Until Tomorrow Comes
Beauty in Lies Book One
Adelaide Forrest
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Contents
About the Author
Content & Trigger Warnings
Soundtrack
I. Until Memory Fades
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
II. Until Tomorrow Comes
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Also by Adelaide Forrest
About the Author
Adelaide lives in her tiny house with her husband and two rambunctious kids. When she's not chasing all three of them and her dog around the house, she spends all her free time writing and adding to the hoard of plots stored on her bookshelf and hard-drive.
She always wanted to write, and did from the time she was ten and wrote her first full-length fantasy novel. The subject matter has changed over the years, but that passion for writing never went away.
She has a background in Psychology and working with horses, but Adelaide began her publishing journey in February 2020 and never looked back.
For more information, please visit Adelaide's website or subscribe to her newsletter.
Content & Trigger Warnings
Beauty in Lies is a DARK mafia romance series dealing with topics that some readers may find offensive or triggering. Readers of Adelaide Forrest’s Bellandi Crime Syndicate series should note that this series is much darker.
Please keep in mind the following list WILL contain specifics about the ENTIRE series and may spoil certain plot elements. Please avoid the next page if you don’t wish to know specifics.
The following scenarios are all present in the Beauty in Lies series. This list may be added to over time.
• Situations involving dubious, questionable, or nonconsent
• 13 Year Age gap, with both characters being of legal age at the time a physical relationship forms.
• Forced Pregnancy
• Branding
• Forced Marriage under threat of death & violence
• VERY graphic violence, torture, and murder
• Drug use, attempted date rape, and dubious situations while under the influence
• Kidnapping/Captive Scenarios
Soundtrack
Until Tomorrow Comes Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3tszVNZDP40H9Z6JpcWsoV?si=VwqyL-7dQTynZ09_OJV0DQ
“Snake Charmer” – Jiovanni Daniel
“Jekyll & Hide” – Bishop Briggs
“Run Baby Run” – 2WEI
“Devil’s Gonna Come” – Raphael Lake
“Cold Blooded” – UNSECRET
“Hunt You Down” – The Hit House
“The Time of Our Lives” – The Venice Connection
“Love It” – UNSECRET
“Can’t Help Falling In Love with You” – Tommee Profitt
“Sentenced to Death” – Colossal Trailer Music
“Paint It, Black” – Ciara
“Wicked Game” Ursine Vulpine
“Stimulated” – UNSECRET
“Walk” – Saint Chaos
“Causing Love” – RAIGN
“Born for This” – Manafest
“Talk To Me” – Apocalyptica, Lzzy Hale
“Die Trying” – New Medicine
“I’m So Close I can Taste It” – Graffiti Ghosts
“Champions” – Kurt Hugo Schneider
“Hate You” – Jim Yosef
“Pray” – Egzod
“Nightmare” – Besomorph
“Tonight is the Night I Die” – Palaye Royale
“Feeling Great” – Sdms
“Silence” – Cemre Emin
“The Heresy” – Mushroomhead
“Chemicals” – The Glitch Mob
“Appetite” – Casey Edwards
“Dancing with the Devil” – Kitty Antix
“Prisoner” – Raphael Lake
“Omens” – UNSECRET
“Wolf Totem” – The HU
“The Devil You Know” – Blues Saraceno
“Darkness Below” – Red Moth
“Shine” – Matt Beilis
“Kiss the Devil” – Bel Heir
“Make Me Believe” – The EverLove
“LOVELOST” – Margo
“Blinding Lights” – The Weeknd
“Losing You” – UNSECRET
“The rainy road” – Rahul
“Baby, I’m jealous” – Bebe Rexha
“Man’s World” – MARINA
“Revolution Bones” – Paolo Buonvino
“Riverbound” – Comaduster
“The Devil is a Gentleman” – Merci Raines
“Devil’s At Your Door” – SWARM
“Odds Are” – The FifthGuys
“Origin” – Besomorph
“Dark in my Imagination” – Of Verona
“Vanguard” – Jo Blakenburg
“We Are the Darkness” – Rok Nardin
“Alpha” – Little Destroyer
“Devil in Disguise” – EMM
“Get My Way” – Vosai
“Killer” – Valerie Broussard
“Murky” – Saint Mesa
“Sweet Dreams” – Dexter
“Every Breath You Take” – Chase Holfelder
“Coma” – Ash Graves
Part I
Until Memory Fades
If you’ve already read the prologue novella, Until Memory Fades, then you can skip directly to Until Tomorrow Comes. If not, the prologue is included for your convenience and is necessary to understand the relationship between Rafael and Isa.
1 Rafael
Sixteen months ago.
The greatest shock didn’t come from walking up to a building stained with blood and tears, but from the cold and stark weather as snow drifted over the frozen ground.
Why did anyone insist on living in a place where the air hurt their face? And where the fuck was the sun?
The warehouse loomed in front of us as we left the rich, comforting warmth of the Ferrari. The massive structure might have blended in with the other abandoned commercial properties in the area, had it not been surrounded by an eerie feeling of death. Even in a graveyard for buildings, nothing could disguise the ghosts that lurked around Bellandi's famed warehouse. I didn't know that I believed in spirits, despite my mother's belief in the afterlife, but even I felt all the tortured souls who clung to this place where they had drawn their final breaths.
It certainly didn't help that they'd probably choked on their own blood as they fought for air.
An ordinary person might have wondered how Matteo conducted his wet work in such an obvious location without fear of repercussions, too lost in their grand illusions of being safe in their first world country, where crime couldn't happen to them and bad things only happened to strangers in the night.
Most people were naïve enough to believe the police could ever truly be a threat to men like us.
Then again, most people were fucking idiots.
At my side, Calix ran a hand through his hair, looking just as aggravated as I imagined he had to feel. While fighting in Matteo Bellandi's war was a necessary duty born out of allegiance, nothing could stop the impatience that came with knowing only a ticking clock stood between him and the girl he'd pledged
