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Victor Reyes

Author: Scarlett Vane
last update publish date: 2026-10-09 14:13:43

The house sat at the end of a quiet gravel drive, modest and unremarkable, exactly the kind of place a man builds when he's spent a decade trying not to be noticed. Adrian parked a short distance away, studying the property through the windshield while his men confirmed Reyes was alone inside.

"No wife, no children living with him," one of the men reported through the radio. "Just him. Lights are on in the back room."

"We go in quiet," Adrian said, glancing at Ivy beside him. "You stay close to
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  • Sold To The Mafia King    Old Ways

    Marsh sent word himself before Adrian's men could finish mapping his operation, a plain message delivered through a mutual acquaintance, requesting a meeting at a neutral restaurant on the far side of the city. No threats, no demands, just a time and a place and the phrase let's speak like men who respected the same world once."It's a trap," Ivy said immediately, reading the message over Adrian's shoulder."Probably." Adrian studied the card, something calculating moving behind his tired eyes. "Or he genuinely believes he can intimidate me in person, face to face, the way my father would have. Either way, refusing sends the wrong message.""What message.""That I'm afraid of him." Adrian set the card down. "Men like Marsh don't respect restraint. They respect confidence, even when it's reckless. If I hide behind my walls, he wins without even trying.""Then I'm coming with you.""Ivy.""I'm not asking." She held his gaze steadily, one hand resting against her stomach in a gesture tha

  • Sold To The Mafia King    No Peace

    The envelope arrived three days after Dana's visit, slipped beneath the front gate overnight despite the increased security Adrian had maintained since Richard's letter weeks earlier. One of the guards brought it directly to the study, something grim in his expression as he set it on the desk."No postmark, sir. Someone got close enough to the property line to leave this by hand."Adrian's jaw tightened as he opened it, and Ivy watched his expression shift from careful calm to something considerably darker as he scanned the brief message inside."What does it say," she asked, already bracing herself.Adrian turned the paper toward her without a word. The message was short, typed rather than handwritten, deliberately impersonal in a way that felt more unsettling than any threat scrawled by hand could have.Congratulations on the wedding. And the baby. Word travels fast in certain circles. A man in your position should think carefully about who he's brought into this world, and what it

  • Sold To The Mafia King    Spoiled Rotten

    Dana arrived within the hour of Ivy's call, barely waiting for the car to fully stop before climbing out and hurrying up the front steps, something urgent and curious in her expression."You said it was important and that I had to come in person," she said, pulling Ivy into a quick hug. "You're not allowed to make me worry like that over the phone. What's going on?"Ivy exchanged a glance with Adrian, something warm and barely contained building behind her careful composure. "Come sit down. We have news."They settled in the sitting room, Marta hovering nearby with poorly disguised excitement of her own, clearly unable to resist being present for the announcement despite having already heard it days earlier."Okay, you're both acting weird," Dana said, studying their faces carefully. "Good weird or bad weird? I can't tell.""Very good weird," Ivy said, unable to hold back her smile any longer. "I'm pregnant."For a moment, Dana simply stared, processing the words, before her face broke

  • Sold To The Mafia King    Two Lines

    Three weeks into their marriage, Ivy noticed the exhaustion first, a bone deep tiredness that no amount of sleep seemed to touch, followed by mornings that left her gripping the bathroom counter until the nausea passed. She'd dismissed it initially as stress catching up with her, the natural comedown after months of danger finally settling into her body now that the adrenaline had nowhere left to go.It was Marta who finally said the quiet part out loud, watching Ivy push aside breakfast for the third morning running with something knowing in her expression."How long has this been happening," she asked gently, setting a cup of ginger tea in front of Ivy rather than the usual coffee."A week, maybe longer." Ivy frowned, turning the question over properly for the first time. "I thought it was just exhaustion.""When was your last cycle."The question landed heavy, and Ivy sat with it for a long moment, counting back through weeks that had blurred together during the wedding preparation

  • Sold To The Mafia King    Vows

    The garden looked different that morning, not transformed exactly, just gently dressed for the occasion, simple white chairs arranged in a small half circle around the bench with Adrian's initials carved into the wood, fresh flowers woven through the trellis Marta had insisted on adding at the last minute. Ivy stood at the edge of the garden, watching the small gathering settle into place, something full and almost unbearably tender filling her chest."You look beautiful," Dana said, adjusting the simple ivory dress one final time, her eyes already glistening despite the ceremony not having started yet. "I knew I'd cry. I told you I'd cry.""You haven't even walked down anything yet," Ivy laughed, though her own eyes felt suspiciously warm as well. "Save some tears for the actual vows.""No promises." Dana squeezed her hand one final time before stepping back to take her seat. "I'm so happy for you, Ivy. After everything, you deserve exactly this."Marta approached next, something mat

  • Sold To The Mafia King    Invitations

    The guest list took exactly ten minutes to finalize, far shorter than Ivy expected given how much Marta had been fretting over flowers and seating arrangements for a wedding that technically only needed five chairs."Dana, Marta, Elena, your senior men who've actually earned a place in this house," Ivy read aloud from the small notebook she'd been keeping since the proposal. "That's it. That's the whole list.""Short lists make for better weddings," Adrian said, looking up from his own paperwork across the study. "Fewer people pretending to care who actually don't.""You sound like you've attended a lot of weddings full of people pretending to care.""More than I'd like to count." Something wry crossed his face. "My father's associates loved an excuse to perform loyalty publicly. I'd rather this be the opposite of every wedding I grew up watching."Ivy smiled, closing the notebook with something settled and content in her chest. The small kitchen table ceremony they'd planned felt rig

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