“I’m done with you, Aurora Fernandez—if that’s even your name.” Mia’s voice trembled with rage as she turned for the door. “You’ll regret refusing me,” Aurora snapped behind her. Mia's hand touched the knob—just as it turned on its own. The door creaked open. Her heart dropped. Standing in the doorway was a face she never wanted to see again. Lucius Lovato. The cold, merciless CEO of the department store where she'd once worked. His eyes swept over her with visible disdain. “Who is this little thing, Eva?” he asked, his voice hoarse and biting. And just like that, Mia knew—she was trapped again. Wrongfully accused. Publicly humiliated. Betrayed by the only man she ever loved. Mia Simpson thought she'd hit rock bottom. Then came the offer—escape prison and start over, under one terrifying condition: seduce and marry Lucius Lovato, the mafia heir with a heart of ice and a soul no one dares touch. But Mia isn’t the fragile girl the world thinks she is. She agrees to the deal—on her own terms. Behind her innocent eyes burns a thirst for revenge, and the deeper she steps into the dark world of power, blood, and secrets, the more dangerous she becomes. Lucius, however, is not a man easily fooled. Every attempt to break him only draws him closer. And every secret Mia hides? He already suspects. As enemies close in and her hidden past begins to unravel, Mia discovers a horrifying truth—she is not just a girl caught in the middle of a mafia war. She is the legacy of something much greater… and much more feared. He was her mission. She was his undoing. But in the underworld, love might just be the most dangerous weapon of all.
View MoreMia shivered at Aurora's words and felt her heart tighten in fear and regret. "Right?" She muttered, jerking closer. Mia staggered back and reluctantly nodded her head, "Yes." Aurora smirked sinisterly and straightened up then slipped the cigarette stick between her red lips and took a drag at the cigarette."What is the deal?" Mia mustered courage and blurted out. She puffed out smoke teasingly, watching the dark air that hung between us. Mia coughed slightly and turned her face away with disdain scribbled across her face. "Don't worry, I will let you know what you should do when the time comes," she responded with an evil glee in her eyes. The moment she turned away from Mia, a black, sleek limo drove to the spot where they stood. Aurora sighed and threw the cigarette away then walked towards the car, gesturing for Mia. Mia snapped out of the daze she was in and slowly shuffled forward, hoping her trembling feet wouldn't send her to the ground. The closer she got to the lim
The woman's lips twitched up into a smirk and she threw her head back, chuckling darkly. Mia gulped hard as she watched her silently, pondering who the woman was and what power she had to get her out of detention despite the accusation hanging around her neck."Get ready to leave with me once it's time," she muttered and Mia quickly nodded, excitement surging through her. The woman turned to crawl back to the corner she had been in, but Mia grabbed her hand, stopping her."What is your name?" She asked.The woman froze and her fist clenched, her eyes darkening."How did you know that I wasn't the Mafia queen?" Mia asked.The woman craned her neck back and smirked viciously then tore Mia's grip off her hand."You should only care about getting out of here alive," she muttered, and before Mia could let her words sink in, she was gone.She didn't understand what the woman meant, but she decided to heed the words and concentrate on getting out alive.She lay down on the cold floor and s
Mia jerked up, her widened eyes almost popping out of their sockets as Mia stared at him. "Justin?" Mia gasped, her lips trembling in shock. "You see? What more lies are you going to tell, huh?" The man said, waving his fingers at Mia. "I'm sorry, they threatened to kill me if I didn't spill the truth," Justin blurted out without a tinge of remorse in his eyes.Mia heard her heart shatter into pieces as the man she had wholeheartedly loved made her take a fall for a crime she had never thought of committing.To her, Justin was the only one who could ever love her. But now, everything that she had thought was true was all a lie. A deep lie that she never saw from the beginning."How could you do this to me, Justin?" Mia whispered in a cracked voice, her heart burning in rage and betrayal."I'm sorry, boss, you've got to understand," he muttered.Mia's heart clenched and she growled loudly and then raced toward him, blinded by anger and pain."Hey!" The cop growled, but before he cou
No matter how Mia tried to convince them with words, none of them seemed to believe her.She sighed after her failed attempt for half an hour and slid down on the ground, ruffling her disheveled hair.“You think you can fool us with that puppy face? People with your kind of face commit the worst crimes,” a cop barked at her, hitting his baton on the bars.Mia looked at him with tears in her eyes but said nothing. She was tired of trying to state her innocence to people who wouldn't believe a single word she said.“Do you even have proof that I own the bag? Have you tried to ask yourselves if that bag was planted in my room?" Mia suddenly spoke up as the cop turned to leave.He stopped walking and swerved around, a smirk creeping into his face.“Your neighbors said they saw you with the bag," The man retorted and Mia's heart shrank.She dug her fingers into her palm as she fumed in anger. Those people knew nothing about her and hardly behaved like she existed, but they didn't hesit
The street was lonely and darkness had already taken over the sky. Mia was already used to the environment and didn't care about the dangers that could hit her at that place.But with the faint footsteps that echoed behind her, she could feel her heart tighten in fear for the first time in the three years she had been taking that route back home.She paused and watched the ground, silently searching for the emergence of another shadow behind hers.After some seconds passed and no one walked past her, she sighed in relief and kept walking.But the moment she took a few steps forward, the sound of footsteps that didn't belong to her filled her ears again.Mia's breathing grew raspy and heavy as she clutched hard onto the bag that her boyfriend had dropped earlier at her workplace.“It's a thief, I know it's a thief," she whispered to herself, daring not to let go of the bag's sling or slow down her pace.She kept walking without stopping, her heart thumping loudly in her chest and fear
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