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Matteo Leone

Phantom Mine by Khai Hara

London Underworld series

the mafia heir who proved love at first sight isn't dead after all.

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the line that explains him

“All I think about is you. Constantly. Endlessly. Fucking, obsessively.”
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spice level: 🌶🌶🌶🌶

the book behind him

Phantom Mine

by Khai Hara

  • forbidden love
  • found family
  • mafia romance
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Tropeforbidden love / found family
Books Phantom Mine
Love languagequality time
Would he text backfuck yes.

who he is

matteo is the second son of the don.

overlooked, underestimated, and quietly carrying the kind of devotion most people spend an entire lifetime looking for.

he falls first.

he waits.

and when valentina walks back into his life, he never once questions whether she’s worth everything that comes after.

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Matteo Leone quotes

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“All I think about is you. Constantly. Endlessly. Fucking, obsessively.”

— Phantom Mine by Khai Hara
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“My life has no meaning if she’s not in it.”

— Phantom Mine by Khai Hara
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“Kissing you is like giving in to the original sin”

— Phantom Mine by Khai Hara
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