BLOOD DEBT
Drina Federico was born with nothing and lost everything too early. Her parents were murdered, her home burned, and the truth was hidden by money and power. Weak, poor, and invisible, she grows up surviving on scraps in the shadows of Madrid, carrying only pain and a quiet hunger for payback.
Dino Fazio is everything Drina is not. A cruel billionaire. A man who rules the city from behind polished glass and blood-soaked deals. To the world, he is invincible. In truth, he is the king of a criminal kingdom built on silence and sacrifice.
When Drina steals information meant to expose him, she is caught and pulled into his world. Instead of killing her, Dino cages her. Sure, she is a threat. She is broken, frightened, and powerless, but she refuses to kneel. Trapped together, hatred turns sharp, tension turns dangerous, and the line between enemy and obsession starts to blur.
As gang wars erupt and secrets surface, Drina learns the truth: Dino did not kill her parents, but his power made their deaths possible. Revenge becomes a choice, not a dream. Escape is no longer enough. Power is.
Forced to choose between destroying Dino or standing beside him to burn the kingdom from within, Drina must decide who she will become. A victim who runs, or a woman who rises.
In a world where love is born from violence, and trust is paid for in blood, can two broken souls find redemption or will power destroy them both?
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Chapter: Chapter fifteenDrina’s POVWhere we were going was not told to me.In the morning, two guards were waiting out of my door, as was their usual practice, clad as they always were, with faces blank, and hands near their arms. One of them shook his head down the corridor."Walk," he said.I pulled myself close and got out with my head lowered as though I was frightened to see something. Inside, I was counting.Steps. Turns. Cameras.This was the time of quiet in the estate. Light poured in through tall windows and rested on marble floors and costly art, which did not matter to me. To make myself look stiff, not sure of my movements, as if every sound made me nervous."Faster," the second guard said.I am trying, I was whispering, and I was shaking.We were travelling through a long corridor where no cameras were on the corners of the ceiling. I noticed it immediately. The guards came to a halt, unconsciously, and their shoulders lowered slightly. I marked it in my head.Blind spot.We turned left. Then
Last Updated: 2026-02-21
Chapter: Chapter fourteenDrina’s POVThey took me back to my room as if I were of glass.Two guards were mounted on either side of me, with such proximity that I touched their heat, and their weapons brushed my arms as I had to slack. No one spoke. The glosses in the hall were too bright, as though they were endeavouring to burn the truth out of my head.I kept my eyes down.If I looked up, I might scream.The door opened. It was the same room as usual. Soft bed. Clean floor. Locked windows. A cage dressed in comfort."Sit," one of the guards said.I sat on the edge of the bed. I was so shaky with my hands that I was forced to squeeze them between my knees.The door closed.The lock clicked.I was alone.The silence crashed into me.I stood erect and drew myself in, and my chest felt like there was a heavy thing on it. My head re-heard all that I had heard, all the words bending over each other until one ugly truth came up.My parents did not pass on due to a lack of luck.They were killed as they were inconv
Last Updated: 2026-02-17
Chapter: Chapter thirteenDino’s POVThe call preceded the settlement of the smoke.Attack confirmed by your voice,” Sofia, said, my voice tightened. "Drina's convoy was hit."I was holding the phone in my hand. "Is she alive?""Yes," she replied quickly. "Shaken. Minor injuries. The driver is dead."I then shut my eyes for half a second and afterwards reopened them. "Lock the city.""That's already in motion.""I want the shooter," I said. "Alive if possible."I ended the call and moved.Madrid never slept that night. Sirens were disseminated through the streets. Cameras shifted. Checkpoints rose in minutes. This was my city, and someone had fired a rifle without authorisation.Such an error would cost them it all.“Trace the path”, I said, entering the operations room. I desire rooftops, windows, and unfinished architecture. Where a clean view could be had.Men moved fast. Screens lit up. Drones went up.Sofia stood beside me. "This was professional.""I know," I said.“Too clean to get a chance to hit,” she
Last Updated: 2026-02-15
Chapter: Chapter twelveDrina’s POVI had first heard it in the silence.Not the quiet type, but the shy type, the one that trails after you when people have ceased to talk the instant you enter a room. The guards were straighter when I went. The dialogues were too short. Doors which used to be shut were now left ajar to enable me walk through.Dino was doing something.I experienced it the way one can feel a storm before the rain falls on the ground.In the morning of the same day, I happened to pass the east corridor with Sofia, who was wearing her heels on the marble floor. She did not gaze at me, but her pose was on the alert.“You are changing to a new time,” she said."I wasn't told," I replied."You're being informed now."I stopped walking. "By who?"She glanced at me then. "By Dino."That name was yet to sink deep in my chest. "Why?"And this hesitation, which Sofia made, taught me all that she did not mean to say.You will not meet any more; there will be meetings you will not attend. No common tra
Last Updated: 2026-02-14
Chapter: Chapter elevenDino’s POVI had never opened those files in many years, not out of secrecy, but because they were covered with excessive blood.They sat on my individual server, and were kept, closed over three layers of clearance, any movement or conversation thereof being neither noticed nor recalled by anyone save the dead. I read them tonight, since the name of Drina was never to be forgotten, and because I felt that silence was beginning to be a crime.The screen was dimly lit in the dark office in which I poured myself a drink that I was not determined to take. The capital of Madrid was extending beyond the glass walls, breathing life, unaware of the ghosts breathing within my empire."Archive," I said. "Operation Ashfall."The machine hesitated like it was about to start.Then the files appeared.Dates. Locations. Redacted names. The number of casualties is coldly listed. I made it page at page, my jaw clenching with it. Ashfall was not a raid. It was a cleansing. Entire blocks erased. The so
Last Updated: 2026-02-11
Chapter: Chapter tenDrina’s POVI met Sofia Cruz on a Tuesday morning, and from the first second, I knew she did not like me.She did not bother to hide it. Some people smile before they stab you. Sofia did not even smile. She looked at me the way one looks at a problem that should not exist.“So this is her,” she said, standing up from her chair slowly. Her voice was calm, sharp, and cold. “The thief who decided not to run.”I folded my arms and met her eyes. “And you must be Sofia. Dino’s brain.”Her lips curved slightly, but there was no warmth in them. “Strategist,” she corrected. “Brains can be replaced. Strategy cannot.”There we stood a moment and looked at each other, as though we were two blades set together, and we were waiting to see which first crack would. Dino was not in the room. I knew that was on purpose. This was her ground, not mine.Sofia was slowly circling me, as though examining a weapon. You are smaller than I thought, you are she said. "And quieter."“I read that the silent folk
Last Updated: 2026-02-10
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