LOGIN“Fifty Thousand dollars, going once.” The words echo through the room, cold and final, as Bianca realizes her fate is no longer her own. Desperation has led her to a place where lives are reduced to bids, and freedom has a price tag. Just before the gavel can fall, a single voice cuts through the silence, calm, powerful, and undeniable. “Twenty Million.” The room freezes. The highest bid belongs to Stefano De Luca, a man whose wealth is limitless, whose influence is feared, and whose intentions are never questioned. Sold to a man who treats power like a weapon and emotions like weakness, Bianca is forced into a contract that binds her to a world of luxury, control, and dangerous secrets. What begins as a transaction soon becomes a battle of wills, where lines blur between possession and protection, fear and desire. In a world where everything has a price, Bianca must decide whether she is merely something that was bought or the one thing Stefano De Luca never intended to lose. But what if he never intended to set her free at all?
View MoreThe doorbell did not ring in a casual, uncertain way that visitors usually pressed it, but in a measured pattern that felt intentional, three firm chimes spaced evenly apart, as if the person outside was not asking for permission to enter but announcing his presence with quiet authority.I paused halfway down the staircase with my hand resting on the railing, listening to the sound fade into the silence of the house, and for the first time since I had started staying here, the place felt too large and too quiet in a way that made me suddenly aware that I was completely alone inside it.Stefano had left before sunrise for a meeting outside the city and told me he would be gone for most of the day, and the house staff had been given the morning off because there was nothing scheduled, which meant there was no one else to answer the door except me.The bell rang again in the same calm, deliberate rhythm, and something about it made my chest tighten with a feeling I could not immediately
“Marco keeps joking about mafia business,” I said before I could lose the courage to ask, my voice steady but curious as I stood a few steps inside Stefano’s office while the early morning light filtered softly through the windows behind him.He did not answer immediately, and the silence that followed was not confused or surprised, but thoughtful, as if he had been expecting this question to arrive eventually and had already considered how he would respond when it did.Stefano uncrossed his arms and moved to sit on the edge of his desk, facing me directly with a calm expression that made it difficult to tell whether this topic amused him or concerned him.“And what made you decide to take Marco seriously today?” he asked.“I don’t,” I replied honestly. “But he jokes too specifically for it to feel completely made up, and Cassius never denies it, which somehow makes it worse.”A faint breath that almost resembled a laugh left him. “Marco has a very creative mouth.”“That’s not an answ
“Are you done hiding in there, or did Stefano finally promote you to permanent office decoration?” Marco’s voice reached me the second I stepped out of the office, loud and dramatic enough to make Cassius sigh without even lifting his eyes from his screen.I closed the door gently behind me while trying and completely failing, to hide the warmth still lingering on my face, because whatever had just happened inside that room had not stayed behind with the paperwork and the quiet air.“I was not hiding,” I replied, walking back toward my desk with what I hoped looked like a normal pace instead of the careful, overly controlled steps of someone trying not to look affected.Marco leaned back in his chair and studied me with exaggerated suspicion, his eyes narrowing as if he were investigating a crime scene. “You look like someone who just had a very serious conversation… or a very dangerous one.”Cassius finally glanced at me briefly before returning to his monitor. “With him, it’s usuall
Stefano did not call my name loudly, yet the way he said it carried enough weight to pull my attention away from Marco’s teasing and Cassius’s dry remarks as if an invisible thread had been tied from his voice to my chest and gently, but firmly, tugged me toward him.“Bianca, come here for a moment,” he said, his tone calm, almost casual, but there was something beneath it that made me set my coffee down without thinking and walk toward his office while the others watched with quiet curiosity.I stepped inside, and he closed the door behind me with a soft click that felt strangely intimate, as if the world outside had been muted and reduced to background noise that no longer mattered.For a second, neither of us spoke.He simply looked at me.Not with suspicion, not with authority, but with a kind of quiet focus that made me suddenly aware of how close we were standing and how the air between us felt warmer than it should have.“Did you sleep well last night?” he asked gently.The que












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