Healing The Devil I Once Loved
Zaria’s world fell apart the day she learned she was pregnant. That same day, she also discovered the truth about her marriage: her husband, Renzo, had married her only to give his Mafia family an heir. The woman he truly wanted, Elix, could not have children—so Zaria had been used in her place.
Afraid she would lose her baby and be pushed aside, Zaria made a desperate choice. She drugged Renzo and disappeared without a trace.
Eight years passed. Zaria rebuilt her life in China and became known as the “Healer,” a respected expert in Traditional Chinese Medicine. When she was ordered to take a temporary job in New York, she agreed only because she had no choice. She planned to stay for five months and then leave forever.
But her new patient turned out to be the least person she expected, Renzo, her ex-husband.
He had used a fake name, to book her services. Zaria refused to treat him. Renzo refused to let her walk away. Old wounds reopened, jealousy grew, and dangerous secrets from the past began to surface.
As Zaria focused on finishing the job and escaping once more, Renzo uncovered a truth that shook him deeply: Zaria had a child, and the child looked exactly like him.
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Chapter: CHAPTER 3ZARIA I had waited a full two weeks before daring to use the parcel I received at Richard’s birthday party. I couldn’t act immediately, Renzo would have noticed. Any tiny change in my behavior or any shift in routine, could trigger his suspicion. And if he suspected even for a second… escape would become impossible.So for two long, exhausting weeks, I played the perfect wife.I smiled when he looked at me.I laughed at the right moments.“Ma’am,” May, the housekeeper's daughter, called out to me. “The water is hot enough now.”Blinking back into reality, I glanced at the whistling kettle. “Thank you May.”During these two weeks, I have built a routine, one that Renzo appreciated a little too much. I started making him tea every night, something to help him sleep better and calm his mind.The timing was perfect.After the birthday party, he developed a cough from his nonstop smoking. The tea seemed to help, so he relied on it.He didn’t know that I was relying on it too for a complet
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Chapter: CHAPTER 2ZARIA “Are you okay?”His voice pulled me out of my thoughts. I blinked rapidly, lifting my eyes to Renzo while forcing a small, shaky smile onto my face.“Yeah,” I said, clearing my throat lightly. “I’m fine.”A lie.But if I wanted any chance of escaping him, him and the powerful family he was born into, I needed to lie. I needed to act perfectly normal. I needed to be careful…extra careful.Trying to slip away from a man raised in a syndicate, a man feared by police and respected by criminals, was going to be nearly impossible. “Have you gone for your monthly checkup?” Renzo asked as he walked closer. He stood behind me, placing a gentle hand on my shoulder. We stared at our reflections in the mirror.“We have to make sure you’re fine,” he added softly.More like you want to check if I’m pregnant.Slowly getting up from the vanity chair, I turned to face him fully, reaching for his hand and giving it a gentle squeeze, playing the role of the devoted wife he expected.“I’m fine,”
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Chapter: CHAPTER 1ZARIA What could possibly be worse than discovering you’re nothing more than a legal surrogate in your own marriage? Maybe the fact that I didn’t even see it coming. I’m only in this house, in his life, because she cannot give him a child, and he needs an heir to keep his place as the mafia boss. That’s all I am! Someone with a working womb. He made me feel special so that I would relax around him… so I would trust him… so I would sleep with him. And like a fool in love, I gave him everything. My heart. My hope. My virginity. All because I believed he cared. “You know I keep my promises,” Renzo said softly to Elix, in that gentle voice I thought was meant only for me. Renzo, the man everyone knows as cruel, violent, and cold has always been strangely tender with me. Patient. Careful. Almost loving. Or so I thought. Turns out it was all just a convenient performance. A role he played to get what he wanted. “I already told you my arrangement with Zaria,” he continued, “and
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