Secret Surrogate to the Mafia King

Vanessa Peters's boyfriend owes money, so she goes to a clinic to sell her eggs and settle it. A mistake at the clinic leaves her pregnant instead. She finds out around the same time that the boyfriend has been sleeping with someone else, and she decides to have the baby. Then she learns who the father is. Marcello Lavigne runs a criminal empire and has killed to keep it. Word gets around that she is carrying mafia money, and men come for her; Marcello gets there first and takes her back to his estate whether she agrees or not. He keeps proving that he will stand between her and whoever comes next, including people inside his own family, and Vanessa's feelings toward him shift despite everything she knows about him and the string of women behind him. He wants her to raise the child with him and to take her place at the head of the empire.