Recaptured by the Crime Lord (Crime Lord Series Book 2) Kindle Edition

This was a roller coaster of emotions… and I can’t wait to read book 3!This book takes place 18 months after the end of book 1, when Lyla was recovering from basically dying after she was brutally attacked and she witness first-hand the death of Manny (😩😩😩MANNYYYYY 🥺🥺🥺). She and Carmen, who lost the love of her life Vinny, have been changing their identities, working different jobs, switching and moving from place to place, all to continue outrunning not only Gavin, but the people that want her dead.Both Carmen and Lyla are different now. Life’s been cruel to both of them and both carry scars from it all. Lyla not only carries emotional scars, but physical and psychological ones as well. All seems to be going well, until she comes back from her daily run and finds Gavin in front of the cabin she’s been living in. So what does she do?Well she runs of course 🤷🏻‍♀️. Except… Gavin catches her 😈 and pins her 👀 and forces her to marry him 😉. Sigh. Good job Gavin 😅.What I liked/loved:—how OBSESSED… like seriously… O B S E S S E D Gavin is with Lyla. Jesus Christ. He can’t stop spying on her, touching her, having her near him, watching her. Why? Well, he’s…—over OVER… O👏🏻V👏🏻E👏🏻R protective of Lyla. He’s worse than a helicopter mom. Worse than a momma bear. This man hears her sneeze and he wants to make sure she’s okay. Like. For reals y’all. He’s OTT about it all… And I loved it 🥹🥰. I mean. It makes sense. He f’ed up in book 1 (😑😑😑), so he has to make A LOT of amends to his f up 🤷🏻‍♀️. Plus. Her life is literally on the line. I completely understand his OTTness—Gavin’s regret for what he’s done in the past is sincere. We get his POV that really showcases his turmoil in what he’s done. Not only before he abducted Lyla in book 1 but what happened when she was recovering from her life-threatening injuries. I felt for him- felt how regretful and remorseful he was for his behavior. And now. Well, now he’s not doing what he was doing before. Why? Because…—Lyla means EVERYTHING to him. E❤️V❤️E❤️R❤️Y❤️T H I N G❤️. He’ll sacrifice it all, his fortune, his power, his life… all for her 🥰🥹🥹🥹 SWOOOON!—his addiction and reason for living is Lyla 🥰🥹❤️. Sigh. I mean. He can’t go long without seeing her, touching her, even if it’s not smexual. She calms him down. She’s the ying to his Yang. The peanut to his butter. The cream to his cheese. The… okay okay… you guys get it. He’s nothing without her 🥹😩❤️🥰—how much Lyla has Gavin wrapped around her little finger 😈. He’s a huge, muscular man and yet she controls him with her eyes so easily 😉. Good job Lyla 💁🏻‍♀️—her insecurities😞. Listen. I don’t necessarily love that she has these, but it’s completely understandable. I got emotional when she revealed the physical scars she bears. Every time she had flashbacks were punches in my gut as well. She has the atrocities done to her and her loved ones engraved in her skin. I just wanted to hug her—BR€€DING!!! Sigh. Yaaaaasss 👏🏻👏🏻😈😈😈 you gotta do what you gotta do Gavin 💁🏻‍♀️💅which means—the smexxy times🔥. It’s very telling how much I loved this book when the 🔥 times aren’t even the first things I write about. But. My gosh. Gavin and Lyla 😅🔥. Jeeezus 💦 from their first reunion in the back of the car to the office visits to the various places anywhere and everywhere… these two were insatiable, and I was here for it all 💁🏻‍♀️😅😈🥵. Listen. Gavin had 18 months to make up for lost time, and boy, does he ever 😉—the side characters, especially Carmen. I can’t wait to read her book. I’m interested in seeing how MK gives her an HEA considering she constantly talks about her deceased hubby—BEAU 😩❤️🥰. This pit Bull stole a piece of my heart! Gahhhh! I hate how people assume the worst because of his breed, but this dog is the most faithful, most devoted dog Lyla could ever have ❤️. He’s an asset🥹—how JP Gavin is. I mean. It’s kind of implied with the first bullets, but Gavin gets jealous of any smile Lyla gives to any man… of her cousin time… of the love she has for another male- Beau- doesn’t matter that he’s a dog lol. But I actually found it kind of cute 🤣—how emotional/angsty it got. Sigh. Makes sense. So much happened and continues to happenWhat I wanted more of:—I wouldn’t have minded if Lyla have Gavin the cold-shoulder for a while longer 😑😑. What he did was f’ed up. But… the poor guy suffered a lot. He went to j a i l… but either way, making suffer even more in person would’ve been good for me 😈 bahahaha—more details in their 🔥 times. MK sure knows how to write scenes. Sometimes they were over too quick for me 😑 lol. I loved them all though

MF, no cheating/sharing, low steam, CLIFFHANGERʚl̈ɞSpOiLeR AlErTʚl̈ɞʚl̈ɞʚl̈ɞʚl̈ɞʚl̈ɞʚl̈ɞʚl̈ɞʚl̈ɞʚl̈ɞʚl̈ɞʚl̈ɞAt the end of book 1, Lyla had run from Gavin again, this time taking off with her cousin Carmen. They both had to heal from devastating wounds, Carmen of the heart with the loss of her beloved husband Vinny, and Lyla physically from an deadly attack that killed her adopted father Manny, Gavin's Dad, who she was deeply connected to and loved with all her heart.Gavin couldn't handle the death of Vinny, his cousin and best friend, and felt he died because of Gavin chose to step down from the mafia as Lyla wanted. He not only went cold to Lyla, but he cancelled their wedding.During this time Gavin also ended up in jail for a year on money laundering charges, but the minute he got out he started searching for Lyla. He was able to find her 6 months later and forced her to marry him on the spot. He had gotten out of the crime business, and hired a new COO for his company so that he could spend more time with Lyla and finally fulfill the promise of leaving the criminal world.However, the man who attacked Lyla and killed his father was still out there, no one new who he was, no one would give him up, and this kept both Lyla and Gavin on edge, even as they went on with their lives.After another terrible attack on Lyla, where some of Gavin's guards betrayed them, she demanded that Gavin go back to the world she had wanted to leave behind, and find and unalive, in the most painful way, the man who had caused so much sorrow for her and those she loved.

Oh. My. Gosh. I absolutely love this book and I am so glad I bought this entire series! Let me tell you. I love Blade and the man and friend becomes . I love how L is not naive and or timid anymore. As the book progresses she really starts to find herself and the cliff hanger is off the charts! I'm like yes! I knew it was coming and I saw it play out at the end of book one but I love how strong these characters are throughout the chaos and tragedy. I can't wait to get into book three and we see each character really develop and Mia writes these complex characters where you are just so mesmerized by but you don't really know why it who they really are. You just hold on right and enjoy the ride. Gavin is psychotic no doubt about it but crime lords like this have to be. they are raised and even breed for it. Yes L is always suckered back in and gives in to Gavin despite his mister tendencies but that is the nature of the dark romance. That is the nature of the beast of the underworld . And if you love that genre s d that dynamic then this is exactly what you want. Love against all odds. Despite the bad and regardless of rational. Is it realistic ? No of course not. But it's a fantastic read and an unbelievable ride into a fictional world that you just can't get enough of. Leaves you with four final words. BRING. ON. BOOK. THREE.

Funny how quickly Lyla forgot the reason (s) that she didn't want to be with Gavin, again. So here we go again. Gavin is a good/bad guy in the underworld as the former crime boss. Of course the reader is still in the black about who is the new sadist crime boss of Las Vegas. Now that Lyla is a very new mom, she instructs Gavin to go back to the underworld of the Mafia and kill the new crime boss because he came to close to killing her and her new child.

This is the 2nd book in the crimelord series and it is just as good as the first one. I really enjoyed seeing the 2 perspectives from both Lyla and Gavin. He is a very possessive person but when you read from his point of view you can understand why. Highly recommend this!

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This was a fantastic read. The nitty gritty, the guy getting what he wants regardless. Inspired writing, on to the next one.

The story gets even better, Lyla has been on the run for a year and half when Gavin finds her yet again and do sparks fly fantastic series . i just cant put this series down have now even bought the next 2 books

A must carry on reading, love all the characters, couldn't out it down, and would definitely recommend this author again and again