Crow Barsetti knows about me—and he doesn’t like it.

I know he’s paying his top guys to dig up every piece of dirt they can find, but I don’t care what he discovers. There’s nothing I’ve done that he hasn’t done himself. All that matters is I love his daughter—and he’s going to accept it.

I get a call in the middle of the night while Vanessa is dead asleep—and it’s him. He asks to meet in the back of one of his clubs, where we can speak without his daughter’s interruption. It’s the first time I’ve ever been nervous. Not because of who I’m meeting—but why.

The second Crow looks at me, I know exactly how this will end. “I told my daughter I would try to accept you. But looking at you now… she’s asking for the impossible. You have one chance to change my mind—one.”

Better make it count.

Buttons and Blood is the eighth installment of the Beyond Buttons Series, a bestselling alpha male, dark mafia romance.