THE ACCOUNTANT'S GAMBLE (THE VITALIE SERIES #3)

I was nobody. Just the accountant keeping the books clean.
My sister "died" testifying against the mob. I survived by staying invisible. Working eighty-hour weeks. Keeping my head down.
Then Gianna Vitale—Matteo's sister, my boss, the woman I've been half in love with for months—made me an offer I couldn't refuse.
"Marry me. Become Don. Build an empire."
She's seven years older. More powerful. More dangerous. More everything.
And she wants me.
Not because she loves me. Because she's calculated the odds and decided I'm her best investment.
Cold. Transactional. A business arrangement.
Except Gianna Vitale doesn't do anything halfway.
She teaches me the game. How to command respect. How to make men twice my age bend the knee.
She stands beside me when I claim my place. Defends me when they question my authority.
And at night? She comes to me like I'm the only thing that matters.
I tell myself it's just sex. Just part of the deal.
But then she looks at me like I'm not broken. Like losing my sister didn't destroy me. Like I'm capable of more than I ever imagined.
And I start to believe her.
I become the Don she promised I could be. Ruthless. Strategic. Powerful.
I take what's mine. Build what's ours. Protect what matters.
And somewhere between the board meetings and the bloodshed, between the negotiations and the nights she screams my name—I fall completely, irrevocably in love with my wife.
The problem? Gianna doesn't do love. She does loyalty. Strategy. Power.
Love is a weakness she can't afford.
But I'm not the broken accountant anymore. I'm Don Russo. And I don't accept defeat.
So I'll show her. Every day. Every touch. Every choice.
That this marriage isn't just business.
It's everything.
And I'll fight like hell to make her see it.
Even if it means gambling everything I've built. Everything I've become.
Because Gianna Vitale-Russo is worth the risk.
She always has been.
THE TWIST? My sister isn't dead. She's alive. In witness protection. With a new name and a family of her own.
And now both worlds are colliding in ways that could destroy everything.
But I won't let that happen.
I've gambled everything on this life. On this woman. On this empire.
And I always win.

THE ACCOUNTANT'S GAMBLE - Where power meets passion. Book 3 in the Vitale Series.