Shattered Vows

To love and to be loved just the same is a hard thing to find.”

“Piccola ragazza, you think so little of me that it actually pains me. I’m never going to hurt you. I’d kill for you. You’re my family now. Your life is precious, love. It’s safe with me. But the men around you? I’d put a bullet through their skulls faster than you could murmur daddy.”

big, masculine men showing love set off an internal beacon for women?