Catherinelle by Diane Portman-Ray

For them, he was the bruiser, the assassin, the last thing you see before the bullet hits your head. He was the Albanian Monster.
For me, he’s Hugo, my brother’s best friend, and my annoying bodyguard. For me, he is Famiglia.
I knew I needed protection. I didn’t grow up as a mafia princess in the most powerful crime family in New York without learning that there’s always a gun barrel lurking in the shadows ready to aim for my head, but why did it have to be him?
Temptation, desire, and danger were pushing us together, but if my brother would find out that I was having an affair with his most trusted general, blood would be spilled and it wouldn’t be mine.
We were walking a fine line, but I was in too deep. I was the girl who fell in love with a Monster.