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Dark Obsession

Dark Obsession

In a city where power is everything, loyalty can be bought—and lives can be erased without a trace. Silvano Neri doesn’t question orders. He carries them out with precision, silence, and absolute control. Known only as Silenzio, he is the weapon no one sees coming. No one knows who he is. No one ever hears him coming. But Silvano Neri is closer than anyone realizes. Cold. Untouchable. Watching the city from above like it belongs to him, Silvano moves through a world of luxury and shadows with terrifying precision. His secrets are buried deep. Until he is given a mission unlike any before: Eliminate Mirella Salviati—the daughter of one of the most powerful men in the city. It should have been simple. But Mirella is nothing like he expected. She is sharp where others are blind. Calm where others break. And dangerously easy to watch… to understand… to want. What begins as a mission turns into an obsession he never planned for—and a weakness he cannot afford. Because Mirella isn’t just his target. She is the daughter of the man responsible for destroying his family. Now Silvano stands at the edge of a choice that will define everything: Finish what he started… or protect the one person who could unravel him completely. As buried truths begin to surface, Silvano uncovers something far more dangerous than his assignment—a web of lies within the very organization that created him. Betrayal runs deeper than he imagined, and the line between hunter and pawn begins to blur. In a world where silence is survival, love is a risk he was never meant to take. But when love and revenge collide… something will have to break. And this time— it won’t be quiet.
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Chapter: EPILOGUE — After
MIRELLA The wedding was in April. Not the wedding my father had been planning — not the strategic alliance dressed in ivory and obligation, not the event designed to serve someone else's architecture, not the performance of a union that existed to consolidate something that had nothing to do with the two people inside it. We had dismantled all of that along with everything else. This was different. Small. Honest. Ours. Silvano had asked me on a Tuesday morning in the penthouse with the city outside doing what it always did and no ceremony around it — had simply looked at me across the breakfast table and said what he had decided and that was that. No production. No performance. The specific directness of a man who had spent his entire adult life saying exactly what he meant and no more and had applied that quality to the most important question he had ever asked. I had said yes before he finished saying it. Rosa came to the wedding. She sat in the third row in a dark blue dre
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-06-07
Chapter: Chapter 105 — First Impressions
MIRELLA I arranged it for the following Saturday. Not at the penthouse — the penthouse was ours and I was not ready to share it yet, not in the specific way that certain spaces belong to certain things and remain most themselves when they aren't being presented to an audience. I chose a restaurant in the western quarter instead. Small, warm, the kind of place that had been there long enough to have its own particular atmosphere that didn't require explanation. I told Silvano on Wednesday. He was at the secondary desk when I told him — reading something, the lamp casting its low warm light across the room — and he looked up at me with the expression of a man who had been expecting this conversation and had been preparing for it with the thoroughness he brought to everything. "All three of them," he said. "All three," I confirmed. A brief pause. "Elara has a speech." "A short one," I said. "Pointed but brief. Her words." He looked at me for a moment. "And the other two." "Giu
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-06-07
Chapter: Chapter 104
MIRELLA The silence lasted approximately four seconds. Nerina broke it. "You're pregnant," she said. Not a question — the specific declarative of someone whose mind had moved faster than the room and arrived at the conclusion before anyone else had finished processing the setup. "Yes," I said. The room erupted. Not dramatically — not with the theatrical shrieking of people performing reaction rather than having one. The specific, genuine, overlapping eruption of three people receiving unexpected news simultaneously and each responding from their own particular register without coordinating with the others first. Giulia said "Mirella" in the voice she used when something had exceeded the capacity of her usual composure to contain it. Nerina made a sound that was not a word. Elara said nothing — stood up from the bed and crossed the room and pulled me to my feet and held me for a long moment with the full weight of someone who understood, without it being explained, the comple
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-06-07
Chapter: Chapter 103 — The Whole Truth
MIRELLA I told them on a Friday evening. Not planned exactly — or planned in the way that things get planned when you have been putting them off long enough that the putting off itself has become its own kind of dishonesty and you decide, on a specific ordinary Friday, that ordinary Fridays are exactly when things like this should happen. No ceremony. No significant location. Just the four of us in Giulia's room with the door closed and the campus quiet outside and three people who had been my closest friends for four years and who deserved every word of what I was about to say. I had told Elara the broad shape of it in pieces. She knew more than the others. But even she didn't have everything — had been given the managed version, the version I had decided was safe, the version that protected her from the full weight of it. Tonight was the unmanaged version. I sat on the floor with my back against Giulia's bed. Elara was cross-legged on the bed behind me. Giulia was in her desk
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-06-07
Chapter: Chapter 102 — The Don's End
SILVANO The message came from Luca at six forty-one on a Tuesday morning. Three words. Don Marco. Done. I read it once. Set the phone face down on the desk. Sat in the quiet of the secondary apartment for a moment with the early morning city assembling itself outside the window and the three words sitting in the room with the specific weight of something that had been approaching for a long time and had finally arrived. I picked the phone back up. Silvano: How. Luca's reply took four minutes — the duration of someone pulling together information rather than constructing it. Luca: Rivals. The Carbone family. They've been waiting for the infrastructure to fall for two years — couldn't move while Vestri's architecture was intact, too much organizational protection. The moment the accounts froze they started moving. Found him last night at the secondary property in the eastern suburbs. Three men. It was over quickly. City police have the scene but they won't find anything that le
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-06-06
Chapter: Chapter 101 — The Don's Move
SILVANO Luca's message arrived at eleven forty-three that same morning. I was still at the dormitory — had stayed longer than I had planned, which was not something I had ever done before and which Mirella had noticed and had said nothing about, which was its own kind of acknowledgment. We had sat with the morning and the test and the slow, unprecedented process of two people absorbing something that had no precedent in either of their lives, and I had left only when she had a lecture she refused to miss on principle and had kissed me at the door with the specific warmth of someone who had decided that whatever came next they were facing it from the same side. I was two blocks from the dormitory when the message came. Luca: Don Marco surfaced. Not alone. Three men, city center, financial district. Meeting with someone I don't recognize yet. Running the face now. I stopped walking. Silvano: How long ago. Luca: Twenty minutes. Still there. I changed direction. The financial di
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-06-06
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