Chapter: Chapter 149: the price of silence*Aria’s POV*Pain was a color. It was red, sharp, and blinding.I floated in a haze of antiseptic and beeping monitors. The world was a blur of white coats and hushed whispers. I tried to move my left arm, and a searing hot poker drove through my shoulder, dragging me back into the darkness.When I finally surfaced, the room was dim."Easy," a low voice rumbled.I turned my head. Lucian was sitting in a chair pulled right up to the bedside. He looked wrecked. His shirt was blood-stained – my blood. His eyes were red-rimmed, dark circles bruising the skin beneath them. He was holding my hand, his grip tight, as if he was afraid I would vanish if he let go."Lucian," I whispered, my throat dry."Don't try to move," he said, his voice cracking. "The bullet shattered the head of your humerus. They had to piece it back together with pins."My memory flashed back – the fight, Silas standing over Victor, the deafening bang, the feeling of flying backward."Silas?""Gone," Lucian said, his ex
Last Updated: 2026-05-02
Chapter: Chapter 148: Blood Of The Covenant*Aria's POV*The penthouse was a powder keg.Lucian hadn't slept. He sat in the armchair in the corner of the master bedroom, staring at the closed door, as if he could see through the walls to the guest room where Damian lay sleeping. The revelation of the fractal tattoo had shaken him to his core, fracturing the trust he had desperately tried to rebuild."He has to have an explanation," I said, pacing the length of the room. "A tattoo from years ago? It doesn't prove he’s the Sinner, Lucian. It just proves he likes math.""It proves he kept a secret," Lucian said, his voice rough. "In this family, secrets are bullets."Before I could respond, the penthouse intercom buzzed."Lucian," Rylan’s voice came through, tight with urgency. "You have visitors.""I didn't authorize any visitors.""It’s your father. He just walked in. He... he bypassed the elevator lock. He has a master key."Lucian stood up, his face hardening. "Bring him to the living room.""And... there’s another car behind
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Chapter: Chapter 147: The Sins Of The Father*Aria’s POV*The penthouse felt like a waiting room for a funeral.Two days had passed since the attack on the mountain. Two days of doctors shuffling in and out of the guest room where Damian lay healing, his torso wrapped in bandages, his face pale but his breathing steady. The doctors said he was strong. They said he would recover.But the silence in the living room was weak.Lucian stood by the window, staring out at the city lights. He hadn't slept. He was wearing the same clothes he had worn in Geneva – a dark suit, now wrinkled, the tie long gone. His phone sat on the coffee table in front of him, a black monolith on the glass surface.He was staring at it like it was a bomb."You have to call him," I said softly from the sofa. I was holding a cup of tea I hadn't sipped from. "You have to ask."Lucian didn't turn. "If he says yes... if he admits it... I don't know what I'll do.""If he is Il Pecatore," I said, my voice steady, "he already knows you know. He’s waiting. Silence i
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Chapter: Chapter 146: The Long Night*Aria’s POV*The pipe was a tomb of ice.I huddled in the darkness, Adrian pressed against my chest, his small body shaking with violent tremors. The sound of gunfire had stopped, replaced by the howling wind that whistled through the drainage tunnel like a dying animal."Mommy, I'm cold," Adrian whispered, his teeth chattering."I know, baby. I know." I wrapped my coat tighter around him, though the cold was seeping into my bones, making my limbs heavy and clumsy.I looked back toward the entrance of the pipe. It was a grey rectangle in the distance, filling with swirling snow. I couldn't see Damian anymore. I couldn't hear him.Had they taken him? Was he dead?The fear was a physical weight, pressing me down. But I couldn't stop. If I stopped, we froze."We have to keep moving," I whispered. "We have to find a place to hide until Daddy comes.""Is Daddy coming?""He's coming," I promised, though I didn't know if it was a lie. "He's flying fast."We crawled deeper into the pipe. The
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Chapter: Chapter 145: The Frozen Foundation*Aria's POV*The Catskills were beautiful in the winter, a stark, blinding white that seemed to erase the horrors of the city. The skeleton of the new house rose from the snow like a black ribcage against the sky.We had moved into the site three days ago.It wasn't a house yet – it was barely a shell. But Damian had prioritized the master suite and the security hub. The walls were up, the heated floors were working, and the "treehouse" playroom was sealed. It was a fortress in the making, rough and cold, but it was ours.I stood in the unfinished kitchen, watching the snow fall through the frame of the window that hadn't been installed yet. The wind howled through the gaps in the plywood, making the plastic sheeting flutter like ghost wings.Adrian was in the next room, playing with a set of magnetic tiles on the heated concrete floor. Damian was with him, sitting on a crate, his laptop balanced on his knee. He looked tired – he had been up all night monitoring the security feeds fro
Last Updated: 2026-04-29
Chapter: Chapter 143: The Geneva Protocol*Aria’s POVThe penthouse felt like a vacuum.Lucian stood by the window, the city lights reflecting in his dark eyes. The silence in the room was heavy, suffocating. The discovery of the Geneva IP address had shifted the ground beneath us. It wasn't just an external enemy anymore; it was a whisper of betrayal from the very heart of the empire."The subsidiary is Aethelgard Logistics," Lucian said, his voice void of emotion. "A shell company my father set up in the eighties to move money during the Cold War. It’s been dormant for a decade. The accounts were frozen, the staff let go."He turned to face me. "But according to Damian’s trace, the server was reactivated three months ago. From Geneva.""Your father," I whispered. "Or your mother.""Or someone using their credentials," Lucian said, though the doubt was evident in his eyes. "Victor has been in Zurich for months. He says he's managing the European expansion. But if he’s using Aethelgard..."He didn't finish the sentence. He di
Last Updated: 2026-04-29
kidnapped by the mafia
Violet Anderson, a young artist, lived in LA with her best friend, Tracy Derwin.
She was living a calm life and although she studied art, she was working in a small restaurant .
Vincenzo Mercanti, a 26 years old bachelor, king of the mafia in both, USA and Italy, cold hearted, merciless killer that lived a wealthy life.
One night, two incidents changed both their lives, when the mafia don wanted a little brunette to be his.
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"Who is she?" I asked my best man, Giovanni.
"I don't know. I came here with you man." He replied rolling his eyes.
"I want her." I said.
"What?" He turned abruptly and looked at me.
"Bring her to me Gio or I'll kill you myself." I shot him a cold glare.
"Okay."
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
Last Updated: 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
Last Updated: 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
Last Updated: 2026-01-07
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