. She had a different fire in her look and looked like someone he’d met in his teens.
Wondering who Gia was and what she represented to the man who had sent her, and wanted her trained, Dominic discovered an even darker plan of everything he had ever done. And worse, it affected the Benedetti Family directly.
Hatred and lust permeate the relationship between Dom and Gia.
And when Franco dies and his will is read, the surprises do not stop happening…
At the beginning of the book, the reader imagines that this will be one more story involving non-consensual sex, revenge, manipulation, and the Stockholm syndrome.
But more or less in chapter 9, everything explodes.
The secrets that are revealed make the story much more interesting, hence, you can not drop the book until you finish it.
The romance between the couple is ok, but the mystery and resolution of this is much more interesting.
5 stars
Yep, I was right. DOMINIC was everything I hoped it / he would be and more. However unredeemable you might think him to be – I don’t care, I fell for him, hard and fast, and I wouldn’t want it any other way. Should I feel bad for loving a corrupt and utterly dark and twisted alpha male? Probably. Whatever. Pffft!
Because, deep down, Dominic hides his broken and lost soul. Ever since his world came crashing down on him seven years ago the night his father told him the truth of his birth – and after always being second-best, the one to do all the dirty work without receiving recognition, it was the final straw. He completely disappeared, left his past life behind, to fully embrace his dark side, all while deeming himself a monster and unlovable. He despises himself and cannot fall deeper in this bottomless pit of pain and self-loathing, so he sees no trouble in also proving himself to be all that by becoming a trainer of kidnapped and stolen girls to be sold at sex slave auctions.
And Gianna – Gia – should be nothing but his next job, another girl in a long line, nothing special at all. But somehow, there’s something about her that makes her different, a nagging feeling that they have met previously.
Being the daughter of a mafia foot soldier, Gianna Castellano is no stranger to this world. She knows of the danger and darkness that is always lurking in the shadows. She is headstrong, not easily to be scared away and fierce – yet an air of innocence surrounds her. Her captor with the scary mask whom she aptly named ‘Death’ scares her, but still she doesn’t cower. He might be no hero, but she’s no wallflower either. She matches his dark and twisted crazy with her own, bringing out the piece of goodness – his humanity – that’s buried deep down in the process…
This story … nothing is ever as it seems to be, it has so many twists, turns and shocking moments that I’ve lost count. The intrigue. The danger. The drama. It’s as brutal, dark and suspenseful as it is gritty and raw. Gut-wrenching, intense and heart-stoppingly sexy. I could go on, but I’ll leave it at that.
Natasha Knight’s broken heroes truly are a force to be reckoned with. Each new character more broken than the last one, each story a bit darker than its predecessor. The kind of dark romance I will never get enough of.
And Michael Pauley’s narration – intense and raw, adding to the goosebumps-provoking feeling of the whole story. I don’t even mind his partially a bit over-exaggerated narration anymore. Somehow, it only complemented the story.
I love it when a character you hate in one book, makes you change your mind about them in the second book. That is what happend with Dominic, he was a ass in the first book, but the monster in the start if this book slowly took off his mask and showed himself.
I also liked Gia, she had a lot of spunk and was a great match for Dominic. There was also plenty of angst, action and steamy scenes. It was also great to see Salvatore again.