Chapter: Chapter 93: The glitch*Lucian's POV*The Drakov estate was a skeleton of its former self.Scaffolding clung to the east wing where the explosions had scorched the stone. The smell of wet ash and fresh lumber hung heavy in the air, a constant reminder of how close Malcom had come to bringing the walls down.I stood in the operations center–the only room fully functional. Screens flickered with blue light, displaying camera feeds, perimeter sensors, and thermal overlays.Nikolai stood beside me, his arms crossed, staring at a monitor that showed a red blinking light on the eastern grid."It’s happened again," Nikolai said, his voice tight with frustration.I leaned in. "The same sector?""Sector 4. The blind spot near the river."We had swept that area three times since the attack. We had repaired the wiring, replaced the cameras, and stationed two-man teams on rotation. Yet, every night between 3:00 AM and 4:00 AM, the system reported a "ghost" reading. A shadow that wasn't there."Equipment failure?" I ask
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-03-17
Chapter: Chapter 92: The engineer*Aria's POV*The penthouse felt different after his parents left. It wasn't that anything had moved–every vase, every rug, every piece of art was exactly where it had been for years. But the air felt thinner, as if Victor and Elena had sucked the oxygen out of the room along with their judgment.I stood in the nursery, watching Adrian play with a set of magnetic tiles. He was building a tower, his small brow furrowed in concentration. He hadn’t spoken about the bunker, or Silas, or the men with guns. He played in silence, a silence that terrified me more than the nightmares I knew were coming."Mommy, look," he said suddenly, his voice a soft rasp. "It's a castle.""It's a beautiful castle, baby," I said, kneeling beside him. "Who lives in the castle?""A dragon," he said simply, placing a red tile on top. "But he's a good dragon. He keeps the bad guys out."My throat tightened. I stroked his hair. "Yes. He does."The doorbell chimed.I froze. My heart rate spiked instantly, a Pavlovi
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-03-17
Chapter: Chapter 91: The weight of Dynasties*Aria’s POV*The peaceful silence of the penthouse was shattered by the sharp, rhythmic knocking on the front door. It wasn't the tentative knock of a servant or the alert of a security detail. It was a summons.I froze, midway through pouring coffee. Lucian, who had been reading a file at the kitchen island, went rigid. He knew that knock. It was a sound from his childhood–a sound that demanded entry, not requested it."Stay here," Lucian said, his voice low.He walked to the door and opened it.Victor and Elena Drakov swept in like a cold front, bringing the chill of Switzerland with them. They hadn’t announced their arrival, but then again, they didn’t need to. They owned the walls we stood in.Victor Sinclair looked older than the last time I saw him, which wasn’t very long ago, but it felt as if there was something weighing on him. The lines around his mouth deeper, carved by years of calculated decisions. He wore a charcoal overcoat, his posture as rigid as a marble column.Elen
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-03-16
Chapter: Chapter 90: The ghosts of the past*Lucian’s POV*The penthouse smelled of lemon polish and stale air.I had ordered the staff to maintain it weekly, even though I hadn’t stepped foot in it for four years. It was a mausoleum. A shrine to a life I had destroyed. Standing in the doorway now, with Aria trembling beside me and Adrian asleep in my arms, I felt like a trespasser in my own past."Welcome home," I murmured, the words feeling inadequate.Aria walked past me, her steps hesitant. She ran her fingers over the marble entryway console, her touch feather-light, as if she expected the furniture to dissolve into mist."It’s exactly the same," she whispered. Her voice cracked. "The rug... the painting. It’s just that it’s tidier than when you brought me here last time."I hadn't changed a single thing. I couldn't. To change it would have been to admit she was never coming back.I carried Adrian down the hall to the room nearest the master suite. I had never thought there would be a nursery here. Now, it held a proper be
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-03-16
Chapter: Chapter 89: Rescue*Aria's POV*Matteo grunted, stumbling, but didn't let go. "Crazy bitch!" He spun me around, backhanding me across the face.My head snapped back, the taste of blood filling my mouth again. I fell against the sofa, seeing stars."Enough games," Matteo snarled, reaching for me again.My hand brushed my cuff. My fingers found the shard of glass. The cold, sharp edge.I gripped it, the glass biting into my palm.As Matteo reached for my throat to drag me up, I didn't pull away. I lunged into him.I drove the shard of glass upward.I wasn't aiming for his throat–I wasn't tall enough, and he was moving. I aimed for the soft spot just above his collarbone, where the neck met the shoulder.Matteo howled, a sound of pure agony. He reeled back, clutching his neck, blood spurting between his fingers. "You–you cut me!"I didn't wait. I scrambled backward, slipping on the rug, desperate to get to Adrian.The guard holding Adrian had dropped him in the chaos of the explosions. Adrian was curled in
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-03-15
Chapter: Chapter 88: The glass wall*Aria's POV*The room they brought me to wasn't a cell. It was a twisted mockery of a living room - Persian rugs over cold concrete, a crystal chandelier hanging from a reinforced ceiling, and a fire crackling in an electric hearth. It smelled of expensive leather and old money, a scent that used to mean safety and now meant cage.I sat on the edge of a stiff velvet sofa, my spine rigid, my hands folded tightly in my lap to hide their trembling. In my right cuff, the shard of glass pressed against my wrist, a constant, stinging reminder of my only leverage.Adrian sat next to me, small and quiet. He was wearing the suit my father had forced onto him, his dark hair combed severely to the side. He looked like a miniature soldier, but his eyes - Lucian’s eyes - were wide and darting around the room, looking for an escape."Mommy," he whispered, his voice barely audible over the hum of the ventilation system. "I don't like the suit.""I know, baby," I murmured, brushing a hand over his kn
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-03-15
Chapter: Epilogue*Violet's POV*"I can't do this." I looked at the mess in my room. "What do you mean? You are ready." Rosalina said. "What if I say something stupid? What if I trip and fall?" "You father will be with you, you won't fall." Tracy said rolling her eyes. "Come on you will be fine. Stop stressing out." Mom smiled Aurora laying in her arms sleeping peacefully. Mom is on a wheelchair, but she is doing better than before. She might live fore months, even years thanks to Vincenzo. The man I am going to marry in 10 minutes. This day is perfect. I am wearing my dream dress. It was ice white satin, with fitted boat-necked bodice, with long sleeves embellished to my elbows, and full circular skirt with demi-train sweeping the floor. I fell in love with the dress as soon as I saw it. My hair was pinned back with my veil, and soft curls fell on my shoulders. My make up was the best, it was soft and with nude
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2022-04-16
Chapter: Chapter 84: Labor*Vincenzo's POV*"What the fuck is going on?" Tracy screamed looking at Violet. "She isn't due until 2 more months!" She instantly took her phone. I was frozen in my spot looking at the scene folding in slow motion. Violet was screaming, from fear more than from pain. "Vincenzo!" Gio was shaking me, and I instantly ran to her. "Vincenzo we should go to the hospital, this is a dangerous matter." Tracy said. I nodded looking at Violet's pained face. "I don't want my baby to die." She sobbed. "She won't. She won't." The first one was to reassure her, the second one was to convince myself. "We need to get going. Erico has the car ready." Mario said.I scooped Violet bridal style and ran outside. Paolo opened the back door and I instantly got in. "It's okay baby, you will be fine." I repeated kissing her head. Violet screamed and I held her to my chest tightly. After what
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2022-04-06
Chapter: Chapter 83*Vincenzo's POV*Violet went with her dad to visit her mother. I still don't like him, but I have to tolerate him. Meanwhile, I am going to pay a visit for my dear grandfather. Erico was having fun with him and Serge, but still he isn't satisfied as he said. But I ordered him not to kill them. I need to have fun too with them. I have a built up anger for that fucker. I want to torture him, because he stole my mother first, then he took Violet from me. And my daughter is in critical condition! I went down the basement and entered the cell I was keeping him in. "I never thought I would meet my grandfather like that." I smirked. "I did imagine it d-differently. You in my place." "Look how the tables turned." I opened my favorite knife and cut his cheek. He only flinched, but didn't scream."I thought you had better antics for torture." He smirked spitting blood on the floor. "Oh I do. I planned this
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2022-03-25
Chapter: Chapter 82: cold*Violet's POV*"Come on, we have to go." Vin said taking my hand in his."I am so sorry about shooting your arm. But it felt good. It took you a month to find me." I rolled my eyes."I searched all over for you my flower. I was fucking dying without you. You have no idea how happy I am to see you and our daughter alive." He replied kissing my forehead."Let's go! They took Gio in the first jet, the second is waiting for us." Erico yelled.We nodded and headed to the jet."Violet." My father was waiting for us with Mario."Dad." I ran towards him and
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2022-03-01
Chapter: Chapter 81: proposal *Vincenzo's POV*That was overly dramatic. I wasn't really going to die. I have had worse shots before, and I survived.Most of the pain was in my arm. Another shot was heard and another body slumped to the floor."You son of a bitch!" Violet screamed walking past me.I looked behind me while clutching my arm. No body moved as Nazyr looked at the hole in his leg."Did you really think you can trick me? Did you really think that I can forget my fucking name? My own family? My man, and the love of my life?" She yelled more as she kicked him in the face.Both men from both sides were pointing their guns at each other, but
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2022-02-12
Chapter: Chapter 80: death*Violet's POV*"Stop calling her that! Her name is Violet!" I screamed trying to block the noise, and the man next to me talking."Valeria listen to us. They brainwashed you! Those damn Italians played you. Remember who you are."Nazyr said injecting me with the same syringe. I cried and shouted for him to let go of me.Was my name Violet or Valeria? Why were they screaming over my head. I am clearly pregnant and need some rest. Why are they putting me in a dungeon?"Get him out of here." Nazyr ordered.I know his name because he always makes me remember it. He is the only person who talks to me other than the other ma
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2022-02-09
Blood and Loyalty
Erico Moretti has always been a loyal enforcer for the most ruthless mafia family in Italy. But when his boss, the mafia king Vincenzo, tasks him with bringing down rival mafia boss Antonio Romano, he’s given a dangerous mission: infiltrate the Romano empire as Bianca Romano’s bodyguard. Bianca, the sheltered yet fiercely independent daughter of Antonio, is the key to unraveling her father’s secrets.
At first, Erico sees Bianca as nothing more than a pawn in his deadly game. She’s sharp, confident, and far more perceptive than he expected—qualities that make his job even harder. But when a sudden threat forces them into a marriage of convenience to protect her from her father’s enemies, Erico finds himself tangled in a web of deceit, loyalty, and blood.
But in the world of crime and betrayal, no one is safe, and when secrets are exposed, their lives will hang by a thread. Will Erico choose vengeance, or will Bianca be the one to teach him that loyalty and love are not always at odds?
Baca
Chapter: Chapter 80*Bianca's POV*The house was too quiet.Not the tense silence of a war room or the alert stillness of guarded halls — but the kind of quiet that comes after everything has already been said. After truths are laid bare and there is nothing left to shout.Our home.I still wasn’t used to calling it that.The fire in the living room had burned low, embers pulsing softly like a tired heart. Outside, the sea whispered against the cliffs, steady and indifferent to the way my entire world had fractured in the span of days.I sat on the couch with my knees drawn to my chest, staring at nothing.Angelina Siankovski.My mother had lived an entire life before me. A dangerous one. A brilliant one. A doo
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-01-22
Chapter: Chapter 79*Bianca's POV*The letter haunted me more than the contract.Ink could kill.Signatures could end lives.But words written in grief? Those had a way of surviving everything.She betrayed me.I’d read the line a hundred times over the past months, tracing the indent of my mother’s pen until the paper thinned beneath my fingers. For so long, I’d believed it was the final truth she’d left me — a warning, a judgment, a severed bond.Daniella Volkov.Violet’s mother.The woman whose photograph sat tucked inside a false drawer in Vincenzo’s archive, her arm looped through my mother’s like they w
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-01-22
Chapter: Chapter 78*Bianca's POV*I thought knowing would make it hurt less. It would make me finally be at peace.I was wrong.Knowing didn’t dull the pain — it sharpened it, gave it edges, gave it names. Knowing meant that every memory of my father now carried a second shadow behind it. Every kindness was suspect. Every silence deliberate.By the time Vincenzo summoned us to the archive room beneath the estate, my grief had already begun to mutate.Into focus.Into rage.The archive wasn’t meant for comfort. No windows. No art. Just steel cabinets, climate-controlled drawers, and a long table scarred by decades of decisions that had ruined lives.“This room,” Vincenzo said evenly, “exists
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-01-22
Chapter: Chapter 77*Bianca's POV*I didn’t sleep.Every time I closed my eyes, I saw my mother — not as she was in my memories, soft-spoken and distant, but as a stranger wearing her face. A woman with another name. Another bloodline. Another war stitched into her veins.Angelina Siankovski.The name tasted wrong in my mouth. Like a lie I had been forced to swallow my entire life.By morning, my grief had hardened into something sharper.I went looking for Nazyr.I found him where the house ended and the sea began — standing alone on the stone terrace, coat untouched by the wind, gaze fixed on the horizon like he was waiting for something that would never return.“You owe me everything,” I said.He didn’t turn. “I know.”I stepped closer. “Start talking.”Nazyr finally faced me. Up close, the resemblance was undeniable. The same eyes. The same stillness that came before violence. The same way emotions didn’t soften the face — they carved it deeper.“She was younger than me,” he began. “And smarter than
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-01-22
Chapter: Chapter 76*Bianca's POV*I was done being protected.That was the thought that followed me down the corridor, past the portraits, past the guards who straightened when they saw me, past the door everyone avoided unless summoned.The strategy room.I didn’t knock.Vincenzo looked up first. Nazyr was standing by the window, hands folded behind his back, the sea reflected in the hard lines of his face. Erico was seated near the table, already tense — like he’d felt me coming before he heard my steps.“Stop,” I said.Every movement froze.“No more fragments. No more half-truths,” I continued. “No more deciding what I can and cannot survive.”Vincenzo leaned back slowly. “Bianca—”“My mother was killed,” I cut in. “My father ordered my execution. I was hunted in my sleep and married into a war. Whatever you’re protecting me from no longer exists.”Nazyr turned.His eyes — so like mine it made my chest ache — held something heavy. Old.“You are asking for ghosts,” he said quietly.“I was raised by on
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-01-22
Chapter: Chapter 75*Bianca's POV*The worst part wasn’t that Antonio had seen me.It was that he had been close enough to notice details.The angle of the terrace.The way the light hit the ring.The timing — not before the marriage, not during, but after.He hadn’t guessed.Someone had told him.The strategy room felt smaller now. Not physically — but emotionally. The walls that had once felt solid seemed suddenly permeable, as if secrets could seep through stone.Vincenzo didn’t raise his voice.That was how I knew things had crossed into something colder.“No one leaves,” he said calmly. “Not staff. Not guards. Not family.”Mario straightened instantly. Giovanni’s humor vanished. Paolo’s expression closed like a door locking from the inside.Erico moved closer to me without thinking. His hand didn’t touch me, but his presence was unmistakable — a shield that didn’t ask permission.“The photo,” Paolo said quietly, holding up the locket. “It was taken from inside the perimeter. That narrows it.”“Not b
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-01-07
Masuk
