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Elara

I started my own business that spring, something I had wanted to do since long before Alexander and I had ever met, back when the idea of building anything for myself had felt impossibly out of reach given everything else consuming our lives.

Alexander supported the venture from the very beginning, helping me navigate the logistics of launching a company, connecting me with people who understood distribution and manufacturing in ways I didn't yet, and providing the initial capital I nee
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  • Contracted to My Fiance’s Mafia Don   86

    ElaraI didn't sleep at all that night.David was settled in the guest house across the property. Alexander remained locked in his study, wrestling with whatever had taken hold of him after our conversation on the porch. I found myself in the nursery instead, watching Michael breathe steadily in his crib, trying to make sense of how our family had ended up back in the middle of another crisis so soon after we had finally found something resembling peace.David is back, I thought, the reality of it still difficult to fully absorb. He claims he has changed since everything at The Sanctum. Alexander refuses to believe a single word of it.I no longer knew who deserved my trust in this situation.I walked to the nursery window and looked out toward the guest house, which sat dark and quiet across the property. David was likely asleep by now, or at least pretending to be for the benefit of anyone watching.A soft knock sounded at the nursery door behind me."Elara." Vivian's voice carried

  • Contracted to My Fiance’s Mafia Don   85

    AlexanderThe gate opened just before noon.I watched from the study window as a black sedan made its way up the driveway, its windows tinted and its exterior deliberately unmarked, the kind of vehicle designed to attract as little attention as possible. I knew who had arrived before the driver's door had even opened, a certainty that settled into my chest with a weight I hadn't expected after everything that had already happened between us.David stepped out of the car, and the sight of him caught me off guard despite my preparation for this moment. He was thinner than I remembered from the last time we had spoken, his face gaunt in a way that suggested the months since The Sanctum had cost him more than his freedom alone. Grey had begun creeping into his hair at the temples, and his suit fit him poorly, as though he had borrowed it from someone who cared little about appearances. But his eyes hadn't changed at all. Those grey eyes, the ones he had inherited directly from me, moved

  • Contracted to My Fiance’s Mafia Don   84

    Elara I started my own business that spring, something I had wanted to do since long before Alexander and I had ever met, back when the idea of building anything for myself had felt impossibly out of reach given everything else consuming our lives. Alexander supported the venture from the very beginning, helping me navigate the logistics of launching a company, connecting me with people who understood distribution and manufacturing in ways I didn't yet, and providing the initial capital I needed to get everything off the ground. However, he made a point of stepping back from the actual decisions, allowing me to build the business according to my own instincts rather than shaping it into something that reflected his preferences rather than mine. "This needs to be entirely yours," he told me during one of our early conversations about the launch. "I'll help however you need me to, but the vision has to come from you." My swimwear line took off faster than either of us anticipated,

  • Contracted to My Fiance’s Mafia Don   83

    AlexanderWe moved into a new home together, leaving the mansion behind for something considerably smaller and far less burdened by everything that had happened within its walls. This house felt different the moment we walked through the door for the first time, quieter in a way that had nothing to do with square footage and everything to do with the absence of the history that had followed us everywhere else."I want to leave the life," I told Elara one evening, the two of us sitting together in the living room while Michael played on the floor nearby."Alexander, that's an enormous decision. Are you certain you've thought through everything it actually involves?""I'm completely serious about this," I said. "I want to leave all of it behind. The empire, the territory, the violence that keeps finding its way back into our lives no matter how far we think we've moved past it.""Alexander, I know how much you've built. I know what stepping away from that actually means for you, not jus

  • Contracted to My Fiance’s Mafia Don   82

    ElaraHe came home that evening, exactly as he promised he would.I was sitting in Vivian's living room when he arrived, Michael already asleep in the guest room down the hall, my heart racing in a way that made it difficult to sit still while I waited for him to walk through the door."Elara.""Alexander."He stood in the doorway for a moment before stepping fully into the room, and I could see the effort it was taking him to hold himself steady in front of me."I'm not going to apologize for what I did," he said. "I'm not sorry for protecting you and Michael from a man who intended to hurt either of you. I need you to understand that much before we go any further.""I know that already.""But I am sorry for not telling you before I acted. I'm sorry for not trusting you enough to include you in that decision, and I'm sorry for making choices that affected both of us without giving you any say in the outcome."I looked at him carefully, searching for sincerity beneath his words, and f

  • Contracted to My Fiance’s Mafia Don   81

    Alexander She left. Not permanently, and not as a decision to leave our marriage behind entirely, but she packed a bag for herself and Michael and went to stay with Vivian for a few days, telling me she needed space to think through everything that had happened. Understanding her decision didn't make it any easier to accept. The house felt unbearably quiet without either of them in it, and I found myself standing in rooms that had once felt full simply because they were now so obviously empty. I had killed a man to protect her. I had done it without consulting her, without giving her any say in a decision that directly affected our lives and our family, and she hadn't asked me to take that action on her behalf in the first place. Why hadn't I told her before acting? Why hadn't I given her the choice to weigh in on something that concerned her own safety as much as mine? Because I'm still the same person, I finally admitted to myself, sitting alone in the study where this enti

  • Contracted to My Fiance’s Mafia Don   40

    Alexander The room was dark. I knelt on the floor with my hands tied behind my back. My chest was soaked — not from the bullet wound this time, but from the beating Vincent's men had given me the moment I walked through the gate. ‘No weapons. No backup.’ ‘Just me, on my knees, bleeding twice ov

  • Contracted to My Fiance’s Mafia Don   4

    ALEXANDER David stood there with a smug grin that made my blood simmer as he looked at Elara like she was a new car he had just bought with my money. He had no idea that the woman standing next to him had already been claimed. Not by a ring, but by the memory of my hands on her skin. I kept my

  • Contracted to My Fiance’s Mafia Don   3

    ELARA Four days. It had been four days since the club. Four days since I let a stranger touch me in ways David never had. I felt guilty, yes. But I also felt alive. My skin still tingled when I thought about the man’s hands. Rough, scarred, possessive. He hadn't treated me like a mannequin. He h

  • Contracted to My Fiance’s Mafia Don   2

    ALEXANDER The club was quiet. That was the only reason I tolerated The Sanctum. It wasn't like the chaotic gambling floors of my casinos or the loud, desperate energy of the Strip. It was dark, smelled of leather and people knew better than to speak to me. I sat in the private suite, swirling a g

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