Se connecter~~Sophia~~Luca shoved me into the room. Before I could even catch my balance, the door slammed shut behind me.A second later, I heard the lock turn.I rushed to it and grabbed the handle, twisting it hard.“Hey!” I pounded my fist against the wood. “You can't keep me here. I'm a guest, not a prisoner!”“Remain there until the Don decides what punishment you will receive for trying to kill him.”Luca's voice came from the other side, calm and maddeningly indifferent.Then his footsteps began to fade.“Luca!” I hit the door again, but there was no response.The silence that followed was worse.I rested my forehead against the cool wood, breathing heavily through my nose. My hand stung from pounding against the door, but I barely noticed.What had I expected? An apology and a polite invitation to leave after I had just driven a knife into Romano?I dragged in a shaky breath and pushed myself away from the door, sweeping my hair back from my face.I hadn't realized how exhausted I was u
~~Romano~~Pain ripped through my arm.I released her on instinct and staggered back, my eyes dropping to the knife buried in my flesh. For a second, I simply stared at it.Then the blood came.It soaked through my shirt, warm and sticky against my skin, before dripping onto the polished floor.She really had some fucking guts.“That’s what you get for trying to own me!” she screamed. “I’m not your property!”She turned and ran for the door but barely made it two steps before Luca caught her.He twisted both her arms behind her back, and she fought him like a wild thing, kicking and thrashing with every ounce of strength she had.I gritted my teeth and wrapped my fingers around the knife.Then I pulled. The blade slid out with a wet sound.A fresh wave of pain tore through my arm, crawling all the way to my shoulder. My jaw tightened as I forced myself to breathe through it.“How dare you stab the Don?” Luca snarled.He shoved her toward me and she hit the floor hard, her hair falling
~~Sophia~~The way he carried me down the hospital hallway made heads turn.“Put me down. I can walk on my own,” I muttered, my words coming out between the jolts of each step.He didn't answer.“I said put me down.” I clenched my fists, resisting the urge to pound his back again.“Be quiet,” he ordered.A moment later, he pushed through the hospital doors.Cold air slapped against my skin and I shivered slightly. It was nighttime already.They hadn't even given me time to change out of the hospital gown. Had Romano bought this too? That bastard was rich enough to spend money like it grew back every morning.I was still facing backward, so I couldn't see where we were going. All I could do was watch the hospital entrance getting farther away while he carried me toward wherever the hell he intended to take me.Then I heard the unmistakable click of a car door opening and my body was lowered into a seat.Before I could properly adjust myself, he climbed in beside me and shut the door.
~~Sophia~~How could people be this disgusting?First, that son of a bitch named Hector betrayed me. Then my own parents looked me in the eyes and lied to me because they didn't know how to tell me they were selling me to Romano.So this was what I was now? Some item being passed from one person to another in some kind of non-refundable black market deal?The thought made my stomach twist.“How much did you pay him?” I asked, forcing the words past the tightness in my throat. I was willing to negotiate. Anything to get myself out of this nightmare. “How much did you pay him? I can give you the money back.”A short, humorless chuckle escaped him.“So you think you can afford the money?”His steel-gray eyes remained fixed on mine, calm and unreadable.The way he said it made something cold settle in my stomach. Whatever he had paid, it wasn't an amount I could simply scrape together and return.“This is human trafficking,” I spat. I refused to let him see how scared I was.“Call it whate
~~Sophia~~ ~~Sophia~~I never for once thought that anyone would make my parents kneel in front of me.But Roman Moretti did it.Before I opened my eyes, I heard the steady beeping of a heart monitor beside me.Next came the smell. Antiseptic. Medicine. That unmistakable hospital smell.Slowly, I opened my eyes. Everything was blurry at first. I blinked several times, keeping my gaze fixed on the white ceiling above me until the room slowly came into focus.Then, I remembered events from last night.A sharp pain pulsed through my head as I tried to sit up.I immediately grabbed it, squeezing my eyes shut when the pain intensified. My fingers brushed against something rough wrapped around my head. A bandage.I swallowed hard and opened my eyes again. That was when I noticed them.My parents, Karla and Hector, all kneeling in front of my bed.For a few seconds, I just stared at them.I honestly thought I was hallucinating. But the longer I looked at them, the more real they became.My e
~~Sophia~~At that moment, I watched my whole world collapse right in front of me like it was built on rotten foundation.My mind refused to accept what my ears had just heard. It kept searching for some other explanation, something that would make all of this less cruel. But there was nothing.The engagement ring around my finger suddenly felt like a weight. While I was busy dreaming of a sweet future, these two assholes were busy fucking behind my back? “How… How long?” The question barely made it past my lips.My gaze fixed on Hector. My fingers tightened until my nails dug into my palms.“How long have you been sleeping with my sister?”Hector's jaw shifted, but he said nothing.“Answer my fucking question!” I didn't even realize I'd screamed until the sound echoed through the room.My father's expression hardened.“That's not what we're bothered about,” he said impatiently, as though I were a child throwing a tantrum instead of a woman whose entire future had just been ripped ap







