Watching him go is the hardest thing I've ever had to do.

"I love you, Vanessa." He said the words with ferocity in his eyes, declaring his love for me without a second thought. It was impossible to get a man like him to commit, but he did it freely. But that declaration only made me realize how wrong this relationship was. It could only end one way.

My mother set me up on a blind date, with a family friend named Matteo. I show up and try to be good company, but Bones is the one that's on my mind. I try to focus, but flashbacks of our nights together hit me like sweat on the skin. Then my phone vibrates with a text from the devil himself. He's too scrawny for you, baby. I know who you're really thinking about.

Just because I let Bones go doesn't mean he's let me go. He's a fighter—and he's going to fight for me until he gets what he wants. I've never wanted to yield so hard in my life, to surrender to a man's domination.

But I can't...

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