Bound To The Mafia
Isadora’s life takes an unexpected turn when she’s forced into an engagement with the enigmatic and ruthless Luca Morretti. Known as a man with a dark past and an iron grip on the underworld, Luca is as dangerous as he is captivating. Trapped in his lavish mansion, Isadora struggles to maintain her independence while navigating his world of secrets, power, and bloodstained promises.
But Luca’s obsession with her isn’t just about control—it’s personal. He knows more about her than he should, and every moment they spend together makes it harder for Isadora to resist the pull he has on her.
As their lives intertwine, Isadora is faced with a choice: play by Luca’s rules and uncover the truth behind his motives, or risk losing the people she loves and her chance at freedom.
In a world where loyalty is tested, danger lurks around every corner, and love is as perilous as betrayal, will Isadora survive being bound to Luca’s vow? Or will she fall for the man who holds her fate in his hands?
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Chapter: Chapter 128EMILIOThe report comes in just after two a.m.—short, frantic, and laced with fear.She’s alive.Of course she is.I sip my coffee slowly, the bitter liquid grounding me in the stillness of my hotel room. The lights are off, except for the eerie blue flicker of monitors in front of me—security feeds, social media threads, encrypted messages looping in real time. All eyes on Morretti’s estate, and none of them mine. Not directly.The man I sent wasn't supposed to kill her. That was never the plan. Death is final. It ends things. And I'm not interested in endings. Not yet.He was meant to scare her. Shake her. Remind her that she isn’t untouchable, no matter how many armed guards Luca wraps her in. Just a ghost in the night, a whisper of threat she’d carry with her into the altar.But the idiot panicked. Let his hand slip. Collateral damage, they’d call it. A shallow stab wound that could’ve been deeper, blood spilled that wasn’t meant to be spilled. Unfortunate, y
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Chapter: Chapter 127ISADORA The estate’s marble floors gave way to dewy grass, soft beneath my bare feet but too cold, too damp—like even the earth wanted to warn me off. The night air hit sharp, slicing through the silk of my gown and skin like a blade dipped in memory.I needed to breathe. But all I could do was burn.My fingers shook. My chest felt too tight to hold air. So I went to the only place that had ever felt real here—the garden.Fairy lights still shimmered in the trees, soft and gold, like they hadn’t witnessed death wrapped in photo paper hours ago.Near the fountain, Laura and Rafael stood close—too close. Their heads bent toward each other like a secret was dangling between their lips.Laura saw me first. Her mouth parted, eyes wide. Rafael’s jaw tensed. But I didn’t stop. I didn’t give them the dignity of a nod, not even a glare. I walked past them like smoke—drifting, shapeless, done with being held.I collapsed into one of the garden chairs. Cold iron met my spi
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Chapter: Chapter 126LUCAShe looked like vengeance dressed in silk. Wrath with a pulse. My bride, my ruin, standing there in the golden light of dawn like she'd been forged in it.And I’d done this.I’d let her find it.Not because I wanted her to hurt—God, never that—but because I underestimated the one thing I should’ve worshipped from the beginning: her will.“You weren’t supposed to see that photo,” I’d said like a damn fool.And she shot back, “Yeah? Well, I did. And now I want the truth.”Of course she did.Isadora never begged for peace.She took it.Or burned the world down trying.I stepped forward, but she held her ground like a queen on her battlefield. No flinch. No fear. Her eyes were wild, red-rimmed, furious—and alive.“You want the truth?” I asked quietly. “Fine. I’ll give it to you, Princess. But once I do, there’s no crawling back into the dark. There’s no pretending you can unsee any of it.”Her voice didn’t waver. “I’m not the one pretending anymore.”
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Chapter: Chapter 125 ISADORA The rehearsal dinner was golden. Candlelight kissed the rims of wine glasses, soft music floated like silk through the garden, and laughter echoed in the air like the world had never broken me. For the first time in weeks, I let myself breathe. No suspicion. No shadow. Just tonight. Luca kissed my shoulder before the toast, leaned in and murmured, “You’re glowing, Princess.” And for once, I didn’t roll my eyes. I let him touch me. I let the warmth soak into my skin like I hadn’t been cold for days. Tomorrow, I’d be a bride. Tonight, I was free. I danced with my mother. Took tequila shots with Laura—yes, even she managed a smile that wasn’t forced. Rafael spun me once beneath the fairy lights and said, “You’re trouble,” with that crooked grin of his that made me laugh like I hadn’t buried pain under my ribs. For two hours, I let it be real. No questions. No weight. No doubt. But the moment I walked
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Chapter: Chapter 124LAURAThe rooftop bar was closed at this hour, but Rafael didn’t need permission to occupy a space. He owned every room he entered, even one perched above a city still asleep.He was already there, leaning against the railing like it might collapse under the weight of what he was holding back. Hair tousled, black shirt rolled up at the sleeves, that brooding, unreadable look on his face that used to piss me off—and now made my mouth dry.“You’re late,” he said without looking at me.I didn’t rush to close the distance. I took my time, each step a silent declaration.“And you’re still a control freak,” I replied, coming to stand between his legs as he pulled me in, no hesitation. His hands slid to my waist like they belonged there. Because lately, they did.He kissed me—not softly. Like he needed to forget what we were doing. What we were risking. Like I was the only place he could breathe.When he finally pulled away, he kept his forehead against mine. “She s
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Chapter: Chapter 123ISADORA Luca laughed at something Rafael said, the low rumble of it curling around the hallway walls and crawling under my skin. I paused at the archway, watching the two of them with narrowed eyes. The study was awash in golden light—books, whiskey glasses, the faint scent of cigars and secrets. Luca’s posture was relaxed, his hand sweeping casually as he poured a drink. Rafael leaned against the desk, arms crossed, smirking. Like nothing had ever shifted between them. But I remembered. I remembered Luca storming into that garden, face thundercloud-dark. I remembered Rafael's stare—tight-lipped, unreadable. Whatever truce they’d shaken hands on, it wasn’t clean. So why did they act like it was? The door creaked as I stepped back. I didn’t want them seeing me. Not yet. Not when my head buzzed with questions they both refused to answer. Later, when we were alone in the bedroom, I tried to press him gently. “You and Rafael seem... good ag
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Contract Marriage With My Billionaire Boss
“We’re friends,” I said, voice barely steady.
Aaron’s lips curled, slow and cruel. “No, we’re not.”
“Friendship’s too pure for this.”
His hand slid to my waist, hot and claiming as he yanked me flush against him.
“Do friends kiss like this?”
He kissed me. Hard. Possessive.
“Or grab each other like this?”
A squeeze to my ass. A gasp.
“Or think filthy little thoughts?”
His breath burned against my ear. “Touch themselves to it?”
My cheeks flamed. My body betrayed me.
“Stop lying, Venus.”
His voice was a growl.
“I feel it. Every time I’m near you.”
I whispered, “But you don’t even like me.”
His smile was pure sin.
“I don’t have to like you to fuck you.”
Then the offer:
“Let’s get it out of our system. No lies. No strings. Just truth.”
He grabbed my chin, eyes lit with hunger.
“Say the word, princess.”
A whisper against my lips—
“I’ll ruin you.”
And God help me…
I wanted him to.
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Aaron Sinclair needs a bride to claim his inheritance. Venus Carter needs a miracle to save her dying mother. What begins as a cold contract marriage spirals into a dangerous game of buried trauma, stolen identities, and forbidden attachment. He’s ruthless, closed off, and refuses to love. She’s resilient, lost, and refuses to stay unloved.
But when secrets unravel revealing a stolen childhood, a tragic past, and a vengeful stepmother, their fake marriage is the only thing standing between them and destruction.
In a world ruled by power and silence, will love dare to speak first or break them both instead?
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Chapter: Chapter 122VENUS There’s a special kind of madness that grows in captivity. It doesn’t happen all at once. It builds. Quietly and patiently. Like moss creeping up a stone wall, covering everything until you can’t remember what the bare surface even looked like. That’s what I was now. Covered in it. Wrapped tight in Gerald’s madness, in the stink of stale fear and the thick silence of this cabin that had become my purgatory. Every day was the same. Every breath felt borrowed. But this day—this particular day—I felt it in my gut. Something had shifted. The air smelled different. Charged. And shifts? Shifts meant opportunity. --- Gerald had gone out early that morning. Same as every day, his strange little ritual that took him beyond the treeline where I couldn’t see him. I didn’t know what he did out there, and honestly, I didn’t care. It was the only window of time I had to remember what my own heartbeat sounded like without his eyes on me. For the last three days, I’d been working o
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Chapter: Chapter 121AARONIt’s a special kind of hell to know that you were so close… and you failed.The cottage hadn’t left my head since the day I walked into that room. Every time I closed my eyes, I saw the cuffs. I saw the way they were bolted to the bedframe, the hair caught in the hinge, the faint smell of her clinging to the sheets.My wife. My Venus.She’d been there. She’d been that close. And I hadn’t found her in time.Two weeks had passed since that day. Fourteen days. Three hundred and thirty-six hours. Each one a noose tightening around my chest. It's been two months since I lost Venus. TWO MONTHS. Sixty two days. One thousand four hundred and eighty-eight hours. We’d scoured every lead, pulled every string, bled money and resources into the search. Gerald Marlowe had vanished off the face of the earth, and he’d taken her with him. No transactions, no sightings, no whispers on the black-market channels we’d tapped into.It was like the bastard had dug a hole under reality and crawled ins
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Chapter: Chapter 120VENUSThere’s a certain kind of terror that settles deep in your bones when you know you only get one chance. One single shot, and if you miss it, you’ll never get another.That’s what it felt like. Every second with Gerald in that cabin was a countdown not to freedom, but to the part of me that was still alive burning out completely. I’d already felt pieces of myself slip away every time I lied, every time I smiled when I wanted to scream, every time I let him touch me without flinching.And I knew—I knew—if I stayed here much longer, there’d be nothing left to save. Not even for Aaron.So the plan came simple. Brutal. Dangerous.I wasn’t waiting for a miracle.I was going to carve my own way out.---The next day, Gerald woke me before dawn. He was humming, that same broken tune he always hummed when he thought he was happy. He laid out breakfast, told me I looked beautiful even though I knew I was a ghost in torn pajamas, and pressed a kiss to my forehead before heading out again.
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Chapter: Chapter 119VENUSWhen consciousness finally clawed its way back to me, it came in fragments. My eyelids felt like they had been weighed down with lead, my head thick, foggy, heavy as if it no longer belonged to me. I blinked once, twice, and the blurred shapes around me began to sharpen, not into comfort, not into safety, but into something unfamiliar.The first thing I noticed was the smell. Damp wood. Stale air. A faint hint of pine seeping through the cracks of whatever place we were in. The mattress beneath me was thin, lumpy, covered with a scratchy blanket that smelled like dust and old smoke. The walls weren’t painted. Bare wood planks, some splintering, some water-stained. A small window high up on one wall, no curtains, no glass. just wooden boards nailed shut from the outside.The other cottage had been… if not home, then at least an imitation of it. This? This was a hiding place. Temporary. Makeshift. A hole dug into the world for a man on the run.And sitting there, on the edge of th
최신 업데이트: 2025-07-30
Chapter: Chapter 118AARONThe cottage sat like a secret on the edge of nowhere.Dark wood. Dead leaves. Silence thick enough to choke on.I killed the engine, stepped out, and let the cold air bite into me. My boots crunched on gravel as I approached, every instinct screaming that this was it. That she was close. That I was finally standing on the line between hell and salvation.The front door wasn’t locked. It creaked when I pushed it open, dust motes drifting in the beam of my flashlight. The smell hit me first—not rot, not mold. Something else. Stale air, faint lavender, and underneath it… fear.The cottage was clean. Too clean. No mugs on the counter. No trash in the bin. No stray hair in the sink. Like no one had ever lived here. Like the place had been scrubbed raw.Except I knew someone had been here.Venus had been here.I moved room to room, my breath sharp, my gun steady. Nothing. Empty closets. A stripped-down bathroom. A kitchen that looked like a showroom piece. It wasn’t until I reached th
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Chapter: Chapter 117VENUSThe silence wasn’t just thick anymore, it was sentient. It no longer filled the room passively; it loomed. It listened. It judged. Every second inside this place crawled across my skin like something alive. Something waiting. Gerald had grown quieter, but not calmer. There was a new edge to him now, a kind of manic energy that didn’t speak in volume but in tension. In the twitch at the corner of his mouth. In the pause between his movements. In the way he stood by the window and stared through the blinds, like the trees themselves were conspiring against him.He was unraveling. Slowly. Horribly.And I said nothing.I didn’t ask anymore. Didn’t cry. Didn’t scream. Not because I’d learned to cope but because I’d stopped hoping.Escape? That was a fairytale I no longer read.I lived by rhythms now. Not freedom. Not survival. Just cycles. I woke up. I ate if he asked me to. I moved when told. I listened. I responded. I obeyed, even when it killed me inside.The strange thing about i
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Chapter: Chapter Six: The Anatomy Of FireELARAThe body remembers what the soul tries to forget.Pain didn’t announce itself anymore. It hummed. A silent, steady rhythm under my skin, a haunting baseline to every movement I made. Recovery wasn’t linear. It wasn’t poetic. It was cruel. Relentless.Physical therapy began two weeks after the bandages came off. I’d assumed surviving meant I’d done the hard part.No.The hard part was learning to live again.Every morning started with an ache so deep it felt ancestral. My legs, though miraculously spared from the worst of the impact, trembled when I stood. The bones in my arms screamed with the memory of catching myself as I fell. The skin around my ribs, tight and new, pulled like it didn’t trust me to move.The therapist was a kind woman named Alina, with a voice like chamomile and eyes that didn’t flinch when they saw my scars. She spoke Italian, but her patience translated well enough. I didn’t speak back—not yet. But she understood the winces, the sharp intakes of breath, th
최신 업데이트: 2025-07-21
Chapter: Chapter Five: Shattered Face, Sharpened MindELARA The days that followed the cemetery visit were quiet. Not peaceful—no, peace was a luxury I no longer recognized. But still. Muted. Like the world knew something inside me had shifted. Like the air around me was afraid of the thing I was becoming. I stopped asking questions like "Why me?" or "How could he?" I already knew the answers. Evil doesn’t always arrive in a storm. Sometimes, it slides into your bed and calls itself husband. Sometimes, it smiles at your child and whispers promises it intends to shatter. --- The doctors said it was time. Time to remove the bandages. I sat on the edge of the hospital bed, my fingers clenched into tight fists. The mirror across the room had been covered with a sheet since the day I arrived. I hadn’t asked why. I didn’t need to. Even before anyone said a word, I knew. My body remembered every crack of bone. Every splinter of rock that kissed my flesh as I fell. My mind still echoed with the pain. My voice, crushed and dis
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Chapter: Chapter Four: Hollow Stones and Broken VowsELARAA few days passed—or bled—like they always did.Each hour slipped beneath my skin like frost. The silence no longer frightened me; it had become a roommate, a reflection. The only language I spoke now was quiet: the hum of machines, the rustle of a nurse’s shoes, the occasional click of Damien’s tablet.But inside?Inside, I was screaming.I still hadn’t seen my face. The doctors said the bandages could come off soon. I didn’t want them to. I wasn’t ready to look at the woman in the mirror, if she could even be called that anymore.They told me I crushed into stone when I fell. That the rocks had shattered parts of my cheekbones, torn skin, fractured the cartilage of my nose, broken my ribs. That my voice box had been nearly crushed by the pressure of the fall and the impact of hitting water with such force. The sea hadn't saved me. It swallowed me and spit me out broken.I didn’t understand why I lived.Why Damien Rhys pulled me from the water when he could’ve walked away.He s
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Chapter: Chapter Three: A Stranger with Ashes on His HandsELARADays didn’t pass. They bled.Sleep wasn’t sleep. Not really. It was darkness soaked in static, smeared with foggy flashes of memory and pain. My body never found rest. My mind never truly woke. I drifted between numbness and nightmares, lost in a loop of silent torment.Nurses came and went. They whispered in gentle tones, as though afraid I’d shatter from the sound. They adjusted wires and drips, fluffed pillows, checked vitals. Their kindness was clinical. Routine. A part of the job.And Damien Rhys?He stayed.Not like a savior. Not like a friend. He didn’t offer flowers or empty promises. He didn’t talk just to fill the silence. He simply sat. By the window. In the chair beside me. Watching. Waiting. Always there, as though he was guarding something sacred.He didn’t treat me like I was fragile.He treated me like I was unfinished.My vocal cords were still healing or that’s what they told me. But the silence wasn’t only physical. It felt deeper, older. Like grief had clawed
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Chapter: Chapter Two: The Sea Doesn't WeepELARA The world didn’t come back all at once. It slithered. Pain, first. Not the sharp kind. The kind that clung. The kind that pulsed like an echo under skin. Like my body remembered being broken more clearly than it remembered being whole. Then sound crept in slow and hesitant. The sterile beep of machines, the soft whoosh of something mechanical, and a faint humming I couldn’t place. Like someone had left the world on low volume. Then came light. Faint, too bright all at once. My eyelids twitched. One gave in. The other stayed shut, heavy and swollen. My head throbbed. My throat felt like it had been lined with razors. Every breath came in struggle. I tried to move. Nothing responded. My arms were lead. My legs didn’t exist. I opened my mouth to cry, scream, ask. Anything. Nothing came out. Not even air. Panic bloomed fast. It started in my chest and clawed its way up. I fought the weight pressing down on me. My heart slammed against my ribs like a prisoner desperate for es
최신 업데이트: 2025-07-13
Chapter: Chapter One: The Edge of the EndELARA Golden hour cloaked the Amalfi cliffs in amber and honey. The wind was soft, sweet, and almost cruel in how gently it touched me as if mocking the ache I carried. I stood on the marble terrace of the villa, the sea stretching endlessly ahead, pretending I belonged in this postcard-perfect moment. I didn't. Milo’s laughter rang behind me like church bells. I turned, caught sight of my son—three years old, barefoot, chasing his own shadow across the tiles. His curls bounced as he ran, joy painting his cheeks. That boy was my everything. My reason. My breath. I smiled. Or tried to. "Wine?" Ethan's voice slid beside me, warm and smooth like polished lies. I looked up to see him holding out a glass. His smile was practiced, charming, so damn sweet it made my stomach twist. "Thank you," I said, taking the glass. Sienna laughed behind him. I glanced over. She was sprawled on the lounger beside the infinity pool, her legs crossed, sunglasses perched high, a sheer wrap clinging
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