THE DEVIL'S DUE
Mia Nova is sold to the devil to clear her fathers debt. Luca Barone, known in whispered fear as Diavolo, doesn’t just collect money, he also collects souls.
Luca expects to meet a broken Mia who will plead for her life with tears and vivid fear. Instead he meets a petty thief who fears nothing.
She smiles when he threatens to sell her to men, and makes jokes about her breast size not being enough for these men.
In Luca’s world, the biggest currency is fear, but it seems Mia is bankrupt.
When she steps into Pandemonium, his secret lair where powerful men are undone, she becomes the queen of the night, raking in five hundred million dollars in her first night.
They make a second deal. The freedom of her soul costs six billion dollars in the six months of her gracing the golden chair every night.
A kiss seals the deal. That same kiss changes everything between them.
He becomes possessive, and she wants to surrender to him, but the ghost of the woman who graced the chair before her, returns with a fire that is set to burn everything down.
Mia must decide between running from the Devil who owns her, or staying with the man who no longer wants to.
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Chapter: IN THE ARMS OF HER LOVER“So what did you and Lev talk about?” Peach asked as they drove back to the castle. “I don't even want to talk about it. It's all in the past now. I just have to wait for Luca to come home, and everything to return to normal.” “Normal huh?” Peach huffed. “What is normal in the castle, and Pandemonium?” “Not a damn thing,” Mia replied after thinking about it for a second. “But hey, it's our life now, right?” “And it's a damn good one, if I do say so myself!” Peach turned up the volume on the radio, as the song with that same title began to play. They screamed in unison, and sang at the top of their voices along. It was completely dark when they finally drove into the castle. “And we're home!” Mia said, as she alighted first. “We are. Go ahead. I have to stop by Pandemonium.” “Alright. See ya!” Mia waved at her, and hopped happily into the castle. She hummed the last song that played on the radio, as she made her way to her room. On arrival, she burst in, swinging her hips fro
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Chapter: CLOSURESTWO WEEKS LATER MIA I stormed into Niko's office, red in the face with annoyance.“Really? Is this really happening?” The words flew out of my lips in line with my steps.“Mia!” Dimitri called with an inflected tone.I turned to him, daggers in my eyes. “You know it's amazing that you can smile, and be happy. Know why? You're not the one who can't see the man they love because of some fuck ass excuse. Yeah I said it- a fucking fuck ass excuse!” I banged my palm on the table.“Wow, you're really pregnant, aren't you?” Niko said to me.“Ha!” I scoffed. “Don't you dare use my pregnancy against me. I want to see Luca!”“Well, that's not going to happen, and you know it, Mia. He'll be arriving from the hospital any day now. Then you'll see him.”“But–”“Listen to Niko, Mia. You should be flattered anyway. He loves you so much his heart can't handle seeing you without extreme reactions. You know how many women would kill to have a man love them like that?” Dimitri threw me a wink.“Okay,
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Chapter: SHADES OF BLOODLINE“Thank God. You're stable again. You're such a fighter. It's amongst the many things that are absolutely so attractive about you,” Ava sat beside Luca's bed, speaking to his unconscious body. “You know I'm really a terrible sister. You tried to make me believe I wasn't, but I am. I've thought of you in ways that aren't right. I've fantasized about kissing you,” she paused, and sighed. “These things would never have happened if I wasn't such a selfish person. There was even a tiny part of me that wondered if you would ever see me differently if Mia never turned up again. Just a tiny part, but it was there nonetheless. So you see. I'm horrible.”She paused to gather her thoughts, ensuring that she had everything straightened.Her gaze returned to his face, and she smiled.“Maybe it's partly your fault for being so beautiful. Beautiful face, and an even more beautiful soul. You would do anything for those you love. You risked losing your life to save Mia's from what I heard. Now that's t
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Chapter: MENDING BRIDGES“You can't just turn up after twenty years and decide to play the role of mother you conveniently vanished from. That's so selfish!” “Look Ava, my darling, I understand how you feel. I really do. But can't we just put our differences aside for your sister's sake. Also there was a valid reason I left. I didn't just vanish.”“Oh please,” Ava scoffed. “Why don't you tell us what your valid reason is?” She air quoted.“Do you have a decade?”“Try two,” she fired back.Pam sighed, her shoulders slouching as the fight slowly left her.“Are you two done?” Doctor Lee, who had given them the opportunity to bare their minds, intervened.“I know I'm done with her. There's nothing she could possibly say to justify why she left dad alone. Why her own sister, God rest her soul, had to step in on her behalf.” Ava folded her hand, and pouted stoically.Pam turned to her, her eyes filled with hurt. “I know you think your father is a saint–”“Oh now you bring up dad to shield yourself? Classic. You se
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Chapter: THINGS FALL APART“Go!” Niko said to Luca, his gun still pointed at Draco who was writhing in pain from the shot to his leg Luca nodded, and with a stagger, ran through the back door.He didn't know where he was going. His system was slowing down. His vision was blurry. He was barely breathing, but he just kept moving, and moving, until he burst through a door that led him outside.There he saw Mia, on her knees. Next to her was Camila sprawled on the ground, bleeding away.“Where is our boss, Diavolo?” Draco's second in command stepped before Luca who was barely still standing. “Alive. Let her go.” He tried to sound authoritative, but his voice only just came out weak.“Give him to me, and I'll let her go,” he said.“Loki, let her–” he coughed, spurting out blood.Mia ignored the warnings of the guys for her to stay still, and ran over to Luca.“Please let him go.” She dropped to her knees in front of the second in command, joining her hands together to desperately plead.“Didn't I tell you to stay
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Chapter: DYING SLOWLYLuca's eyes opened, and Niko felt them the moment they did.His gaze whipped towards his face. “You're awake. I thought–”“Mi-a,” he pronounced weakly, and tried to get up.“No!” Niko's hand shot out to stop him. “You can't move. Your body is burning up. You have a fever, Luca.”“Don't care. Mia.” He struggled to say.“She's fine. I asked her to call the driver to help me bring you down, okay? She's fine,” he quickly explained.Luca opened his mouth, but couldn't form any words anymore.Raw pain sliced through his head, blurring his vision.He winced, his head falling back to the ground.“Fuck, What's taking her so long?” Niko worried, seeing the state Luca was in.Down the stairs, Damien Draco smiled sinisterly.“Is this who you came for?” He glanced briefly at the severed head he was holding. “Oops, too late,” he chuckled.“Why?” Mia questioned breathlessly.“I have a plethora of reasons. Where do I start from?”“No, don't. Luca is in an emergency situation. I have to he–”“Oh is he
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DAMSEL MEETS DANGER
"You really want me to worship you? well guess what? When I get on my knees, spread your legs apart, and dive into your gushing core with my tongue, and you grab my hair from behind, screaming, oh God! That is worship!" Vlad bellowed.
For the first time ever, Ivy went tongue-tied.
Ivy Greene hates men.
It's not just a phase, or a front. She actively hates them.
All her life, she has lived, surrounded by women. Most importantly, her grandmother who taught her to hate men.
So when she finds a man in her living room, and her grandmother tells her he is her betrothed, her first reaction is to faint.
She wakes up in a wedding gown, all dolled up, with a note plastered on the mirror in the strange room.
The moment she crosses through the door, her entire life changes as she steps into the world of Vladimir Bratva, the youngest, yet most feared mafia lord in the world.
Vladimir is taken aback by her venomous tongue she wastes no time using to show him just how little she thinks of men. He's only used to men hating him, so she's an amusing development.
Both strong-headed, they clash in every way. But the most explosive way is between sheets, where Vladimir shows Ivy the kind of results passionate hate can produce.
Her perspective starts to shift. Because how can the same kind of person she has been groomed to hate, make her scream so much, and not in anger?
Just when she begins to rethink her orientation, the ghost of their ancestral past, intertwined in the most toxic way, resurrects. Sending them on a ride that changes everything.
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Chapter: ACROSS BORDERSChaos ran rampant across the hallways of the Bratva villa, as everyone aware of the situation on ground moved around to follow instructions.Vladimir was amongst these people. He walked straight to Isabella Gambino's room to give her the reassurance he was certain she needed at this trying moment, before he would leave the villa.“Vlad!” She ran to meet him at the door, the moment he walked in. “They won't let me out, Vlad! No one will tell me what's going on.”“Belle,” he held her by her shoulders. “Listen to me. You need to breathe, so you can hear what I have to say.”“Screw breathing, Vlad. I just want to know she's going to be fine. She'll be fine, right?”“On my life, she will. She will be fine, Belle. That's why I need to be certain you're fine before I leave.”“What?” Her face scrunched. “You're going to the ruins?”“I have to. That's the only way–”“I'm coming with you then.”“What? No!”“I am, Bratva. It's my family. They're doing this because of me.”“No, they're doing this
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Chapter: IN THE RUINS WITH THE MOLE MANThe light in the room flickered, creating a zebra effect that caused dizziness.Ivy opened her eyes, one first, then the other followed.It took her a couple seconds to adjust her senses to a new environment.Of course the first thing she noticed were the flickering lights.Followed closely was a sinking realization that she wasn't standing on the soft soil that housed her beautiful flowers.On the contrary, she was in a stuffy room, with a damp stench and–She paused, and gasped.Her memories aligned in a heartbeat, and she remembered the man dressed head to toe in all black.“I turned, and he covered my mouth,” she muttered to herself.The danger of the situation she was in bellowed in her head, and her single instant thought was to escape.She tried to move her body to do just that, but quickly found out she couldn't.When the light flickered on, and held for more than a second, she looked down to see she was seated on a chair.Her hands were tied behind, and her legs too.It expla
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Chapter: THE TAIL OF THE DRAGONVladimir's eyes opened to the sound of pounding on his door.His hand quickly went under his bed where he snatched out Mercy, before rolling out of bed.“Coming!” He screamed at the top of his voice to whoever it was with the disrespectful knock.“This better be worth the disturbance,” he muttered under his breath, opening the door.Andrei, and Hedeon stood side by side, with a frantic Isabella in their middle.“She's gone!” Isabella screamed hysterically, tears in her eyes.“Gambino, calm the fuck down, and tell me what you're talking about.”“I'm so sorry, Vladimir. It's all my fault. This is on me. Please forgive me. Please.” She dropped to her knees, wailing inconsolably.Andrei crouched to swiftly pick her up, which left Hedeon to explain what was happening.“Boss, it's Ivy Greene.”His heart catapulted, but he kept an unbothered front. “Okay? What about Ivy?”“Isabella says they were both at the second garden, but she left briefly to bring them towels after they took a dip in th
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Chapter: SNATCHED“I can't believe you really thought I am Vladimir's woman,” Isabella said with amusement in her tone, and her eyes twinkling as she walked to the garden with Ivy who was still recovering from the confession she just heard.“I'm sorry,” she finally apologised. “I guess I just assumed, considering how pretty you are and how close you seemed to him.”“Oh honey, Vladimir might be hot as hell, but he's not the man that has always made my heart race.”Ivy wasn't very interested in hearing about the activities between men and women, but she was also taught to be polite.“So there's someone,” she said, engaging her.Isabella's eyes lit up, illuminating her face with a soft glow.“There is. You must have met him.”“He lives here?”“He does.” Her smile widened.“Oh,” she simply said in return.Never in her life had she been around a woman her age. The older women she had been surrounded by, always engaged her in intellectual conversations, or just fun things that had nothing to do with men..S
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Chapter: FEARLESS“Vlad? Listen to me Vlad. You're burning a whole plantation. You want to set on fire about a hundred million dollars. Rethink this, Vlad! Please rethink it,” Andrei pleaded with Vladimir, amidst the boys who had spread all over the land, pouring gallons of gasoline everywhere.Vladimir ignored him, and focused on instructing the boys on which grounds to cover to ensure that a good chunk of the land was affected by the fire.“Jesus Christ, Vlad! They'll know it's us. They'll know, and it'll be war!”He turned to Maxim who stood watching, just as confused about what was happening around him.“Brother Andrei? What is going on? Who owns this land?”“It's the fucking Gambino's, Maxim! We discovered a secret path of this land a while ago, and kept it in the vault. I really didn't think a day would come where we'd actually have to retaliate, and attack this way. Heck I hate the Gambino's, but this punishment doesn't fit the crime!”“Say’s who, Andrei!” Vladimir, who had heard the last part,
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Chapter: I WILL NOT FALLSheila Greene smiled at her granddaughter. The smile was tight, and her facial muscles barely moved. But it was all she could muster.“Grandma–”“I loved your mother a thousand times more than I loved my own son.” She cut her off to drop a bombshell.But it wasn't that big of a bomb, when it was so obvious already.Ivy pressed her lips shut, and patiently listened.“The day you were born, I held you in one arm, and wrapped my other arm around your mother. That's how much I loved her.”The door opened as she was about to continue.“Could you give me a minute with my granddaughter please?” Sheila questioned without even looking towards the door to see who it was.She already sniffed the nurse's presence.“Fine, but please, no heavy emotions.” She turned around, and walked out of the room.Sheila smiled again, and continued. “I begged your mother to leave your father and come live with me. She would always look at me like I was losing my mind. How could she leave a man she loved with al
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