Chapter: Chapter 7: First Night alone Judith's POV Einstein wakes me with his hungry cry around three in the morning. I pull him close on the bare mattress because the room is cold and the only cover we have is the hotel duvet that still smells like Mike.Well, I hate it but I use it anyway. I feed him while I sit with my back against the wall and he falls asleep again the second he is full. I lay him down gently then sit there staring at nothing because sleep will not come back.I keep hearing Keith’s slap, Mike saying my real name and Regina laughing the day she pushed me. My cheeks are wet before I even notice I am crying but I keep the sound inside so the baby stays asleep. When the tears stop, I wipe my face on the duvet and count the ten thousand dollars one more time under the streetlight that comes through the blinds. I slide the envelope back under the mattress and tell myself tomorrow, I will fix everything.Morning comes fast and Einstein is up again at seven demanding milk so I feed him and change him. I put
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Chapter: Chapter 6: Starting over JUDITH LARSSON I snatch Einstein out of Mike’s arms and hold him so tight against my chest because I’m scared someone will take him again and this time I won’t get him back. He is warm and he smells like milk and he is the only thing that still feels real. Mike stands there with his hands half-raised and his mouth open and he looks at me like I’m the one who broke everything. “Judith, please, just listen for one second.” “No,” I say and my voice comes out flat and hard and I like it that way because I don’t want him to hear how much I’m shaking inside. “You don’t get to talk. You don’t get to call me baby. You threw me out, remember? You chose Regina, remember? You told me the baby I lost wasn’t worth keeping the marriage and then you pushed me down those stairs.” Keith steps closer and his face is red and ugly and I see the slap he gave me minutes ago still burning in his eyes. “Louisa, you’re confused, come home with me and we’ll fix this.” I turn to him and I laugh but it’s n
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Chapter: Chapter 5Judith's POV Morning dawned within a blink of an eye and even before I could open my eyes, my phone rang loudly..“Who the hell is that after a pleasurable night?” I mumbled, rolling to Keith's side of the bed but there were really no signs of him anywhere.“Babe?.." I called, opening my eyes at that moment but he was still absent..“In the bathroom?.." I spoke again, but still, no response came.I sighed, reaching for the device in my bag whose sounds were too loud for my liking. I'd actually placed the bag right beside the bed last night so it was easier to reach for it.Surprisingly, Keith was the caller and with furrowed brows, I swiped green..“Why calling when we ---”“Where the hell are you, huh? I waited all night but you never showed up. Do you know the extent I went in getting hard!",he yelled fiercely and angrily My heart skipped a beat and I immediately sat up properly.What the hell was he saying?.. didn't we just spend the night together?“What are you talking about?..
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Chapter: Chapter 4 ♣A YEAR LATER♣JUDITH LARSSONI'd received Keith's letter at work that morning and its content gave me so much happiness and joy..We were consummating our marriage for the first time since I survived my accident today.. and yes, he promised to make it a romantic one in a hotel room!.He had claimed to have developed a problem with erection before we got married and our child was gotten through IVF... starving me of intimacy since he claimed to be my husband.“You were aware of this before you lost your memories and the vacuum was the thousandth option I settled for to help me get hard but it never worked..” Forgetting those words of his was impossible, because he says that each time I craved for his touch on the days my hormones got me horny..Did I believe him??..Yes of course, or does an amnesia patient have an option than believing ... even lies?..I ascended the hotel stairs with my four-month old baby, who was sitting comfortably in the baby carrier I was using, right on my ch
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Chapter: Chapter 3MIKE CARSON“Every couple planning to get married runs several tests!” I gave Regina's words a retort in frustration and all she could respond with was an annoying laughter..“Did you just say every couple?.." she paused to laugh again.“Well, not ours.. because that's so unnecessary” she smirked, lighting a cigar stick which one could regard as something she was obsessed with due to her regular intake of it..“So unnecessary?.. you're insane” I let out more words in frustration.She's had been a headache for the past five weeks and also the main reason why our wedding preparations were this slow.“Nothing is necessary to you, who behaves that way, huh? We agreed just this morning to go to the hospital for the tests after I pick you up from the spa and now you're changing your words?.. What's the meaning of that". I made more lamentations while she puffed out smoke from her mouth and ears, making me feel a bit choked in the car.I had to turn on the car's AC because the traffic jam k
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Chapter: Chapter TwoJUDITH LARSSONI woke up with a blank head --- with no single memory of myself nor where I was coming from.All I noticed were a series of wires connected to my body and a faint smell of some clinical fluids, but the room wasn't looking like a hospital ward..“An home treatment" I found myself muttering for no reason as I kept trying to remember at least a thing about myself, but nothing changed.Wait..I didn't even know my name!..“What the --” I was interrupted by the sudden opening of the door and I totally went speechless when a tall man walked in with another lady who obviously was a doctor judging from the stethoscope around her neck.“You're awake!" The man exclaimed, walking over to me with so much excitement obvious in his expression.I gave him a ‘Do I even know you?’ expression with my brows scrunched up.Nothing about him was familiar, not even his face and at a point I feared that I'd been kidnapped from somewhere or maybe... sold?..I shook away the thoughts..It didn'
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Love Amidst Shadows: A Mafia Romance Story
"I need you to stay here, spy on Leonardo. Feed me information on his every move."
"A spy?" I repeated.
"Yes," he said. "We'll use your proximity to our advantage. You'll be my eyes and ears inside the estate.”
“Agreed.”
Genna , a vulnerable witness to her brother's brutal murder, is sold into slavery to the notorious Sorrento family—the same clan that killed her brother. Their lives become linked when Genna meets Leonardo Sorrento, the family's enigmatic Mafia Lord.
However, Marco, Leonardo's vicious twin brother, manipulates Genna and ensnares her in a web of deceit. Torn between revenge and love, Genna must face the dark legacy of the Sorrento family and her own destiny. As she makes her way through this dangerous terrain, her love for Leonardo ignites a passion that threatens to consume them. But will their love withstand the secrets, lies, and the mafia's deadly grasp, or will Genna 's quest for justice and redemption tear them apart?
Will the memories of Genna 's past destroy their chance for happiness, or will their love serve as a ray of hope in the shadows?
Baca
Chapter: Chapter 64Leonardo's POV I woke up slow with pain shooting through my shoulder sharp and hot while my head throbbed hard from the bat hit.My arms felt heavy from chains binding my wrists behind my back. I tried to move but the metal bit into my skin and the floor under me stayed cold and hard so I groaned low because blood still seeped warm from the wound and soaked my shirt. The room stayed pitch black with no light at all coming from anywhere and I felt the dark press in close like walls closing so my breath came fast and shallow while panic rose quickly in my chest.I pulled at the chains again but they held firm and I slammed my head back against the wall hard because the dark triggered everything. From when I was a kid and Marco locked me in the wine cellar for hours with no light and no sound except my own crying. I remembered the first time he did it when we were eight and he laughed outside the door while I begged him to let me out because the black felt alive and swallowing and I s
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Chapter: Chapter 63Leonardo's POV I sat in my study that evening with the lamp on low and the whiskey glass empty on the desk while I stared at papers without reading them. My mind kept going back to Denise's words from this morning about Adriana planning the kidnap and the footage Bruno sent confirming every detail. I felt anger sit heavy in my chest but I pushed it down for now because I needed to plan how to handle her without starting a war with her father. The house stayed quiet outside with Denise asleep early and the guards on their rounds so I poured another drink to steady my hands.A knock came softly at the door and one guard stepped in with an envelope in his hand. “This came anonymously at the gate,” he said, handed it to me, and left quietly when I nodded.I looked at the plain white envelope with no name except mine in handwriting I did not know and my heart beat faster for no reason I could name. I opened it slowly, pulled out the photo inside, felt my breath stop when I saw Genna ch
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Chapter: Chapter 62Leonardo's POV I sat in my study that evening with the coffee gone cold on the desk while I stared at the phone waiting for Bruno to call back with the footage. Denise's words from earlier kept playing in my head and I needed proof before I accused Adriana of something so bad. The room felt quiet with only the clock ticking on the wall and the rain starting soft outside so I paced to the window, looked out at the garden where Denise usually played but stayed empty now because she kept to her room more since the kidnap. I thought about her small face when she told me Adriana hugged the bad man and paid him and my stomach twisted because if it was true, I let a monster into my home.The phone rang fifteen minutes later and Bruno's voice came through rough. “I have the footage boss,” he said. “I’m sending it now. It's from a camera across the street from the warehouse. Though, you won't like it.”I opened the video on my laptop fast with my hands steady but my heart beating hard. The
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Chapter: Chapter 61Leonardo's POV I sat in my study that morning with papers spread on the desk and coffee gone cold beside me because I tried to work on the alliance details with Don Salvatore but my mind kept wandering to Genna and where she could be now. The ring on Adriana's finger flashed in my head every time I looked at my own hand and I felt doubt creep in slowly because marrying her felt right for business but wrong in my gut. I rubbed my eyes tired from no sleep, picked up the pen again, and tried to focus on the numbers.The door opened soft and Denise peeked in with her hair in braids and her favorite blue dress on. She walked slowly to the desk, climbed into the big chair opposite me, and sat with her legs swinging.“Morning Uncle Leo,” she said quietly.I set the pen down fast, leaned forward because she rarely came to my study alone these days. “Morning sweetheart,” I said, smiling real because seeing her always helped a little. “What’s up?”She looked at her hands in her lap, twisted
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Chapter: Chapter 60Genna's POV I sat against the cold wall in the dark basement where Marco kept me chained with my wrists sore from the metal and my body aching from the hard floor because days blurred together without any light to tell morning from night. I tried to count time by the meals they shoved through the slot but even that felt useless now with the bread stale and the water warm from sitting. I dozed when I could but sleep came fitful with dreams of Leonardo's face turning away in hate and Denise calling for me in the dark so I woke crying more often than not. My mind wandered back to the estate every hour with memories of warm beds and hot meals and arms around me at night but the cold here reminded me those days were gone forever.I thought about escaping a hundred times while I lay there pulling at the chains until my skin broke but the metal stayed strong and the door stayed locked. I screamed for help the first few days until my voice went hoarse but no one came except the silent gu
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Chapter: Chapter 59Leonardo's POV I woke up that morning with the sun coming through the curtains and my bed feeling too big because Genna’s side stayed empty and cold since she left. I lay there a minute thinking about how quiet the house felt without her laugh or her footsteps or her voice calling Denise downstairs. I missed the way she made breakfast messy but happy with flour on her nose and Denise giggling while they cooked together. I missed her hugs when Denise fell asleep on her lap and the way she looked at me like I could do no wrong. Three days passed since Adriana brought Denise home and I tried to forget Genna because the men who took Denise said she and Marco sent them and that made the hate stronger than the missing. I told myself she was gone for good and I needed to move on.I got up, showered, dressed in black pants and a shirt, and went to the kitchen for coffee. Adriana was already there pouring her own cup with her hair tied back and a smile when she saw me. She sat beside me at
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Masuk
