Well, there is a reason why Nero and King get along very well. King is just as unhinged as his best friends. This book starts from Savannah's POV and already, you get a vibe of who she is as a person. As any nice friend would do, she is bringing food to a friend who recently had surgery. Sweet, right? Nothing could go wrong there!
Except, it did.
The man she was seeing, who pushed his way to go with her on this trip, was cheating on his wife with her. How did Savannah find out? That idiot's wife was at her friend's house. With her brother, King.
Obviously, she wasn't going to continue to see him. The only reason she took a ride back to his house(not with him, she took a rideshare), was so she could pick her car keys from his house. When she arrived, it just so happens that King was there committing... crimes. And he knew she witnessed it. So, naturally, she runs for her life. And naturally, King chases her, catches her, and puts her in his car.
Savannah doesn't feel like her life was meant to end there so she fights hard against him. Even tried to ask Nero for help when King called him.
Ultimately, Nero is King's bestie... so it didn't turn out the way she was hoping. And in King's mind, the best place to keep her is... his home. Which doesn't really make sense, but he came to that conclusion and brough her to his place.
It wouldn't be a mafia romance if there wasn't any marriage involved. Which is a conclusion that King thought was the answered to his dilemma. Hindsight, it doesn't really make sense, but he convinced himself that it was the only way. If she is married to him, no one can force her to testify against him. If people start to wonder about the cheating idiot's location and somehow connect to her being the last to see him, it wouldn't bode well with her. Savannah thinks this is insane, which is, again, the normal reaction.
King is rich, no surprise there. Not only is he extremely rich from all the investments he had done, but he is also part of the Alliance! For the past decade, he kept himself in the dark. The underworld thought that Nero was the only leader. But in the first book, when Payton was kidnapped, King decided it was the perfect time to show who he was.
So now, there are people from both side who would want to hurt King. And being married to him would also protect Savannah. In his mind. Because who would dare to cross him?
(Someone did... not surprised there.)
Savannah is still fighting against him, but she also appreciates how handsome he is. And it would be wrong to find your captor attractive, right? Right.
(She tries to convince herself of this... for most of the book.)
But one of the reasons she gives in to the fact that she is married, is that King gave her an art studio so she could continue to do her paintings. She didn't ask for it, but it was one of the first things he did. (After he snooped through her life and found out what does. Which honestly, I wish I could have an actual visualization of her work because it sounds wonderful. They sound like something I would want to hang in my home. Oh, he also snooped to blackmail her into agreeing to the marriage.)
King is also the type of man who thinks he can't really do love. He swears to protect Savannah and is overly possessive of her, but he dismisses it as just her being his wife. There's no way he fell in love with her, right?
Right?
Throughout the whole story, we see him start to fall for Savannah. He is protective, clingy, and feels like he doesn't deserve her. And honestly, Savannah also feels what is like to have someone miss her. Someone who wants her and cares for her. She couldn't believe he invited their cook and her family members(people she became friends with), and his family to her showcase. And he couldn't believe she seemed grateful because of course, he would tell everyone about his wife's showcase! Did this make him fall for her harder? Yes. It also made her to fall for him more.
Because our dear girl, Savannah, never had anyone close to her come to her show. So, to see that her husband told anyone and everyone -- she sees what it's like to have the support of those close to her. My heart broke for her. And every time she says anything about her art, it always breaks my heart. Her parents believe that the paintings are just hobbies, even though it's how she has been sustaining herself since college. So, when King said, "go work", she felt validated. Because it is her work! Also, when he told her how proud he is of her, it broke my heart when Savannah thought about how no one has ever said that to her.
After this, she is fully in the 'I'm falling hard for my husband' wagon.
It also wouldn't be a mafia romance book is an enemy of the mafia doesn't come after the woman. And that's what happened to Savannah. An old acquaintance of King comes back for vengeance, hurting Savannah before King had the chance to get to her.
The old acquaintance does not survive, obviously.
But afterwards, there was a misunderstanding between King and Savannah. And part of that, was King realizing that he loves Savannah. He has fallen completely head-over-heels in love with his wife. And Savannah says it back!
I love that Savannah is able to find love, in the form of friends and her husband! She even met Payton, and at first, it wasn't friends in first sight. But! They do become friends! And the cold-hearted mafia man is no longer cold-hearted.
Overall, I rate this as a 4/5! It was a fun read and can't wait to read Dom, the man running Chicago.
Genre: Dark Romance/Mafia Romance
FMC: Savannah
MMC: King
TLDR; King kidnaps Savannah because she saw him commit a crime. King believes the best way to prevent her from being forced to testify against him is to marry her. Which he didn't give her much of a choice to decline. In the end, Savannah has her found family with her husband and friends, something she never experienced before. King never thought he would find his match and was a goner the moment he met Savannah.
What do you think about King by S.J. Tilly?
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