No Ring, No Vows

Cara Delgado patches up mafia men in the ER and never writes their real names. Emilio Bruno has bled in her ward three times a year for six years and never once said thank you. When her brother's debt comes due, Emilio offers a solution: a marriage on paper only. Filed at city hall. No ring, no vows, no consummation. One year, then void. Cara agrees, because it's the only way her brother keeps his hands. What she doesn't know is that Emilio has been paying her brother's debts for two years, and this marriage is the last box he has to check before he takes his father's seat. What he doesn't know is that Cara has never asked anyone for anything, and she isn't about to start now. Nine months of coffee, kitchen-table stitches, and no touching. Then the rival crew files to void the marriage, the funeral turns into a gunfight, and the only way Emilio can save her is to make the whole thing real. He asks. She says no. She says it twice.