*~*Love Notes: Nico to Elira – Light My Fire by Jessica Ruben*~*

Title: Light My Fire (Sex. Rock. Mafia Series Book #1)
Author: Jessica Ruben
Genre: Contemporary Romance

He saved me from war.Fed me when I was in too much pain to eat. 

Smuggled me and my family into America when it became too dangerous to stay. 

But, Nico didn’t flee with us.While I began elementary school in the United States, he was building the greatest and toughest Mafia of the century. 

The Mafia Shqiptare. 

Nico is now King of all underground trades. 

Sexy. Aggressive. Brilliant. 

After years of nothing but silence, he’s back in my life, 

Ready to do whatever it takes to bring me into his universe. 

He isn’t leaving until he takes me with him.

Nico’s Love Note is a little…different

Keep reading to see the full Love Note!

Dear Elira,

I just got your latest letter. There’s no way in hell I’m going to send you a reply. I’m just writing this because I feel like somehow, if I put it down on paper, maybe the universe will hear it and send a message to you.

Don’t be mad by my silence. I get all your letters and they’re more important to me than you will ever know. I can just picture your angry face, with your nose scrunching up in that cute way. You probably think you’ve lived a heavy enough life in your thirteen years and even though you’re technically young, you think you’re old. But I don’t want you to be old. I want you to be young and to live your life. And I’m doing some dangerous shit these days. The last thing I want to do is connect to you what I’ve got going on. There’s no room right now for any kind of entanglement other than men ready to serve my crew or a woman paid to do things…the kind of things a kid like you should have nothing to do with.

The dangerous world I live in is one I can’t ever leave. I guess living through the war got me so deep in the underground, there’s no way out anymore. I’m six feet under and covered in dirt. But for you, there can be life in the sun. So don’t hold your breath for any reply because it isn’t happening. I care too much about you to do that.

Anyway, you said you’re having trouble making friends with the girls in school. Your accent is embarrassing you. No one knows where Albania is, so you lied and told them a place in Italy. I laughed out loud at that. People can be so fucking stupid. Tell your teachers to open up a map every once in a fucking while.

All I can tell you is that it’s never easy being an outsider. But you’re young. Your accent will continue to soften with time and you’ll assimilate. Mine is still strong, but I don’t give a fuck. I think it scares people, actually. The unknown. What I want to tell you is that it’s okay to be different. People may all be equal in the eyes of the almighty, but that doesn’t mean that we have to be the same. Who we are and where we come from and the shit we’ve seen…it makes us different, and that’s okay. You don’t have to erase those moments of your past no matter how difficult they were. Even if you tried to drown the memories, your truth always finds a way out. So it’s best to just stare it in the face and say: okay, you’re here. You’re part of me. Let’s find a way to live together. Because Elira, if you try to bury that shit, it’ll come up and slap you upside the head. Trust me—I know.

So be strong. Be yourself. Get good grades and live in the sun. And find a way to come to terms with your past life. You’re smart. You’ll find a way to coexist with both sides of yourself.

Universe, if you could send her this message…I’d appreciate it. I know you think I should be in hell for the shit I’ve done. But Elira shouldn’t suffer anymore. Not by my hands or by anyone else’s.

-Nico

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Jessica Ruben lives and works in New York City, where she spends her days dominating in the court room as an attorney. Come nightfall, she writes romances centering on gorgeous alpha males and the intelligent women who love them.

Jessica is an insatiable reader, and will devour a few books a week without batting an eyelash. Books have always been her drug of choice, and she has no plans on detox anytime soon. She has three wildly delicious children and a husband who, for reasons unimaginable to her, loves her brand of crazy.