I had one never look back.Then Hawkes Rizzo showed up to collect his debt. Good He finally found me.Bad I’m the payment. One reckless night. A stolen bottle of tequila. A lie that destroyed everything.My best friend took the fall. I never saw her again. Now her ex-convict father is out of prison, six-foot-four of vengeance and sin, and he’s here for answers.He doesn’t forgive. He doesn’t forget. And he doesn’t believe in mercy. Running won’t save me. Begging won’t work.The only way out?On my knees. In the back alley of a club. At his mercy. GUILT & PAISLEY is an 18+ dark mafia novella featuring knife play, an ex-con antihero, and an all-consuming, so-wrong-it’s-right obsession. Ends on a cliffhanger—read at your own risk.