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Chapter 25: Shackled đśď¸
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2025-09-30 17:14:26
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Switched at the Mafia Auction   Chapter 279: I wasnât ready
~ Avelyn ~The first thing I noticed was the quiet. The kind of quiet that doesnât belong anywhere near me. Not the silence of sleep, not the calm after a storm, something heavier. Thicker was waiting.I blinked. Slowly. My vision swam, sharp light cutting through my lids like it had been waiting for me. The bed felt too big. Too empty. My arms reached instinctively across the sheets. Nothing. No one.Panic fluttered like a trapped bird. My pulse jumped, loud in my ears. The memory hit me before I could catch it, the chaos, the shots, the screaming. Ciara. The child.I sat up abruptly, pulling the sheets around me like armor. My body still trembled, small jolts of adrenaline making my fingers shake. And then I realized the space beside me. The bed was undisturbed. The weight Iâd expected⌠wasnât there.Xander hadnât come in.My stomach twisted. My chest tightened. A shiver ran up my spine, involuntary, like my body had remembered every second of fear it had been forced to endure. I sw
Switched at the Mafia Auction   Chapter 278: My child
~ Xander ~ I walked away, didnât go in. The door had been right there. A few steps. That was all it would take. I could hear movement insideâsoft, controlled. The quiet rhythm of machines. The low murmur of nurses who didnât know they were standing in the middle of something that had just rewritten everything. She was in there and so was the child. My child. The word still didnât sit right. It didnât settle into anything I recognized. It moved through me like something unfamiliar, something that didnât belong in the same space as everything else I was. I stood there longer than I should have. Long enough for it to mean something. Long enough for it to become a choice. I could walk in. Demand answers. Demand explanations. Demand what was mine. But the thought stopped before it could fully form. Because the truth was already there. Clear. Unavoidable. She hadnât told me. Not by accident. Not by circumstance. By choice. Everything she had doneâ
Switched at the Mafia Auction   Chapter 277: Walked away
â Xander âThe chaos was behind us. Gunfire, shouting, bloodâit all fell away the second I cleared her from the line of fire. I didnât stop until there was space, until nothing remained between us and the men closing ranks behind. Then I stopped. Not because it was safe. Because I needed to see her.My grip on her arm was firm, controlled, as I scanned her face, shoulders, hands checking, assessing, searching. âAre you hurt?â My voice was low, measured, but not without weight. She shook her head too quickly. âIâm fine.â A lie. Or maybe not. I couldnât tell. Her chest rose unevenly, her hands trembling, her body still taut from the seconds sheâd spent kneeling with a gun to her head.And it wasnât just that. It was the way she looked at me, eyes meeting mine briefly, then slipping away. Avoiding. Not relief, not anger but something tighter, restrained. My jaw tightened. I stepped closer, hand rising to brush under her chin, tilt her face back toward the light. She stiffened instantl
Switched at the Mafia Auction   Chapter 276: Kneel
â Xander â I had never knelt for anyone. Not for men with more power. Not for men with more money. Not for men who thought fear could bend me into something smaller than what I was. Power wasnât given, it was taken. And once you had it, you didnât bow. You didnât lower yourself. You didnât break. So when he said itâ âKneel.â The word didnât land as an order. It landed as an insult. Silence followed, heavy and deliberate, stretching just long enough to demand a reaction. My gaze stayed on him, unmoving. Gjarpri stood there like he had already won, like the outcome had been decided and I was just catching up to it. Around me, my men shifted subtle, tense, ready. One command. One signal. That was all it would take to turn this place into a graveyard. I could already see itâthe angles, the openings, the first men to fall before the rest even understood what was happening. I could end this. Right here. Right now. Thenâ A sound. Soft. Fragile. Out of place. My eyes flickered, j
Switched at the Mafia Auction   Chapter 275: Stop
~ Avelyn ~At first, I thought I imagined it.The sound didnât belong here. It didnât fit with the guns, the tension, the men standing too still like they were waiting for something violent to happen. It was too small. Too soft. Too⌠fragile.But it came again.Sharp. Unsteady. A cry.My heart didnât stop. It dropped. So fast it felt like it tore through my chest on the way down.My head lifted before I could stop it, my body reacting faster than thought, faster than fear, faster than logic.And then I saw her.Everything inside me broke.âCiaraââThe name slipped out of me, raw and breathless, my body lurching forward on instinct alone. The hand at my neck tightened instantly, the gun pressing harder against my temple, forcing me back down before I could move again.But I didnât feel it.I didnât feel anything except her.She was in someone elseâs arms. Too small. Too exposed. Her face scrunched, her tiny hands curling and uncurling as she cried, the sound uneven, fragile, wrong in a
Switched at the Mafia Auction   Chapter 274: Sheâs just a mistress
â Xander âThe moment I saw her on her knees, something in me shifted. Not outwardly. Not in a way anyone here could measure or use. But insideâsomething tightened. Locked. Refused to move.They had forced her down like she was nothing. Like she belonged at the mercy of men who didnât understand what they were touching. Her hands braced against the ground, shoulders tense, spine rigid, holding herself together by sheer force.And there was a gun to her head.I didnât look at it for long. Because if I did, I wouldnât be standing where I was. I wouldnât be playing this the way it needed to be played. My gaze returned to her face. She had already seen me. I knew the exact second it happened. The slight stillness in her body. The way her breathing changed, almost imperceptible unless you knew what to look for. Unless you knew her.I let my expression remain unchanged. Cold. Controlled. Untouched. Anything else would cost her. And I wasnât paying that price.âWelcome, Xander.âGjarpriâs vo
Switched at the Mafia Auction   Chapter 119: I was innocent
~ Avelyn ~The way she said it wasnât even loudâjust casual, like talking about the weather.âTell me, how was it like being fucked by Xander?âMy brain lagged. That wasnât curiosity, this was a knife disguised as a compliment.I didnât rise to the bait. My voice came out low, flat.âWhat do you
Last Updated : 2026-03-26Switched at the Mafia Auction   Chapter 126: Congratulations, youâve traumatized me
~ Avelyn ~ Xander didnât raise his voice. He didnât need to. One sharp hand signal was all it took.Everything moved at once.Men shouted in Romanian and Italian, boots scraped concrete, guns lowered and redirected. Smoke drifted somewhere above us. I barely registered any of it because Kyle sagge
Last Updated : 2026-03-26Switched at the Mafia Auction   Chapter 125: You still owe me
~Avelyn ~I didnât thinkâI just ran.The second Kyleâs body jerked forward from the bullet, something inside me snapped loose. The three men who were supposed to guide me out barely reacted in time. I slipped right past them like my bones had forgotten I was supposed to be protected. All I saw was
Last Updated : 2026-03-26Switched at the Mafia Auction   Chapter 121: Underwater
~ Avelyn ~The descent to the bowl of water came next. It was deliberate. The technicians lowered me slowly so that when I released the pole I entered the air like something sliding off a blade. The water bowl waited like a stage prop enlarged into reality revealing a transparent, semi-circular bas
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