When She Learned My Name

Unilia.Nanc Romance

Toronto has two names that rule its financial skyline: VALCOR and BLAKE&CO.Gabriella Valentina grew up as the wild, clingy baby of the Valentina family, with an older brother, Gray Valentina, the young chairman of VALCOR. And Gray had one best friend who was always at their house — Fernando Blake.The sole heir of BLAKE&CO. The boy with curly dark hair who carried her on his shoulders.She was 8 when she first met him. He was 13.He was 16 when he first heard his father say, cold and quiet over the phone: “If they’re not accompany? Clean. Them.” That was the day he realized his family’s empire didn’t survive on clean business alone.On the outside, the Blakes were old money. On the inside, they were the underworld.At 25, Fernando had already had his first debut into that world. To Gray, he was still the same funny, easygoing best friend. To Gabriella, he was still the boy who spoiled her rotten.He never knew that at her own 20th birthday party, while she sneaked through the side of their villa to surprise everyone, she heard him — ordering a hit on a rival on the phone with the underworld.Since that day, she started avoiding him. And he had no idea why his little Gabriella suddenly flinched when he got close.Until one afternoon at VALCOR Tower, 42nd floor.Gabriella bursts into her brother’s office for a signature so she can finally work outside VALCOR and live her own life.“Gray!! I finished printing the documents! Can you sign—”She freezes. It’s not Gray at the desk.It’s a tall frame, wide shoulders in a black suit, familiar curly dark hair. Toronto’s lights behind him.Fernando Blake.And for the first time, he looks at her not like the little sister of his best friend — but like a man who has finally realized why she’s been running.A brother’s best friend. A mafia inheritance. And the night she learned what his name really means.

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