Angelo: Making a Monster

by Loki Renard

He wasn't born a monster. They made him one.

Angelo Vitali keeps his enemies close, and his lovers captive.

Unless you've been taken by Angelo, it's impossible to understand the depths of the depravity he will inflict on you in the name of his desire. Those who belong to him suffer greatly, hating him as much as they love him.

If you are captured by Angelo, you'll learn what those in the House of Vitali have always known.

You can run. You can resist.

But there is no escaping the monster.

This is how the monster was made...

Genres: M M Romance, Dark, BDSM

70 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 1, 2018

About the author

Amazon Top 100, USA Today bestselling, and #1 bestselling author in multiple Amazon categories, Loki Renard writes sizzling hot, occasionally dark and twisted stories of dominance, submission and discipline.

Reviews

[Sophia Triad · Rating 3 out of 5]

The tragic story of Vitali's first boyfriend, Antonio. It explains why Vitali was attracted to Bobby in the beginning.
I missed my favourite character of this series, Mark, in this book. He was still there but in the background.

Recommended book order – House of Vitaly series:
1. Taken boy with Angelo Vitali and Bobby
2. Perfect evil with Angelo Vitali, Mark Locke and Bobby
3. Pure evil with Angelo Vitali, Damien Colt, Mark Locke and Bobby
4. Angelo with Angelo Vitali, Antonio, Mark Locke, and Bobby

Box set: Broke and Bound

Stories in the same universe:
1. Shamefully Broken with Elliot Taylor-Chapman and Maven Malone
2. Broken Boy with Aiden Taylor-Chapman, Steven and Robert

[mlady_rebecca · Rating 5 out of 5]

Damn. Bobby makes the mistake of showing Angelo too much affection. Instead of sexual punishment, he chains him outside in the snow, naked. Mark barely rescues him before frostbite sets in.

Bobby let out a little growl. “We’re done, for now, I guess, if you’re going to beat me for caring.”

Angelo took Bobby by the chin and directed his head up, brushing a few stray strands of dark hair out of Bobby’s eyes with his other hand as he spoke gently in tones which were more thickly accented than usual.

“Don’t care for me, Bobby. Don’t start to make that mistake. I swear, it will only hurt you in the end - worse than I intend for you to be hurt. I took you against your will. I brought as a prisoner and I have made sure at every turn that you burn with hatred for me. None of that is an accident. Don’t fall in love with me.. It won’t end well.”

Bobby’s gaze started to well. “You’re fucked up, Angelo.”

“Beyond your wildest dreams, boy,” Angelo purred, brushing his lips across Bobby’s mouth. “Now go get cleaned up. You have work to do.”

“I’m going to care about you,” Bobby said as soon as he’d levered himself out of arm’s reach. “And there’s nothing you can do about it.”

An explosion of motion sent sheets flying as Angelo lunged up, grabbed Bobby by the arm and the back of the neck and pulled him back down on the bed, pinning him prone against the wet spot where their seed had been spilled.

“I can do everything about it, boy,” Angelo growled, his hand tight on the back of Bobby’s neck. “I can make your world so painful you don’t know what love is anymore.”

“You already tried that,” Bobby growled. “Stop being an asshole.”

“No,” Angelo snarled back, his voice holding an intensity which made Bobby tremble. “You will do as you are told, boy. You will manage your emotions. You will understand that this is not a traditional relationship. We are not boyfriends. We are not a couple. You are my prisoner. Nothing more. Nothing less.”

Bobby shook his head, insomuch as he could. “You can beat me, Angelo, but what are you going to do to yourself?”

“What do you mean?”

“I mean what are you going to do about the fact you love me?”

Angelo’s voice became so low and so cold, Bobby nearly felt his marrow freeze.

“You’ve forgotten your place, boy. It’s time you were reminded of it.”

After Mark cares for Bobby, he confronts Angelo, ending up choked unconscious on his office floor. While Mark is questioning him again about why he punished Bobby that way, Bobby comes in shooting a crossbow, destroying property, ready to kill Angelo. Mark leaves them to their mutual crazy.

Angelo tries to calmly retrieve the crossbow from Bobby, and Bobby tries to kill him with a bolt in the stomach. Angelo escapes the blow, but in the struggle the two of them roll down the stairs together. Lying on glass, hurt, they tear into each other sexually.

“Fuck you!” Bobby swore again as the conflict turned brutally physical, a true fight which resulted in them both losing their balance and tumbling down the stairs sideways, rolling over one another, bumping and bruising all the way to the shattered glass below.

Angelo landed atop Bobby in the end, pinning the boy beneath him. They were both bruised. Both hurt. They were both bleeding from grazes and cuts. Both breathing hard. A rough kiss bloomed between them, Angelo’s lips capturing Bobby’s in a lip lock of pure passion.

In the kiss, Bobby relaxed. The tension flowed out of his body and into his cock. Angelo felt Bobby’s erection pressed against his inner thigh. There it was. The heat between them, the love that existed even though it perhaps shouldn’t. The bond that was tested in fire every time they came together. Cut from the same cloth. Made from the same mold. Perhaps it was narcissistic, but it was more than that. It was the understanding that could only take place between two sides of the same coin.

“Bad boy,” Angelo growled against Bobby’s mouth. “You know what happens to bad boys, don’t you?”

“Fuck you,” Bobby moaned back.

What happened next was a foregone conclusion. Their brutal foreplay at an end, their hands tore at one another’s clothing, Angelo’s fly giving way to the rampant rod of his cock. Bobby’s pants were ripped at the seams, his legs pushed back against his belly, his ass exposed. That tight little hole Angelo had fucked just hours earlier still showing traces of lube and cum.

Angelo didn’t waste a moment before plunging inside Bobby, pushing his cock into that tight little hole which gripped him with heat and hot rage.

The glass was all around them, blood smearing marble floor as Angelo fucked Bobby into submission, sinking himself into that rebellious, tight flesh which needed him as much as he needed it. Two sides of the same coin. Cut from the same cloth. Whatever you called it, it was a meeting of dark flesh, a shedding of bright blood.

Dangerous, perhaps, but neither of them cared about the cuts and scrapes they were incurring, Angelo’s cock plunging in and out, over and over, looking for the quick, rough, peak of orgasm.

Bobby’s hands wrapped around his neck, holding and grasping, just holding off choking. There was hatred and love burning in the boy’s gaze. As much as Angelo tried to kill the love in Bobby and in himself, it persisted, a dangerous, dark connection which would have to be broken.

But not today. Today that love had them both in its grasp, a bond which was sick by all accounts, but no less powerful for that fact, a bond which made the tight ring of muscle around Angelo’s cock contract over and over as the boy came closer to his own climax, wailing and writhing in the mess he had made.

Seed roiled in Angelo’s balls, hit the shaft of his cock and burst forth coating the inner walls of the boy’s clenching ass as he roared his triumph, his domination, and his victory. Hot, wet cum joined their stomachs, Bobby’s orgasm coinciding with Angelo’s, both shuddering and grunting and thrusting until finally they collapsed together in the chaos of their making, panting softly.

“Better?”

Angelo looked up to see Mark was standing over them, broom in one hand, sandwich in the other.

“Much.”

“I don’t understand you at all,” Mark sighed. “Bobby tries to get close to you, you throw him into the snow. He tries to kill you and you kiss it all better.”

“You don’t need to understand,” Angelo said, standing, and helping Bobby to do the same.

Bobby was bleeding from a small cut to his forehead, but the anger and the sulking rage had gone, replaced with a broad smile. Mark probably didn’t understand that either, but Angelo did. And that was all that mattered.

Later Mark tries to question Angelo again, but Bobby is strangely satisfied.

“Angelo, would it kill you to tell us why you felt the need to put Bobby out in the damn snow and then fuck him in a bed of broken glass?” Mark was playing nurse, cleaning Bobby’s cuts and grazes while Angelo looked on, having already been attended to. “Quit squirming,” he added.

“I’m not squirming. Hurry up. And Angelo, you better lock Mark up outside for asking that,” Bobby smirked. If he was in pain, he didn’t care. He’d needed catharsis and connection. He’d gotten both. He’d be satisfied now, even if Mark wasn’t.

****

In parallel to that story, we get a glimpse of Angelo’s past, what made him spurn love. He once had a gentle lover, a boy he saved from the streets.

Angelo looked down at the love of his life. His messy, disheveled boyfriend who had, as usual, not done a single thing since Angelo last saw him. Sometimes it was more like having a cat than a lover.

He wasn’t dressed. He hadn’t even gotten up out of bed. He was lying there with a bowl of candy cereal, one of many bad dietary decisions which hadn’t yet started to cover his abs with fat.

Antonio Carelli was eighteen years old, maybe a little too young for Angelo, but Angelo took care of him. Made sure Antonio had everything he needed. The young man’s parents had kicked him onto the streets and Angelo had picked him up, put him together.

*

Angelo bent down and pressed a fond kiss to Antonio’s lips. The kiss deepened into something more passionate. Antonio’s innocence was precious, but it was fading by the day as Angelo led him into ever more intense sexual exploration. The younger man was eager, and try as he might to not take advantage, Antonio practically insisted on it.

“What have you been doing all day?” Angelo broke the kiss and lifted a brow at Antonio.

The young man sat up and ran a hand through his bed tussled dark hair. God, he was gorgeous. Big brown eyes, the soulful, sensitive kind, hair that needed a cut but he refused to get one. One piercing in his nose and another in his ear. A slim body, not powerful, but still muscled in the way fit young men with little in the way of body fat are.

*

He pulled Antonio into his arms and they made the kind of free love which only the young can have, the love shared between two hearts as yet unfettered with the cares of the world, or the weight of real responsibility.

Antonio was soft and compliant, his erection stiffening as Angelo covered his body. Angelo was so much larger, more muscular, more powerful. There was something delicate about Antonio. Something that cried out for protection - and desecration.

There were advantages to having a lazy boyfriend who never got dressed or got out of bed, for that matter. A drawer full of condoms and lube at hand was also convenient. Angelo stripped off his jacket and shirt, opened his pants and pushed them down just enough to let his cock spring free. Another ripped condom wrapper joined the collection forming like fall leaves next to the bed.

Antonio let out the most perfect sigh as Angelo parted his hot cheeks and found that dark little hole which belonged to nobody in the world besides him. They’d been together for six months now, long enough for that hole to become accustomed to him, to relax for him while still staying so deliciously, youthfully tight.

Being inside Antonio was hot and perfect. Angelo wrapped the younger man in his arms and surged inside him over and over again, his cock finding that perfect place where they were both so satisfied it felt as though the world itself was melting around them.

His hunger for Antonio was like no other. It was as if the boy called to every part of him; his lustful side, his nurturing side, even the darker side he battled against daily.

Antonio’s hips rose against him, urging him deeper. The boy was starving for affection, and for cock. The sounds he made were ones of pure unrelenting pleasure, an almost constant moaning growl emitting from his throat. Angelo’s hands slid from their embrace, one finding the stiff rod of Antonio’s dick, the other closing lightly around the front of his neck, holding him in a possessive, sexual grip which became the catalyst for the final pounding, writhing crescendo of their love.

As much as Angelo wanted to last longer, the two of them together were pure fire and in minutes twin geysers of sperm marked the climax of their tryst. Angelo’s found the barrier of the condom. Antonio’s made the bed sheets that little bit more sticky and crusty.

“Fuck yeah,” Antonio breathed.

“Good boy,” Angelo rumbled in return.

Antonio was killed, brutally, as an object lesson for Angelo who was already building up his territory. After that Angelo vowed to live for two things: power and revenge.

The next years and decades were busy ones. With nobody to love, Angelo was completely, utterly free to make whatever decisions most appealed to him, and to risk everything time and time again. It did not matter to him if he lost his life. Antonio was waiting for him on the other side - of that he had no doubt.

Bobby, like Antonio, has big brown eyes. Though at that point the comparisons end.

“I have a job for you, if you’re interested.”

“I’m listening.” Angelo didn’t take jobs, but he wanted to know what Mason had to say.

“I’ve got trouble. Boy going by the name Bobby Cornoli. Nasty little piece of work, vicious, cruel little fucker. He’s running a corner in Brooklyn.”

“Sounds familiar,” Angelo purred.

“Mhm. I thought it would. Anyway, this boy isn’t a legal takedown option. He’s too smart for that, but he’s doing his damndest to kill my client. So here’s what I propose. You take Bobby. See if you can make him see sense. I’ll owe you one.”

“You want me to shakedown a small time brat?” “I want you to do more than that. I want you to get him off the streets. For good.”

“Mason, you’re the mercenary.”

“Security specialist,” Mason corrected smoothly. “And I’m not asking you to kill him. Just, find a use for him. I’m sending a picture.”

Angelo glanced down at his phone. An image appeared on the screen. A boy, very early twenties in age. Dark hair, dark eyes, handsome. It wasn’t his looks which made it so impossible for Angelo to pull his eyes away from the picture though, it was the expression on his face. The same expression he’d once seen in the mirror. A bolt of recognition fizzed through Angelo’s chest and belly, found his cock and made it instantly swell. He wasn’t looking at some troublesome thug, or would be wise guy. He was looking at the future.

Angelo put the phone to his ear, a dark smile claiming his mouth.

“I’ll deal with him.”

Bobby was more insightful than he knew. Angelo already loves him.

Angelo opened one eye at Bobby, who was laying next to him, his head propped up on one arm, looking at him with a rebellious expression. He was beautiful in the low light of the room, those deep dark eyes holding so much barely repressed feral instinct in their gaze.

Would Antonio have liked Bobby? Probably not. Bobby was one of the most vicious and unlikeable little brutes Angelo had ever come across. His repeated murder attempts would have upset Antonio greatly. Then again, Antonio probably wouldn’t like who Angelo had turned into either.

“Boy,” Angelo growled. “I will take my belt to your ass if you keep it up.”

“Yeah? So? That would be the least painful thing that happened to me today.”

The corners of Angelo’s lips turned up into a smile. He was being baited by the boy, who could not get enough pleasure, or enough pain. Bobby may never know it, but he was the bright light at the end of a very long tunnel, and in claiming him, Angelo had found something he never expected to find twice in the same lifetime: love.

[Joyffree · Rating 4 out of 5]

Vengeance Desire Corruption

This is an in-depth look at Angelo -what drives the monster within the man? It also answers the question of how a lowly street urchin was able to amass the power and presence that Angelo has.
If you enjoy dark psychological thrillers then I definitely recommend this series

[Sierra Clothier · Rating 5 out of 5]

What is amazing about Renard's books are how diverse and unique they are, even after a large catalogue has already been completed. I love an alpha male, even one that is borderline sociopathic. I've read a ton of books with these wonderful villains that I've hated to love. But Angelo is different.

I've read Taken Boy by Renard, so I'm already familiar with the characters. In this book, Angelo seems to have everyone and everything right where he wants it. He's in a relationship with Bobby, and Mark, while he talks back to Angelo, he still seems complacent. But things aren't as they seem, and Angelo can't help but look to the past for self reflection.

We learn a lot about why Angelo is how he is, and while you might sympathize as the reader, Renard doesn't make excuses for Angelo. You find out what he went through, but you still say, "Angelo is a monster." He's a true enigma, and Mark ends up being the voice of reason. Why does Angelo let Mark get away with his words? Perhaps it's because Angelo compartmentalizes all his relationships, with each man in a specific role to suit Angelo 's needs, or future needs.

I read the ending just wanting more. This is clearly the beginning of a series, but to me it's too short. This book is edited well, and flows like a dream. Angelo is too much of a man for one short book, and his past need a further exploring. Hopefully next book?

[MsMoxy · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 Stars for Angelo

Angelo is a quick compact read that will drag you into the eye of its storm and spit you back out without a clue of where to go next, what to do next, or what to think next. This twisted little novella is dark and depraved in its intensity and begins in the throes of carnal pleasure.

Angelo is a very cruel man who derives great satisfaction in controlling others. He just didn’t bet on any sentimental attachment from his captive Bobby, who is equally cruel and twisted in how he expresses his feelings for his captor. The story unfolds as the two share moments of intimacy that throws Angelo into memories from his past. It forces him to be that much more vicious with Bobby (and Mark), and this self-made boss will stop at nothing to drive his point to both his captives that he is evil and irredeemable.

I won’t go on any further, this story is best read going in blind. If you’re looking for a book to really experience and give you the feels that will appease your dark heart, than look no further. Angelo will satisfy any reader that is looking for a dark, violent, sensual read.

I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this book.

[Soscha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Angelo Vitali is back, albeit in abbreviated form.

“Angelo: Making a Monster” is an essential entry in the “House of Vitali” series, but the it’s more a snapshot of, as advertised, how Angelo became the man he is in the now, and not necessarily a novel that’s advancing much storyline development in the present time between Angelo and the other two “House” members, Mark and Bobby. There is minimal dirty sex here---kinky Angelo-level perversity stuff, yes, but more to elucidate the dynamics between the characters as they exist currently. So this is a piece more in line with window-shopping at the bakery, and not necessarily directly butter-creaming the cupcake.

Still, Bobby. Oh, how I love Bobby. The best parts of any House of Vitali book have to do with what a ragingly adorable little psycho boy he is. And Ms. Renard doesn’t disappoint on that front here, though one must ask why Angelo allows a crossbow in his home, given the potential for unanticipated domestic disruption.

Where does the House of Vitali series go from here? Fans can only wait and see. But she better leave Bobby alone! #TeamBobby

**** Stars

[Jan · Rating 5 out of 5]

We go back to 1982 and learn about what made Angelo the way he is. He was 25 when it all began. Antonio was the love of his life. He was younger and had an innocents to him. Things were going great but then he got a bit too bold. And the monster is unleashed.

You have to agree that this is really sad. The one man that Angelo had found a true love for was gone. Angelo was trying to make a move up in the world and then. But they messed with the wrong man. Angelo had that hard streak from the very beginning of the book. Even before you read the others, you knew this man was someone you did not want to be on the wrong side with. Past forward to the present and we still have Bobby and Mark. Bobby is still so in need of guidance. At times I think that Angelo just likes having him around as a play thing. I would figure Mark more the type to take over. I do have to say Angelo and Bobby have that love/hate relationship that burns hot. It’s hard not to really like this series. There’s something wicked in it that you just can’t pull yourself away.

[Badh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oh my, Angelo. Angelo, Angelo, Angelo, what are we going to do with you? Or more likely, what are you going to do to us?

In this story, we get more of Angelo's background and what made him what he is. After reading this, I am closer to understanding Angelo. Not that it will ever be possible to understand a man who is this twisted, tricksy, devious, and deviant. He thinks ahead to every possibility and has plans A-Z in place for every eventuality. He knows what Bobby and Mark are going to do before they even think of doing it. I always wonder if he's making them do it because it works to their personality or if it's their personality and he is adjusting what he does to them. We'll never know because Angelo will never tell us.

I can't wait for another House of Vitali story. I love Angelo. I just hope he doesn't do to me what he did to Bobby if he hears that.

[Stella Gladden · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love, lost and power...

This was another great addition to the House of Vitali. To finally know what made Angelo into a person filled with so much love, hate and revenge. To have something so tragic happen to you, would make anyone go insane and vengeful. I felt sorry for Angelo, when he lost the love of his life in such a brutal way. Which made him into the person he is now, so full of hate and vengeance. The two men he now have in his life, both love and hate him with a vengeance. They feel this way because, of the way he treats them, and won't admit his true feeling for them. It's when you know that loving someone doesn't make you weak or venerable, but make you more powerful, when the love is returned. I hope in the next book, he finally admit to how much he really love and cares about them.

[Renee · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have loved the entire House of Vitali series, but this one really shines. It had the darkness, depravity and yet the heart Loki Renard so magically intertwines in her words.

The character development blew me anyway with this. It is the missing piece of the puzzle, the perfect final touch. To finally know more about Angelo was phenomenal. The world building was solid and consistent with the rest of the series.

Most of all the storyline was flawless. It is everything I could have wanted delivered. I don't want to let go of these characters even more now because the author brought them to life so completely. Being able to show heart in darkness takes a special skill and Loki Renard masters it.

5 stars for a deliciously dark delight.

[Rose Howse · Rating 5 out of 5]

We learn that Angelo does love and has known love that helped mold him into the man he is now. Angelo lost his parents at a tender age and learned how to provide for himself and be a man to fear.
Bobby loves Angelo but is not allowed to say that to him! Mark is still odd man out, but holds sway over Bobby with Angelo's permission. What I liked the most about this story is, Angelo does what he thinks is the right thing to do and does it in his own unique but brutal way. I can appreciate the way he thinks and I love him even more, now that I have learned where his whole persona started and why. My heart broke when Angelo recognized the ring he gave Antonio. Bobby's claim that, it didn't begin well, it didn't middle well, why should it end well, said it all.

[Terri Trawets · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loki Renard has been one of the few authors who are able to capture my soul with her words. This book is no exception. OMG!!! It is so good.

When you are describing how a monster was made, there must be horrific occurrences. Loki skillfully coerced and lured me to the very edge of that horrifying precipice, where she coerced my own imagination to experience the plummet.

When I read Loki’s stories, I am entirely transported to a different time and place, where I feel things I never thought I would or could. Thank you, Loki!

[Wickedly Sweet & Synful Book Blog Synclare Moss · Rating 5 out of 5]

Angelo is the prequel to House of Vitali series!
Holy shiitake mushrooms. FANTASTIC prequel.
Must read prequel/series for 2018!
#Ilovegaymenpornbooks

Plot~ 5/5
Main Characters (hero/heroine)~ 5/5
Secondary Characters~ 5/5
The Feels~ 5/5
Pacing~ 5/5
Addictiveness~5/5
Angst~ 5/5
Steam/Hotness/Chemisty ~ 5/5
Theme or Tone~ 5/5
Flow (Writing Style)~ 5/5
Backdrop (World Building)~ 5/5
Originality~ 5/5
Ending~ 5/5
Book Cover~ nice
Series~ Prequel to House of Vitali series
Source~ Bookfunnel

Would I read more from the author? Yes
Would I recommend this book? Hell yes

[Oz007 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice short story

The story is a short reflective read based on events when Angelo was 25. It's good to understand some of the catalysts behind Angelo's determination and cold hearted domination. There's undertones of violence, however nothing overtly described and we just get to read about the final 'situation' i.e.death. Bobby is focused heavily in his present day character, whereas Mark is a bit of a spare part: custodian role. Overall, it's good background read and goes nicely with the 3 books in the series.

I read via KU.

[Rhonda Hicks · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm sitting here in a daze. What I thought I knew, what I thought I expected, what I thought I felt are definitely NOT what I ended with. Loki Renard has painted a virtual picture of the Vitali world and family that I certainly wasn't expecting but one that played out within my mind like a movie. 'Angelo' has pulled emotions from me that I truly did not expect to feel for this "monster" or their "family". This is an outstanding book.

[Twilla Wickedly Sweet and Synful Book Blog · Rating 5 out of 5]

I received this ARC for an honest review. I am not really into M/M but gave it a try. I’ve only ever read this genre once and I was traumatized. The story was so engrossing that I read it in one sitting. Angelo is a brutal bastard and this story takes you into the beginning of it all. I recommend this story.

[Saskia · Rating 4 out of 5]

A novella in the House of the Vitali series. In this story we get to more background of Angelo and how he became the man he is now.

It was interesting to see the change in Angelo and also why he was so interested in Bobby. I went for hating to liking him again all in one short story.

I want more books in this series.

[Bex’s reading corner · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had no clue what I was getting into when I got this book. All I knew was it’s the first time I’d be reading this author, all though my feed was full of everyone reading criminal by same author, and that it was a M/M mafia book.

I was shocked and surprised and that was just a few pages in! This book did not play out at all like I expected it to, it was much better then I could have hoped for!

I was disappointed that it seemed to end quick for my liking but when reading the authors after notes, am happy to find this is a prequel and that there is three books already out in the series that I can sink my teeth into! Can’t wait!!

[Rachel Dunlap · Rating 5 out of 5]

Insightfully Dark

What forces a man to become a monster? Just one 4 letter word does.
Finally we are able to see what caused Angelo to become the man that built the House of Vitali.
Amazing story!

[Ilene G> · Rating 4 out of 5]

A dark romance. A dark story, in general.

This is about how Angelo became a human monster. It is dark and disturbing. I like how it shows how he became this way, and how it affects his actions in the present. He is a man who shows no mercy to his enemies or love to his lovers.

[DMA · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow - intense.

On the surface this may seem like just a dark twisted tale - well it is, but it's also a story about love. Ok, love which has been forged in the fires of a sick brutal past but love all the same!
Awesome compelling writing!

[Linda.. aka Ahsoka · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love seeing this side of Angelo

Knowing how he came to be, the pain of loss.. I can understand him more, which makes me want more. I don't ever want to see Angelo redeemed...but I absolutely love seeing him admit that he is capable of love.

[Julie Wickedly Sweet & Synful Book Blog · Rating 5 out of 5]

I fell in love with Angelo

Nice short story. The past of Angelo and his path to the top full of love, hate, and revenge. It made me go back and read the entire series.

[JenMcJ · Rating 2 out of 5]

There wasn't much to this book. It was okay.

[jaxnsmom · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars

[Shel Griffin · Rating 3 out of 5]

It’s good to know more

I liked this series from the start. Its good to know more about Angelo and to see his pain. This is a solid prequel to the series.

[lettylaunica · Rating 4 out of 5]

Entertaining

Fast paced read with action and Dark themes, would have like a little bit more of steaminess but this is a new subgenre for me.

[art.e · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 tal vez por ser lo final.

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Bueno, los voy a extrañar mucho.