For eleven years, Marco Vitale has stood at Dante Bellacroce's side. He knows what Dante needs before Dante asks. He knows every tell, every silence, every way the man holds himself when something is wrong. He has spent a decade being indispensable and calling it friendship.
When he discovers a credible threat on Dante's life, he does the only logical thing: he disappears. Stages his own death. Draws the danger away from the one person he cannot afford to lose.
He does not account for what Dante will do when he finds out.
Dante Bellacroce does not grieve quietly. He hunts. And eleven years of knowing a man means eleven years of knowing exactly where to look.
Trapped together in a Montauk safe house with a threat still circling and a night no one has explained, they are running out of room to pretend. Marco built an entire life around protecting Dante from everything, including himself. He never considered that staying might be the braver choice.
Stay is the first book in the Bellacroce Family Series. Dark world. Slow burn. MM romance. Explicit.