BKFUNNEL/Mafia Devil’s Secret Baby: A Mafia Romance (Vegas Vows + Vendettas Book 3) Willa Wilde

 Kept me Involved. The story starts out with Nina running from danger in the restaurant in the casino in Vegas where she works. She recognizes danger when it walks in the door and she knows it's looking for her. Years in foster care made her hyper alert to the dangers ! Alessio spots her running through the casino and decides to help her when she gets trapped in the alley behind that building. He WAS going to just help her and let her go but when he finds out her troubles, he surprises them both with the outrageous offer of one night in his bed ! He's hot, sexy and she finds herself attracted so she goes with this stranger; something she's never done before ! Nina's ex-husband Eric Newell, is vicious, a wife beater and his trouble just keeps following her. She hopes this is the end of it ! Then 7 years later, we see Nina with her son, Austin a cute six year old who all of a sudden collapses while playing soccer. He's adorable, smart, funny and she will do anything for him !!! So when her best friend Keisha, reluctantly offers a job idea, Nina follows up on working at a strip club...stripping ! She needs the money for her son. Wouldn't you just know it? Alessio no longer works the casino but now it's the very strip club that she is working at now. Things get extremely tense as she learns her "craft" and tries to hide Austin from Alessio. Alessio has his standards for the strip club but so does Nina. They also can't keep their hands off each other either; although they do try ! She's tough and I really liked how she expressed herself. She was gentle with her friend Keisha and Austin but tough with Alessio because heck, she survived foster care. She might get scared but she's been alone for a very long time, she can handle just about anything ! It will be danger when the Russians make their moves against the mafia but Alessio ISN'T alone. He's got friends ! Intensity ramps up even more towards the end, there will be some Mafia murders. Great Epilogue ! Some dangers remain because of the Russian Bratva but that's for another day.