Total pages in book: 104
Estimated words: 99413 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 497(@200wpm)___ 398(@250wpm)___ 331(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 99413 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 497(@200wpm)___ 398(@250wpm)___ 331(@300wpm)
We have lost, we have loved, we have learned, but most of all we have become a family. The last nine years have defined the men and women around me. Like the inner workings of a clock, we have all moved into our places.
Well, many of us have. We thought this was all over but there is one king who hasn’t risen to his throne. My son.
At eleven, he is a king in the making. He has seen his future and he knows which piece of the clock will place him in perfect timing for his destiny. They are coming for him. It is our job to get him ready.
Tasha
I will walk you down over my children. Play with me if you want. Especially my son, Sammy, but this once I have to back up and allow him to become the leader he is meant to be.
I trust our family. I know they will do right by him. He’s the only eleven-year-old I know who has an army of killers behind him ready to set the world on fire to protect him. However, Sammy will be the one to take care of all of our futures. For he is the future of this Alliance.
Can we truly fall back and allow Sammy to train to be who he needs to be? Will our marriage struggle during this transition? Or will we become stronger than ever? The king and queen of it all with our prince—someday to be one of the kings.
In this mafia, contemporary romance we celebrate the eleventh year anniversary of both Blue Saffire and the Legally Bound universe. We receive a glimpse into all our favorite couples in this thrilling, suspense filled interracial romance that takes us back to the Blue print of the writing style we’ve all come to know and love. Enjoy, if you will this prequel into the final books in the Kings of New York and Hush series where we watch Sammy come into the ruthless alpha male, Don of the Locatelli family
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CHAPTER 1
Legal Returns
Lasalle
Am I a man who has been memorable to you? What’s my name? Who am I?
These are all questions I want my sons to be able to ask and receive the right answers to. I want them to know who they are from within. If they know who they are, they will tell the world the same and no one can take that from them.
There will be no doubting any of them. Sammy, Elijah, Paulie, and Sunny have big shoes to fill. In order for them to fill my shoes, everyone needs to know who they are from the start.
Each of my sons is starting with a challenge. Be it color, cognitive uniqueness, or just the fact that they are Locatellis with targets on their backs. I have to prepare them to stand before the world as who they are without allowing the world to label them as anything other.
When I hear the name Sam Mairettie these days, I can’t help but laugh. The name doesn’t even make sense to my ears. Going to war will do that to a man.
It changes the things he values, makes him see the things around him for what they truly are. I don’t have time to cower behind the things I’m trying not to be. The throne requires I sit with my head high and my focus sharp.
Four years, it took four years for it all to climax. Now another two years have passed, and we have loose ends that need tying. Loose ends that are becoming like live wires.
Live wires that need to be cut off before they get a chance to spark some shit that will cost us all. We have paid enough. Some of us more than others.
We have lost, we have loved, we have learned, but most of all, we have become a family. However, family means nothing without trust. Our thing amounts to nothing if we can’t stand on our name—The Alliance.
The last nine years have defined the men and women around me. Like the inner workings of a clock, we have all moved into our places.
Yet we are still refining the gears that make us work. Meanwhile, new gears are being created to fit into some of our slots. What happens when you replace an old cog?
You replace it with a cog that’s greater than the last. One that’s able to sustain the weight of the former as well as take on a greater load. However, to craft a greater gear than the last, you must be able to understand the fullness of the former and the limits of the replacements.
There is one thing I know for sure. Love is a dangerous four-letter word in my world. It will make or break an individual and bleed out into the world around them. Love has driven us, and love has been the source of our enemy’s destruction.
However, love has also been used to test us to our core. There are days when it feels like I have nothing left. I’ve run out of bullets, used up every strategy, called in every favor. Yet, love remains the constant I can count on and replenish from.
If I give my sons nothing else. It is my job to show them how love made me not just a man but the vicious savage who built them a world of their own.
Many of us have taken our place within the structure we’ve created. We also made assumptions about how this would end. We were wrong.
There is only one among us who has the answers, and he is still learning how to navigate his path. As a father, I will be here to support his every step even when that means I need to step back.
I, LaSalle Samuel Locatelli, answer to no one. I’ve given my blood, sweat, and tears for my sons to say the same. Now I will teach my oldest son how to say it with his chest.
The question is: will my marriage be able to sustain a front-row seat to the making of another me? Or will our relationship be a casualty of war? Love and war—that’s our portion.
I have made promises. All promises I intend to keep. The one I will honor above all others.
I. Will. Not. Lose.
CHAPTER 2
Loose Ends
LaSalle
We pull up to the empty lot, looking down on the development our intel has led us to. Everyone hops out of the SUVs we’ve arrived in to have a look below. This was something Misha could have done on his own.
However, we all have a vested interest in the outcome of what happens here. That’s why Logan, Uri, and I have joined this excursion and why all the O’Brien brothers have come along as well.
Czar whistles. “Will you take a look at that?”
Taking out my goggles, I look down around the unfinished development and grunt. As we were told, there is plenty of activity happening after hours. No doubt running drugs and making forbidden deals.