ECHOES OF THE PAST
Ten years of love. Ten years of
loyalty. And it all ends with a knife
to her heart.
Aria devoted her youth to Evan — a
man who whispered forever but
only craved her body. When he
betrayed her for a rich heiress, she
thought heartbreak was the worst
pain she’d ever know… until the
night he tried to erase her from
existence.
But fate has a twisted sense of
mercy. Aria wakes up ten years
earlier, lying in the same bed with
the same man who will one day
destroy her. Only this time,
something’s different. Her body is
the same, but her mind has
changed — she can hear every
filthy, selfish thought inside his
head.
This isn’t a second chance at love.
This is a second chance at revenge.
Now, with beauty, brains, and a new
supernatural gift, Aria will play the
game better than he ever could.
She’ll make him fall, she’ll make him
beg… and she’ll burn everything he
ever wanted to the ground.
But as she walks the dangerous
path of vengeance, a mysterious
stranger enters her life — someone
who’s always been in the shadows,
waiting for her to remember him.
And his thoughts? Unlike the
others, she can’t read them at all…
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Chapter: THE TRAP SPRINGSThe Dissonance Protocol hit Damian like a physical wall, disrupting the frequency he'd been using to channel The Balance's power directly. The golden aura that had made him unstoppable flickered and dimmed, and for the first time since beginning his assault, he felt vulnerable, almost human again in his limitations."Perfect," Richard's voice echoed through the facility's speakers. "The protocol is working exactly as designed. Mr. Cole, you're about to learn that cosmic power means nothing when human technology can simply turn it off."Damian forced himself back to his feet, drawing on reserves of strength that didn't require channeling external power. He still had his enhanced capabilities. Still had three years of resurrection-granted abilities even without The Balance's direct manifestation but the overwhelming force he'd been wielding was gone, replaced by something merely superhuman rather than transcendent."Activate Phase Two," Richard ordered. "Deploy all remaining artific
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Chapter: RICHARD WAS WINNINGThe journey that should have taken hours Damian covered in less than forty minutes, his enhanced speed making him almost impossible to track. He moved through the city like a force of nature, barely touching the ground, using supernatural capabilities that went far beyond what anyone had witnessed previously. Richard's facility appeared ahead, all security lights and patrolling enhanced soldiers. Damian didn't slow, didn't alter his approach to something more tactical or subtle. He simply ran directly at the perimeter fence, his body surrounded by a golden aura that marked him as something beyond normal resurrection enhancement. The fence exploded as he passed through it, metal vaporizing under the manifestation of Balance-granted power. Enhanced soldiers responded immediately, weapons raised and firing, but Damian moved too fast for them to track. He was among them before they could adjust their aim, eliminating threats with strikes that left unconscious or broken bodies in hi
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Chapter: DAMIAN'S FURYThe door closed behind him, leaving me alone with the technicians and their instruments. The monitoring equipment continued recording every physiological response, every neural pattern, every aspect of my resurrection-enhanced existence. Somewhere in the facility, Damian was fighting his way toward me, walking into the same trap I'd created through my desperate attempt at sacrifice. I'd tried to save Aunty Dora and ended up saving no one. I'd thought surrendering myself would protect the people I loved, when really it just gave Richard exactly what he wanted. Now both Damian and I would become permanent research subjects, studied and dissected until Richard understood resurrection well enough to corrupt it completely. The door burst open and Damian appeared, moving with supernatural speed to eliminate the technicians before they could react. His eyes found mine on the examination table, and the relief in his expression was immediately replaced by horror as he saw the restr
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Chapter: ARIA'S SACRIFICEThe realization of my mistake came too late to matter. Richard had anticipated everything: my desperate choice to surrender, Damian's inevitable rescue attempt, even the timing that would allow him to capture both of us simultaneously. I'd walked into his trap thinking I was making a sacrifice, when really I was just delivering exactly what he wanted. "Stand down," Richard ordered into his radio as alarms continued wailing. "Let them penetrate the outer perimeter. I want them to reach the research wing before you engage." He turned back to me with satisfaction evident in every line of his face. "Your sacrifice was touching, truly. The selfless lover trading herself for her aunt's freedom except you've miscalculated in ways you don't yet comprehend. Your aunt is leverage precisely because you care about her. Why would I release my most effective tool for controlling you?" "You promised," I said, knowing how pathetic the words sounded. "I promised to consider releasing her i
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Chapter: DAMIAN ARRIVED"By the time you read this, I'll already be gone. I've decided to surrender to Richard, but not the way he expects. I'm giving him complete cooperation, full access to study my resurrection abilities, everything he wants. In exchange, he releases Aunty Dora unharmed. I know you'll say this is stupid, that I'm sacrificing myself for nothing, that Richard won't honor his agreement. You're probably right but I have to try. She's my family, Damian. The only family I have left. I can't let her die when I have the power to save her, even if that power is just my willingness to become Richard's research subject. Don't try to rescue me. Focus everything on getting Aunty Dora out safely. That's what matters now. She deserves to live more than I deserve another chance at life. I love you, I'm sorry, And thank you for showing me what it meant to truly live during my second chance. - Aria I attached coordinates to the message, delayed sending for thirty minutes, and quietly opened
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Chapter: THE IMPOSSIBLE CHOICEThe portal to The Balance's realm hung before us like a doorway made of condensed starlight, but I couldn't make myself step through it. My hand remained clasped in Damian's, both of us frozen at the threshold while precious seconds of the countdown ticked away. "I can't do this," I said, pulling back from the portal's edge. "We don't have time for negotiations with cosmic entities. Every minute we spend arguing with The Balance is a minute closer to my aunt's death." "The Balance exists outside normal time," Veena reminded me, her golden eyes reflecting the portal's light. "What feels like hours there could be seconds here, or vice versa. You won't know until you return." "That's exactly the problem," I replied, feeling desperation claw at my composure. "We could spend what feels like moments making our case, return to find the deadline has passed and Aunty Dora is already dead. I can't take that risk." Damian's grip on my hand tightened. "Then what's your alterna
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STOLEN BY THE DON
He was a man made of sins.
She was the one mistake he couldn’t undo.
Luca Romano — the ruthless Don of the Romano crime family — has lived in the shadows for years, drowning in blood, money, and women. But beneath the armor of power lies a ghost he can’t escape: Serena, the girl who once saved his broken soul before vanishing without a trace.
Decades later, when Luca sees her again in a supermarket — the same eyes, the same delicate face — he loses control. Within hours, she’s in his mansion, locked away, his lost angel finally returned to him.
But she isn’t Serena.
She’s Sienna, Serena’s twin sister — the one thrown away, forgotten, and left to survive the streets.
Unlike her gentle twin, Sienna bites back. She curses him, fights him, and makes him question the monster he’s become.
“You think you own me, Don?” she spits.
“No, dolcezza,” he murmurs, pressing his thumb against her jaw. “I think I finally found the one woman who could destroy me.”
What begins as a twisted act of obsession turns into a war between them — a battle of wills, lust, and long-buried secrets. Because the more Luca learns about the woman he’s captured, the more he realizes:
He might have stolen the wrong twin, but he’s finally met his match.
And when the real Serena returns — sweet, innocent, and hiding a darkness he never imagined — Luca will discover the cruelest truth of all:
The angel he adored was a lie… and the devil he stole might be the only one who can save him.
“I thought you were my redemption,” he says.
“No,” she whispers. “I’m your reckoning.”
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Chapter: TRANSCENDED POSSESSION "Then we're all living on borrowed time," I said, now standing directly in front of him. "But imprisoning people doesn't change that; it just makes the time we have feel like a sentence instead of a gift." He stared at me, something vulnerable and desperate in his expression. "I don't know how to do this differently; I don't know how to care without consuming, how to want without taking - it's all I've ever known." "Then learn," I said simply. "Figure out how to want my happiness instead of just my presence; how to love without possession." "Love," he repeated the word like it was foreign, dangerous. "Is that what this is? This obsession that keeps me awake, that makes me willing to destroy everything just to keep you close?" "I don't know what this is," I admitted honestly. "But whatever it is, it's consuming both of us and we either find a way to transform it into something less toxic, or it will destroy us completely." He reached up slowly, giving me time to pull away, an
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Chapter: UNWANTED COMFORT Three nights had passed since Luca gave me freedom within the estate.Three nights of sleeping alone in his massive bed while he disappeared to other parts of the house, maintaining the careful distance he'd imposed after the kiss.I should have been grateful for the space, for the respite from his overwhelming presence; instead, I found myself lying awake, listening for footsteps that never came, wondering where he was and hating myself for caring.The art studio had become my refuge during the day; I painted obsessively, creating canvases filled with darkness and light, violence and beauty, trying to exorcise the complicated emotions churning inside me. Tonight, exhaustion finally claimed me around midnight; I fell into deep sleep, the kind that comes after days of emotional turmoil, heavy and dreamless.Until a sound woke me.At first, I thought I'd imagined it - a distant cry, muffled and distorted but then it came again, louder this time, unmistakably real.Someone was screaming
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Chapter: WHO SAVED ME?She shrugged, as if saving strangers was something she did every day. "Because it's wrong to kill people, and someone had to do something. Besides, you looked really scared, and nobody should have to be that scared." Something in her simple logic, her uncomplicated sense of right and wrong, made Luca's chest tighten."What's your name?" he asked."Serena," she said, offering a shy smile. "Serena DeLuca; what's yours?""Luca," he said, leaving off his last name initially; even at twelve, he knew the Romano name carried weight and danger, "Luca Romano."Her eyes widened slightly. Even street children knew that name, knew what it meant. "You're the Don's only son," she whispered. "The one everyone talks about.""Does that change things?" he asked, suddenly wary. "Make you regret helping me?""No," she said firmly. "You're still just a boy who needed help, it doesn't matter who your father is."They sat in comfortable silence, waiting for the rain to ease; Luca touched the cut above h
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Chapter: SIENNA IS NOT SERENA She shrugged, as if saving strangers was something she did every day. "Because it's wrong to kill people, and someone had to do something; besides, you looked really scared, and nobody should have to be that scared." Something in her simple logic, her uncomplicated sense of right and wrong, made Luca's chest tighten; he lived in a world where violence was currency, where mercy was weakness—yet here was this small girl who'd risked everything for a stranger because it was the right thing to do. "What's your name?" he asked. "Serena," she said, offering a shy smile. "Serena DeLuca; what's yours?" "Luca," he said, leaving off his last name; even at twelve, he knew the Romano name carried weight and danger. "Luca Romano." Her eyes widened slightly—even street children knew that name, knew what it meant. "You're the Don's son," she whispered. "The one everyone talks about." "Does that change things?" he asked, suddenly wary. "Make you regret helping me?" "No," she said firm
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Chapter: GUILT & OBSESSIONLuca didn't return that evening. Dinner was brought by a stone-faced guard who wouldn't meet my eyes, setting the tray down before leaving quickly, as if my presence carried some contagion. I picked at the food without appetite, my mind replaying the kiss on an endless loop. Every time I closed my eyes, I felt his hands on my waist, his lips against mine, the desperate hunger that had consumed us both. What had I done? What had I become? Night fell slowly, the suite growing dark around me. I didn't bother turning on lights, preferring the shadows that matched my mood, the darkness that felt appropriate for someone losing her grip on reality. Sleep, when it finally came, was fitful and haunted by dreams I couldn't quite remember upon waking-only the lingering sense of heat, of hands on skin, of wanting something I had no right to want. *** Luca stood in his study, staring at the amber liquid in his glass without drinking it. He'd poured it hours ago, watched it sit un
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Chapter: THE KISS THAT SHOULDN'T HAPPEN"Then explain it to me!" I shouted, weeks of frustration finally exploding completely. "Stop talking in circles and riddles and actually tell me why you're doing this, why I'm worth destroying both our lives over!" "Because you make me feel human!" He roared back, his control finally snapping. "Because when I look at you, when I'm near you, I remember what it's like to want something beyond power and revenge. You make me forget, even for a moment, that I'm a monster who's done unforgivable things." The confession hung between us, raw and bleeding. I stared at him, seeing past the armor to the broken man underneath. "That's not love, Luca," I said quietly, my anger deflating into something sadder. "That's using me as a bandaid for wounds that need real healing. I can't fix what's broken in you, can't absolve you of whatever sins keep you awake at night." "I'm not asking you to fix me," he said, his voice rough. "I'm asking you to see me, really see me, and not run fro
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