hearthiddlest 's review for:

Be With Me by Gabrielle Sands

4.5

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"She was just a target."
Just a target.
A target.
She was, in fact, not just a target.

Would you feel these kinds of things for your target? When he knows she’s off-limits, she’s the enemy. He needs to get all kinds of leverage to bring her father down to finally understand why he wants revenge now, after all these years. Why now, specifically?

This book had me in a chokehold. The tension between these two is so damn thick I screamed when they finally kissed. I loved the mystery aspect of the story beside everything else. I mean, who wouldn’t want to read about enemies to lovers, where they both have vulnerabilities they don’t want to show, but that come out anyway?

“I swallowed. Good girls didn’t sleep with gangsters. But maybe I was tired of being good.”

Mia she’s strong and so selfless. She’s ready to lose everything just to make sure the people she loves will be okay. But that costs her. When she starts to care about Romolo, knowing he’s after her father will she follow her heart or the guilt that eats at her when she doesn’t put everyone else first?

“More time to be with you.”
“To be with me?…”

Romolo he’s ruthless. Focused. Calculated. Goddamn, I understand why Mia would actually risk everything for just a taste. He doesn’t deal well with emotions. He tries to push them to the back of his heart so they won’t surface, but they do. And they clash with his mind, especially when he sees Mia his target.
Every time he looked at her, something in him shifted. The mission blurred. His rules changed.

This was my first book by the author, and it definitely won’t be my last. Her writing is addictive and full of tension. I liked how she balanced the plot and the characters development, I can’t wait to read about the rest of the brothers especially Alessio.