Mag-log inOn her 21st birthday, Elena's world shatters. Betrayed and discarded by her wealthy boyfriend, she stumbles into a bar to drown her sorrows, only to witness a masked man and his crew ruthlessly executing a traitor. Mistaking it for a film shoot, she brushes it off as a drunken hallucination. But the nightmare is only beginning. The next day, her gambling-addicted father sells her off like property, to none other than the infamous Mafia boss of the Velgrave Gang. The most dangerous man in the state. A billionaire. A killer. And her ex-boyfriend's uncle.
view more[Elena's POV]The wax cracked with a dry snap.My fingers, still trembling from the adrenaline and the cold hospital floor, fumbled to pull out the single sheet of thick, cream-colored paper inside.There was no letterhead. No ransom demand. No threat typed out in cut-out magazine letters like in the movies.Just a sharp, angular and hurried handwriting.E,40.7794° N, 73.9632° WToday. 17:00.Come alone., Ryan C.I stared at the signature, my breath catching in my throat.Ryan C.The name echoed in the hollow chambers of my memory. Ryan. It was my maternal grandfather's name. And...My mother's voice from years ago floated back to me. “We gave Adrian your grandfather's middle name, you know. Adrian Ryan Campbell. He hated it as a kid, but I always thought it sounded distinguished.”Adrian.The letter slipped from my numb fingers and fluttered to the floor.It wasn't a kidnapper. It wasn't a stranger.It was my brother taking my mom.A hysterical, watery laugh bubbled up in my chest
[Elena's POV]It had to be Noah.He knew I ran. He knew before I even left the apartment. The "guards" at the safehouse were a distraction. While I was playing spy, he had already moved the one pawn that mattered.He had my mother.A wave of nausea hit me so hard I had to grab the doorframe to stay upright. Cold sweat broke out on my skin.He wasn't just a possessive billionaire. He was a monster. He had taken the only family I had left to punish me for leaving him."Ms. Campbell? Are you alright?" the nurse asked, reaching out to steady me."I..." I swallowed bile. "Did they leave anything? A number? An address?""Actually, yes." The nurse reached into her pocket. "One of the guards, the tall one with the scar, he said if you came looking, to give you this."She held out a cream-colored envelope.My fingers trembled violently as I took it. It was heavy, expensive cardstock. No name on the front. Just a wax seal stamped in dark red.I stared at it, dreading to see the hollow grin of a
[Elena's POV]The thin man's eyes lit up—just a flicker, a spark of chemical hunger that I recognized all too well from my father's worst days."Yeah," he said quickly, licking his dry lips. "Yeah, I can get that. I've got some... stuff downstairs. Stronger than Ibuprofen."He turned to the brick wall of a man beside him. "Watch her. I'll be right back."The big man didn't respond. Didn't even nod. He just stood there, arms crossed over his massive chest, staring at a spot on the wall behind me like a programmed machine.The thin man disappeared down the stairs, his footsteps hurried and uneven.I waited.Five seconds. Ten. My heart was a metronome counting down to disaster.I turned to the big guy, trying to shrink myself, to look as harmless and helpless as possible."Hey," I said softly, hugging my arms around my chest. "I know this is awkward, but... do you think I could get some clean clothes? Maybe from a store nearby? I can't exactly meet Caleb looking like this."Nothing.No r
[Elena's POV]The door slammed shut behind Noah, and the sudden silence felt like a vacuum sucking all the air out of the room.I sat there on the silk sheets, naked except for the thin fabric pooled around my waist, staring at the space where he'd been standing.Jake was kidnapped by Velgrave. Or... was he?I replayed Noah's reaction in my head. The cold fury. The immediate phone call from Caleb. The way his entire body had tensed like a coiled spring ready to snap.That wasn't the reaction of a man who'd orchestrated his own nephew's kidnapping.That was the reaction of a man who'd been blindsided.Noah was a lot of things, ruthless, possessive, morally bankrupt when it came to stock manipulation, but he wasn't stupid.If he'd wanted Jake out of the way, he wouldn't have framed his own gang for it. That would expose his connection to Velgrave, blow his cover as the clean billionaire philanthropist.No. Someone else had taken Jake.And whoever it was wanted Noah to take the fall.I e
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