The Mafia Boss's Estranged Bride.
“Bring my wife to me.” The words echoed through the hallway.
Five years ago, Isabella Romano died.
Or… so the world believes. She had been forced into a cold, loveless marriage with the ruthless mafia king, Lorenzo De Luca where Isabella was nothing more than a pawn in a dangerous game of power. But on the night she uncovered a secret that could destroy his empire, she became a target.
So she did the only thing she could to survive. Disappear.
Now living under a new identity as Elena Rossi, Isabella has built a quiet life far away from blood, betrayal… and the man she once called husband. But when a high-profile art restoration job leads her straight into Lorenzo’s world again, everything she once buried comes crashing back because Lorenzo never forgets and he never forgives.
The moment he sees her, one truth becomes clear, his estranged bride was still alive and this time, he’s was never letting her go. Now dragged back into a world she barely escaped, Isabella must hide the one secret that could destroy everything; she didn’t leave alone, she had left with his son.
But as enemies close in and buried truths begin to surface, one question threatens to tear them apart:
Did Isabella run to betray him… Or to save his life?
Because in a world ruled by power and blood, love is dangerous and secrets are deadly.
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Chapter: Chapter 158: The Cost of RicciBefore dawn, Ricci was back to the Villa, restrained but unharmed, and he had been put in the same reinforced room that had once held Marco, and Ferro after him. Nobody spoke much on the drive back, Lucia sat in the front seat beside Lorenzo, her hands folded tightly in her lap, staring straight ahead at a road she couldn't properly see. Marco checked the restraints himself once they'd arrived and when he straightened, his eyes found Lorenzo's across the small concrete room with an expression that carried more history in it than either of them wanted to name aloud. "We should talk," Marco said. "Before this goes any further." They stepped into the hallway. The bulb overhead hummed the same way it always had, indifferent to whatever was said beneath it. "I know what you're going to say," Lorenzo said. "Then say it back to me, so I know we're actually having the same conversation this time." Lorenzo exhaled slowly. "You're going to say he's already given us more than Ferro did. Th
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Chapter: Chapter 157— What the Architect BuiltThe rotation broke at 2:47 a.m., exactly as predicted.Lorenzo moved silently through the gap with two of Marco's men. The guard at the side entrance was already down before he knew what hit him. Inside, the corridor smelled of cold electronics and recycled air as servers hummed behind a locked door at the rear, cables running in neat black rivers along the baseboards — the structure made physical, just the way Lucia had described it.Marco's voice came low through the earpiece. "The second guard has been neutralized. We're clear to the server room."They weren't.The door at the end of the hallway opened before Lorenzo reached it.Ricci stood in the frame, unarmed, hands loose at his sides, like a man who had waited for this very moment so many times that arriving at it finally felt almost like relief."You were faster than I expected," he said. "Or she's better than I remembered."Lorenzo didn't lower his weapon. "Where's the trap?""You're standing in it." Ricci stepped back from
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Chapter: Chapter 157:The Trap in the TrapThat night, Lucia couldn't sleep a wink.Instead, she sat at the kitchen table long after midnight, the villa had gone quiet around her, a single lamp burning low, as she turned the day's plan over in her mind. From Marco's photographs to the rotation of guards. The server room was still visible through a side window that had been left slightly too easy to see.She was still sitting there when Lorenzo found her."You're still here when you should be resting?" he asked."So should you."He pulled out the chair across from her instead of arguing, and sat down and for a moment neither of them spoke. She studied his face, it was steadier than it had been at the desk that morning, but still carried the tightness of a man who had already committed himself to something and was only now allowing himself to feel the weight of it until he achieved it.."I think something's wrong," she said. "I've felt it since Sofia found that IP address.""The team's confirmed everything. Guards, layout, the v
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Chapter: Chapter 155: Following the MoneyIsabella found Lorenzo in the study with three lit-up screens open where there had been one the night before. He hadn't slept. She could tell by how still he sat. "You should eat." "I know…I'll do that later." "You said that yesterday." He didn't answer. She recognized the change that had happened overnight — the man who'd fed his mother's bread to Matteo and kept laughing until his shoulders shook, was gone. What sat behind the desk now was the version of him she'd first met with a gun in his hand. "Lorenzo." He looked up. "Please listen to me. I'm not asking you to stop." Her voice caught in her throat."I'm asking you to remember that there are people in this house who love you whether you win this battle or not." “I know.” A look of ease crossed his face as he took her hand from across the desk. "I remember." But his eyes had already gone back to the screen before he finished the sentence. ********** Sofia and Lucia arrived twenty minutes later, and the r
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Chapter: Chapter 154: Cracks in the Architecture"It's tied to this property. To the villa." "Show me," Lorenzo said. Sofia turned the laptop towards him. On it was a single line of transaction data, that was routed through an account none of them had mapped, terminated at a property tax service tied to the villa's own utilities. "It's not a threat," Sofia said slowly, working through it. "It's not large enough to touch anything real. Three hundred euros. Nothing." "Then why send it here at all?" Marco asked. Nobody answered. Lucia felt the silence settle into her chest, a weight she recognized from decades ago. "It's not money," she said finally. "It's a signature." Lorenzo looked at her. "What signature? Do explain what you mean by that." "A transfer that small, routed to touch this address specifically, serves no financial purpose at all." Her voice had gone quiet, careful. "It only exists to be found. And that means he wants you to know that he saw the disruption, understood exactly what it was, and deliberately
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Chapter: Chapter 153:The First MoveSofia had turned one of the walls in the study into a corkboard, using red threads to connect nodes the way she'd once connected them only on a screen. Lucia stood beside her, her coffee going cold in her hand as the both of them were so absorbed in the map that neither noticed Lorenzo in the doorway. "This one." Sofia tapped a printout near the center. "The consultancy account. If you're right about the coordination requirement, this is the one Ricci checks most, because it connects to nearly a third of the structure." "Yes. And it's also the most protected." Lucia frowned at the routing. "A man protects what he can't afford to lose, so he's telling us how much he needs it." "So we don't hit it directly." Sofia was already following the thread. "We need to find something he trusts to not bother watching." “How about that?" Lucia said, pointing to a smaller node near the edge — one Sofia had flagged weeks earlier and dismissed as insignificant. "There. Small transactions. Opera
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