ALESSIO
by Bethany-Kris
Guzzi Legacy Duet, #2
Publication Date: August 5, 2019
Genres: Adult, Romantic Suspense, Organized Crime. Erotic Romance, MMF
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SYNOPSIS
The son of a prominent Cosa Nostra Don, Corrado Guzzi’s life should have been all mapped out. He would be what every other Guzzi man was, too—made, mafia. It’s their way. But when given another choice, the chance to be something more, he takes it. Even if it comes with strings.
It’s there that he might find where he belongs, and Alessio Sorrento. The man who could change his whole life.
This love thing? It should have been easy, but they made it hard. Nothing about a relationship like theirs is simple. Dictated by rules, weighed down with things left unsaid, and already hanging by a frayed thread.
This is what love looks like before, and after.
Before she came along.
And after she was there.
It takes one woman to change everything.
Ginevra Calabrese wasn’t ready for this—for them.
So, what happens now?
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NOTE: Corrado (book one) and Alessio (book two) are a duet within The Guzzi Legacy series, and should be read in order. All other titles in the series are standalone. This is NOT a love triangle.
Excerpts
Corrado (Guzzi Legacy Duet, Book 1)
“What are you doing?” he snapped.
Ginevra’s brow knotted, and she glanced down before lifting the book. “I just … wanted to get another book, that’s all. I thought it would be rude to interrupt.”
“So, instead you eavesdrop?”
“It’s not like you were being quiet. I could hear you all the way down in my room, thanks.”
Corrado sucked in a shaky breath, willing his nerves to calm. He was snappy because of the shit happening around him, and sure, Ginevra didn’t help in a lot of ways, but it wasn’t her fault, either. She didn’t choose to be here, but rather, she had been thrown right in the fucking middle of it.
This whole blow out between Alessio and him had been years in the making, always one step away from it happening. They hung on together by a thread because of literally everything else in their life except Ginevra.
Sure, she was a catalyst.
She pushed them over the edge.
And it still wasn’t her fault …
She didn’t ask for this, but here she was. It also wasn’t lost on him that there was an almost poetic irony to the fact Corrado had realized all the things he’d done wrong in his relationship, what he wanted with Alessio, and that he was ready to fix it … at the same time he was looking this woman in the face, and feeling something he couldn’t explain for her.
He wouldn’t say he was in love with her.
But it was something.
The only other time he had felt that for anyone was Alessio, and so, he didn’t know how to correlate this thing he felt to anything else.
Koi no yokan, he knew.
Except … it only made this harder.
More difficult.
Compli-fucking-cated.
Ginevra hadn’t asked for this.
Neither did Alessio.
Corrado didn’t know what to do.
“I’m sorry,” he murmured, “I’m just in a mood lately, is all. It’s not your fault, and I shouldn’t be short with you, Ginny.”
She didn’t smile.
She only shrugged.
“Doesn’t even faze me now,” she replied, “I think it makes sense, actually.”
“I’m sorry?”
“Your moods. I thought it was just you before I knew about … him. But now I think it’s really you without him.”
Corrado’s throat tightened, a lump forming there.
Why?
Because she was right.
Entirely.
Alessio (Guzzi Legacy Duet, Book 2)
“I noticed she’s not in your bed,” Alessio said.
“You’re here,” Corrado replied. “I left the option open, if she wanted, and I think her conscience sent her across the hall.”
Right.
“Or her morals, yeah?”
Corrado sighed. “Are they not the same thing?”
“Not really. One means she might feel guilty, and the other says she thinks it’s wrong to have sex with someone in a relationship with someone else, Corrado. Guilt is a byproduct of an action.”
“I don’t think the latter is the problem, all things considered.”
“Or it becomes a problem when the other person is using the bedroom down the hall.”
“I didn’t come find you to talk about where Ginevra is sleeping,” Corrado said sharply.
Ah.
Who’s defensive now?
“Well,” Alessio said, shifting and dropping to the floor eight feet below soundlessly, “I suppose that means you’re sleeping alone then, doesn’t it?”
Corrado gave him a look.
Alessio just shrugged.
That was his way of telling his lover he wouldn’t be joining him in bed, either. And if there was anything Corrado hated the most, it was sleeping alone. Maybe it was because he’d become used to Alessio sharing a bed with him over the years, or because he woke up ready to fuck as soon as he cracked his eyes open.
It could have been a lot of things.
“You should suffer a little,” Alessio murmured as he came to stand in front of Corrado in the doorway, “for what you did. Take your penance, Corrado.”
Review
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 STARS
“Koi no yokan.”
Alessio is the second book in The Guzzi Legacy Series. It’s a continuation of Corrado, Ginevra and Alessio’s story. Although it’s been a while since I’ve read a MMF, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I shouldn’t have been surprised that Bethany-Kris surpassed my expectations!
“Loving may make you vulnerable to being hurt, but it’s courageous to love all the same.”
After reading Corrado and the way it left off, I was eager to see how Ginny and Les’ relationship would develop. How they all came together was so beautifully written and the sex scenes were on fire!
“They were three imperfect people who had somehow found a way to fit together.
I am so excited to read more from this series! I’m loving the Guzzi boys, especially Bene because he seems like the fun and easy-going brother. Alessio by Bethany-Kris is an EPIC read that will join the ranks of the BIBLIO-ARISTOCRACY!!!
~ Thank you to the author for generously providing me an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
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ABOUT BETHANY-KRIS
Bethany-Kris is a Canadian author, lover of much, and mother to four young sons, one cat, and two dogs. A small town in Eastern Canada where she was born and raised is where she has always called home. With her boys under her feet, snuggling cat, barking dogs, and a hubby calling over his shoulder, she is nearly always writing something … when she can find the time.
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