Midnight Between Us
Ava Sinclair is twenty-four, ambitious, and desperate to escape the emptiness of her carefully controlled life in New York City. By day, she works at a luxury publishing firm pretending everything is fine. By night, she hides heartbreak, family pressure, and a dangerous loneliness she refuses to admit.
Everything changes outside a Manhattan nightclub when she meets Luca DeLuca — a mysterious, irresistibly attractive stranger with blood on his hands and secrets buried deeper than the city itself.
After witnessing a violent attack connected to Luca, Ava is dragged into a hidden world of organized crime, betrayal, underground power, and forbidden desire. Luca is not just another dangerous man; he is the heir to one of New York’s most feared criminal empires, hunted by enemies who want him dead and haunted by a past he cannot escape.
The closer Ava gets to him, the harder it becomes to tell where fear ends and obsession begins.
Their connection is explosive, addictive, and destructive.
But Luca carries a secret capable of destroying them both — and when Ava uncovers the truth behind her own family’s connection to his world, love turns into a deadly game of loyalty, revenge, and survival.
In a city that never sleeps, trusting the wrong person can cost everything.
And loving Luca DeLuca may cost Ava her life.
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Chapter: Blood TiesThe cabin went silent. Ava stared at the photograph on Sofia’s phone, unable to look away from Luca’s face bruised, bleeding and still staring directly into the camera with cold defiance even while a gun pressed against his head.Something twisted painfully inside her chest. “He’s alive,” she whispered. “For now,” Sofia replied quietly. Ava looked up sharply. “You keep saying that.” “Because Vittorio doesn’t kill quickly when he’s angry.” Fear settled deeper into Ava’s stomach.Thunder shook the cabin windows while Sofia walked toward the kitchen counter, placing the phone down carefully as if it carried poison.Ava followed her immediately. “We have to help him.”Sofia looked at her with unreadable eyes. “You think I don’t know that?” “Then why are we standing here?”“Because charging into Vittorio DeLuca’s estate without a plan is suicide.” Ava clenched her fists.“Maybe Luca wouldn’t leave us behind.” Sofia’s expression darkened slightly. “No,” she admitted softly. “He wouldn’t.”The
Última actualización: 2026-05-21
Chapter: The Devil’s HouseThe car tore through Brooklyn at terrifying speed.Rain blurred the city outside into streaks of red brake lights and neon signs while Ava sat frozen in the passenger seat, trying to process everything at once.Luca was captured.Vittorio had him.And somehow she was trapped in a car with Luca’s wife racing toward a mafia compound in the middle of the night.Her life officially made no sense anymore.Sofia kept one hand on the steering wheel and the other near the gun resting beside her thigh.Calm.Focused.Deadly.Ava hated how naturally all of this seemed to come to her.“Where are they taking him?” Ava asked quietly.Sofia’s eyes stayed on the road.“Vittorio owns a private estate outside the city.”“A mansion?”“A fortress.”That sounded worse.Ava wrapped her arms around herself tightly.“What will they do to him?”Sofia didn’t answer immediately.And that silence was enough.Fear crawled slowly through Ava’s chest.“You said they wouldn’t kill him.”“I said not yet.”Ava looked
Última actualización: 2026-05-20
Chapter: The WifeRain poured endlessly over the Brooklyn Bridge.Ava stood frozen beside the wreckage of the motorcycle, her chest rising sharply as the woman stared back at her.Luca’s wife.The words echoed violently in her head.Impossible.Yet the woman standing in front of her looked exactly like someone who belonged in Luca’s dangerous world—beautiful, cold, perfectly controlled even with armed men hunting them.Sofia grabbed Ava’s wrist tightly.“We need to move.”Ava yanked her arm back immediately.“No.”Headlights flooded the bridge again behind them.The SUVs were getting closer.Sofia’s expression darkened. “This is not the time for jealousy.”“Jealousy?” Ava snapped. “You just told me you’re married to him!”“And if you want to scream about it, do it somewhere bullets aren’t flying.”Another gunshot cracked through the rain.Metal sparked beside them.Ava flinched hard.Sofia cursed under her breath, then pulled a handgun from beneath her coat with effortless familiarity.Definitely not n
Última actualización: 2026-05-19
Chapter: Nowhere to HideThe staircase spiraled endlessly beneath the city.Dark concrete walls.Dim emergency lights.The sound of footsteps hunting them from above.Ava could barely breathe as Luca pulled her downward two steps at a time. Her heels were useless now, one already broken from running across shattered glass.Behind them, Damien’s voice echoed calmly through the stairwell.“You know Father hates games.”Luca ignored him.Another gunshot exploded overhead.Concrete cracked beside Ava’s shoulder.She screamed.“Keep moving!” Luca barked.The lower they descended, the colder the air became. Somewhere below them, engines hummed faintly. Underground parking.Almost there.Luca finally shoved open a heavy steel door at the bottom of the staircase.A private garage waited beyond it.Luxury cars lined the walls beneath fluorescent lights, but Luca headed straight for a black motorcycle near the exit gate.Ava stared at him in disbelief.“You’re kidding.”“No.”“You want me to get on that while people ar
Última actualización: 2026-05-11
Chapter: The price of FearAva felt sick.The photograph stared back at her from Luca’s phone like a death sentence.Her mother looked unaware. Carrying groceries. Standing beneath the porch light outside her home in Connecticut.Normal.Safe.Except she wasn’t safe anymore.None of them were.“What the hell is this?” Ava whispered.Luca grabbed the phone back, jaw clenched so tightly she thought he might break his teeth.“My father.”“No,” she snapped, panic rising fast. “No, normal fathers don’t send death threats!”“He’s not normal.”“That’s your explanation?”Luca suddenly hurled the phone across the room.It shattered against the wall violently.Ava flinched.The silence afterward felt enormous.For the first time since meeting him, Luca looked completely out of control.Not dangerous.Desperate.He dragged both hands through his hair and turned away from her.“I told you this would happen.”“You also said you were protecting me!”“I am trying.”“Well, you’re failing!”The words hit hard.Luca closed his e
Última actualización: 2026-05-11
Chapter: Dangerous AttachmentsThe apartment felt colder after Damien left.Not physically.Emotionally.Like his presence had poisoned the air itself.Ava stood motionless near the kitchen counter, staring at the photograph of her apartment building while rain battered the broken doorway. Somewhere below, New York continued moving like nothing had happened.Cars honked.Sirens wailed.People laughed.Meanwhile her entire life had just been ripped apart in four hours.“You should’ve told me,” she whispered.Luca stayed silent.That silence hurt more than she expected.Ava turned toward him sharply.“You’re in the mafia.”“It’s complicated.”“No,” she snapped. “Complicated is cheating on someone or forgetting anniversaries. This is criminal empire level insanity.”Luca rubbed a hand over his face, exhausted.“I was trying to keep you out of it.”“You dragged me into gunfire!”“And I kept you alive.”The words hit hard because they were true.Ava hated that.She hated the way part of her still felt safer standing nea
Última actualización: 2026-05-11
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