MasukHe was a man made of sins. She was the one mistake he couldn’t undo. Luca Romano — the ruthless Don of the Romano crime family — has lived in the shadows for years, drowning in blood, money, and women. But beneath the armor of power lies a ghost he can’t escape: Serena, the girl who once saved his broken soul before vanishing without a trace. Decades later, when Luca sees her again in a supermarket — the same eyes, the same delicate face — he loses control. Within hours, she’s in his mansion, locked away, his lost angel finally returned to him. But she isn’t Serena. She’s Sienna, Serena’s twin sister — the one thrown away, forgotten, and left to survive the streets. Unlike her gentle twin, Sienna bites back. She curses him, fights him, and makes him question the monster he’s become. “You think you own me, Don?” she spits. “No, dolcezza,” he murmurs, pressing his thumb against her jaw. “I think I finally found the one woman who could destroy me.” What begins as a twisted act of obsession turns into a war between them — a battle of wills, lust, and long-buried secrets. Because the more Luca learns about the woman he’s captured, the more he realizes: He might have stolen the wrong twin, but he’s finally met his match. And when the real Serena returns — sweet, innocent, and hiding a darkness he never imagined — Luca will discover the cruelest truth of all: The angel he adored was a lie… and the devil he stole might be the only one who can save him. “I thought you were my redemption,” he says. “No,” she whispers. “I’m your reckoning.”
Lihat lebih banyak“I needed to understand the hierarchy,” Serena said, her voice cold enough to cut. “I’m the successful one. The strategic one. The twin who matters. You’re the mistake, the one they threw away because even at seven, they could tell you’d never be worth keeping.”Something inside my chest didn’t just hurt, it splintered. Not a clean break. A fracture. The kind that never really heals right. This wasn’t honesty. It wasn’t even cruelty in the heat of the moment. This was calculated. Precise. Designed to destroy.“The investigator’s report…” I said slowly, the pieces sliding into place in a way that made my stomach turn. “You didn’t show it to me to be honest. You showed it to set this up. You wanted proof, documentation, so you could twist the knife deeper.”Her lips curved, pleased. “Smart girl. Took you long enough. Yes, I showed you so you’d come back vulnerable. So you’d be perfectly positioned for maximum damage when I told you the truth that I chose to let you suffer because your s
Sienna stayed away from the hospital for three days, holing up in her hotel room with the investigator's report, reading it obsessively, memorizing every clinical detail of her documented suffering.On the fourth day, Matteo knocked on her door with coffee and concern."You need to either go back or make the decision to stay away permanently," he said, settling into the chair by the window. "This limbo isn't healthy.""Nothing about this situation is healthy," Sienna said, but she was already reaching for her jacket.She found Serena sitting up in bed, looking significantly stronger, her color fully returned. The doctor had apparently cleared her for transfer to a private recovery facility within the week."You came back," Serena observed as Sienna entered. "I wasn't sure you would.""Neither was I," Sienna admitted, settling into the chair with careful distance between them. "I've spent three days trying to decide if honest monstrosity is better than being alone.""And?" Serena promp
"That's honest," Serena corrected. "And it's the best I can offer. Brutal honesty about inevitable betrayal, delivered early enough that you can make an informed choice. Stay knowing what I am, or leave knowing you tried. Either way, you won't be able to say I deceived you."Sienna moved back to the bed, picking up the investigator's report, staring at her sister's handwritten notes choosing abandonment. "I should leave. I should walk out of this hospital and never come back, should choose myself the way you've always chosen yourself.""You should," Serena agreed. "It would be thye healthy choice. The self-protective choice. The choice that honors your own wellbeing over complicated sisterhood with a monster.""But?" Sienna prompted."But I hope you don't," Serena admitted. "I hope you're stupid enough to stay. Damaged enough to find honest monstrosity preferable to performed warmth. Desperate enough for a family that you'll accept a conditional connection over no connection.""Yo
"I didn't know I was performing," Serena said. "I was a baby, I was just trying to survive. Trying to be whatever they wanted so I could get out of the system. I didn't understand that being chosen meant you weren't."Sienna returned to the report, her vision blurring with tears she still refused to shed:"Current assessment: Subject is at high risk for homelessness upon aging out of foster care. Has minimal support system, no family connections, limited financial resources. Psychological evaluation suggests untreated attachment disorder and probable depression, though subject refuses counseling services.""Investigator's note: Subject appears to have internalized her abandonment/separation as personal failure. Multiple foster parents mentioned her saying things like "I wasn't good enough to keep" or "Something's wrong with me." Despite this, she demonstrates remarkable resilience and determination to build independent life through art.""Recommendation: Subject could benefit from
"You're not the wrong twin," Luca said desperately."Then prove it," Sienna challenged, stopping her packing to look at him directly. "Make her leave. Right now. Tell her she has to go, that your obligation to me is greater than your obligation to save her. Prove through actions that I matter more
Luca didn't sleep that night. He sat in his study, staring at documents he couldn't process, replaying the conversation with Sienna on an endless loop."Prove it by Making her leave."And he couldn't. Even knowing Serena was empty, even understanding he was losing Sienna, he couldn't make the choic
Luca found himself standing outside the library where Serena spent most of her afternoons, his hand raised to knock, uncertainty freezing him in place.Three weeks. Serena had been at the estate for three weeks, and something was fundamentally wrong.He knocked."Come in," Serena's voice, soft and
"Then what do you want?" Serena asked, echoing Sienna's earlier question. "Really? Strip away justifications and obligations and noble reasons. What do you actually want?"Luca opened his mouth, but no answer came. Because he didn't know. Or he did know but couldn't admit it, that some terrible par
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