Enzo & tess
TESS
Maybe I lied about my name when I met Enzo, but after five minutes with him, I want to be someone else. I don't want to be Lila Tessa Merchini anymore. Am I crazy for accepting the offer to run away with Enzo when I don't even know him? But I hardly have a choice. It's either stay in my current predicament, stuck under the organized crime leader, Horace Merchini, or take Enzo's invitation for a better life. But what I don't know is that Enzo is actually Lorenzo Salvatore, of the rival family to Horace Merchini's family. I'm desperate. So, I run. I run with Enzo all the way to his Italian chateau on the shore of Como Lake, Italy.
I should have known that getting away wouldn't be so easy. Horace is looking for me back in the states. And while he's searching, I'm falling for Enzo, befriending his team of men, his household, and family. I'm learning about myself. Learning how to accept the love that Enzo says I am worthy of. It's a life that I never could have dreamed of.
ENZO
I wanted her, the second I saw her. Only a few minutes in her presence and I knew that she was mine. Even knowing that my father will be adamantly against and American woman, I take her home.
Tess brings a peace to my life and a desire for a quieter time. I want to be out of the family hell-show, the organized crime business. I want to give it all up and live my life with Tess. Father won't hear of it. He is arranging a marriage for me with a friend of my sister. I can't. I won't give Tess up. But I may not have a choice when Tess disappears. Everyone says she left me, but I know she wouldn't. Where is she? Did my father get rid of her? Does Horace Merchini know that I took a woman from his club? Or has she really left me without a look back?
