The Mafia King's Contract Bride
“They say you bury people alive,” I suddenly blurted and regretted it immediately.
He slowly lifted his eyes to me. Cold, merciless, yet beautiful enough to ruin lives. My hands trembled.
“Only my enemies.”
“You are my enemy,” I whispered, because he was.
“No,” he said and slowly rose from the chair and stopped right in front of me. “You're worse.”
Seraphina Moretti has spent her entire life being unwanted. Being the illegitimate daughter of a powerful family, she was treated more like a stain than blood.
Now, she must marry Damian De Luca, New York’s most feared mafia king to save her family's face.
She has always lived like a prisoner, what could be worse?
Well, a lot.
Damian is cold, ruthless, and completely incapable of love. Yet, beneath his cruel reputation lies a dangerously protective man who would burn cities for the woman he swore meant nothing to him. A woman he married for power and control.
What begins as a forced marriage soon becomes a deadly game of obsession, betrayal, and forbidden desire.
And in a world built on blood and lies, falling in love may be the most dangerous thing of all.
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Chapter: Chapter 6DAMIAN I walked into the hall and Dominic stood over a man at the far end. He was tied to an electric seat, his body battered but not to my satisfaction. I wouldn't kill him yet, a slow death would be best for a bastard like him.He froze the moment he saw me and Dominic turned sharply. “Boss.” he bowed and shifted to greet Matteo. I walked towards the bastard but a sound from outside made me halt, and I moved before I could register where it was coming from. I stepped out and suddenly stopped at the scene in front of me. Seraphina, out of the car. Exactly where I told her not to be, a battered Christy trying to fight an armed man in a mask. The man raised his gun and I crossed the distance immediately. My hand closed around the gunman's wrist, redirecting the barrel toward the concrete a half second before he fired. The shot cracked into the ground and I broke his grip on the weapon, drove my elbow into his jaw, and had him on his knees before he understood the fight was already
Last Updated: 2026-07-03
Chapter: CHAPTER 5SERAMy father stood immediately after Damian left and walked towards me. I stood up in fear and shifted slightly.“You tried to run,” he stated firmly, like he was so sure of it.I lowered my head and stuttered. “I—I couldn't do it,” “Of course, you never want to do anything. As long as it involves family,” Isabella blurted out and my father's fist tightened.“Do you know what you have done?” he asked and I shook my head in fear. “Now he has cancelled the wedding, do you know the deals I would have gotten with that wedding?” I shook my head again, but this time with relief. I was happy the wedding wouldn't hold, because a wedding meant more eyes, more performance from my family, and more of my father using me to get what he wanted. “I don't want a wedding eith—” I started before the palm flew across my face. “Bastard,” my stepmother cursed. “You ungrateful piece of shit! You think what you want matters?” She asked, but I was too busy nursing my pains to answer. She grabbed my ar
Last Updated: 2026-06-18
Chapter: CHAPTER 4DAMIAN I arrived twenty minutes early. It was not by accident. Keeping to time counts as one of my rules. I adhere to it and so, I never forgive anyone who fails to. Zach Moretti met me at the door himself,dressed up as hospitality."Mr. De Luca." He extended a hand I didn't take. "Thank you for coming. Everything is prepared in the reception room.”I walked past him without a word and Matteo tailed behind. The housekeeper led us towards the reception. The room was exactly as staged as I expected. Zach's wife sat stiffly near the window, her daughter beside her, composed, watching me the way people watch something they're trying to decide whether to fear or charm. A handful of staff arranged at the edges of the room like furnitures.But she was not there. I turned to Zach who had walked in, but I didn't ask immediately. I let the silence stretch, watched Zach's composure strain under the weight of it, watched his wife's hands fold a little tighter in her lap. People revealed mor
Last Updated: 2026-06-18
Chapter: CHAPTER 3SERA“I won't do it,” I whispered and my father looked at me for the first time since I walked into his office. I hadn't slept ever since those words came out of Damian's lips last night. I had cried and thought all through the night and I had made up my mind, I wasn't going to marry that man. Never. My father slowly got up from his seat, anger all over his face. He walked slowly towards me and I braced myself for his harsh words, but his palm flying across my face was what I didn't expect.“You ungrateful piece of shit,” he said and dragged me closer, making me stagger. “You think you're worth getting married to Damian?” I wiped the little cut on my lips and looked at him, my eyes already welling up. “Then let me not marry him,” I cried. “Isabella is worth it, convince him to–” my words were cut off with another hit. “Don’t you ever mention my daughter's name, ever!” He barked and I nodded. “I am your daughter too!” I cried. “When would you ever see that?” I asked in tears. He
Last Updated: 2026-06-18
Chapter: CHAPTER 2DAMIAN The Moretti mansion smelled like desperation wearing expensive perfume and I have been in enough rooms like this one to know the difference between real power and the performance of it. Crystal chandeliers, imported marble, and a string quartet tucked into the corner like this was a different era entirely. Zach Moretti had built all of this on borrowed fear and other people's silence, and tonight that silence had a price tag attached to it.I moved through the party without stopping, and people stepped aside without being asked. They always did, though I had stopped noticing it years ago. Attention was simply the cost of being me, and I had never found it particularly interesting. Matteo fell into pace beside me, just half a pace behind, the way he always did. “Moretti says he's ready for you,” he informed quietly.“Good,” I replied flatly. “It's good to see he loves his life.”************I saw her before she saw me. She was moving along the far edge of the hall, a tray b
Last Updated: 2026-06-18
Chapter: CHAPTER 1SERAIsabella was a goddess. Everybody wanted to be like her, including me. I wanted to be loved like her, to be seen by my father like her but obviously, I was asking for too much, a whole lot if we were being honest. Isabella is my stepsister, and it's her twenty-fifth birthday. She had pulled in half of Manhattan's elite — jewels, perfume, laughter that cost money. I had ironed my best dress for the evening, a plain navy thing that had been washed so many times the colour had started apologizing for itself. I picked up the tray and made my way to the kitchen when I heard them. Two women, standing near the alcove just off the main hallway, champagne flutes in hand, speaking the way people speak when they assume nobody important is listening.“---apparently, there's another daughter. Some illegitimate thing the father keeps private.”I slowed down. "Hidden for good reason, I'm sure," the second woman said, and laughed softly. "I heard she's hard to look at. Nothing like Isabella
Last Updated: 2026-06-18
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