Seven years ago he ran from the clan that killed his father. Today a courier leaves a charter at his archive door, and his body knows the scent on it before his mind does. The Don who signed it is the man he was bonded to in a chapel at twenty-one.
Gioele Lanzetta has been Giorgio the translator for seven years. He lives in a mountain village above Padua, working in an archive owned by a man he does not trust, in a language he stopped speaking the night he walked out of the Branciforte clan with his life and a scent he could not yet name. He has kept the pregnancy hidden for six of those years. His son has grown up calling Signora Brunetti Nonna and calling the translator who brought Gioele north his father. Gioele has not told his son the truth, because the truth would put his son in the ground.
Orso Branciforte is the Don of the Branciforte clan now. His father has finally died of the heart that beat everyone else half to death for forty years, and Orso has come home to a consigliere brother, a council of older men, and a charter that has been sitting in a northern archive for seven winters waiting for him to sign it. He signs it. He does not know what signing it will do. The scent that catches him at the threshold of an alpine archive two weeks later is the scent he has not smelled since the night of a bonding he did not consent to and a courtyard at three in the morning when his father handed him a whip and told him to teach his brother a lesson.
Gioele does not run. He picks up the charter.
He has a son. He does not say so yet.
A rival Chiaramonte clan has already moved on the northern archive. The Branciforte council is voting on formal bonding without consent. And the consigliere brother who spent seven years looking for Orso's omega is about to find out that the bond he has been quietly protecting was never really broken.
Marked by the Mob Alpha is a full-length standalone MM Mpreg Shifter Mafia Romance with HEA and no cliffhanger. Contains dark themes and mature MM content, and a bond that rewrites clan law.
