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The Stranger Who Felt Like a Memory

Author: Anne Author
last update publish date: 2026-05-29 14:40:33

The moment I saw him

something inside me stopped.

Not my thoughts.

Not my breathing.

Something deeper.

Something I couldn’t name.

He stood behind Lucas in the receiving hall of the hacienda, half a step back, silent, controlled, unmoving.

Like a shadow that had chosen to take human form.

At first, I thought he was just another business associate.

We had plenty of those lately.

People coming and going with documents, meetings, restructurings, and discussions I tried my best to underst
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    I didn't sleep again after the nightmare.No matter how hard I tried.No matter how many times I told myself it was only a dream.Because deep insideI knew it wasn't.The images were too vivid.Too detailed.Too real.I could still hear the gunfire.Still feel the impact of my body hitting the ground.Still hear that voice calling my name over and over again.Aly.Not Alyssandra.Aly.Like it belonged to someone who had said it a thousand times before.Like it belonged to someone who loved me.The thought made my chest ache.I stood by the window as dawn slowly painted the horizon in shades of gold and pale orange.The hacienda was waking up.Workers moved through the gardens.Vehicles traveled along distant roads.Birds filled the morning air with song.Everything looked normal.Yet nothing felt normal.Not anymore.Because for the first time since waking from my coma years agoI was afraid.Not of the future.But of the past.Because something inside me had begun to crack.And what

  • The Mafia King Obsession    The Nightmare Beneath the Silence

    I couldn’t sleep.No matter how exhausted I was.No matter how much I tried convincing myself that the strange heaviness inside my chest would disappear by morning.It stayed.The grandfather clock downstairs echoed faintly through the hallways of the hacienda, each tick stretching the silence longer than necessary.Midnight.Then one o’clock , two.Still awake.I sat near the window of my room wrapped in a thin cream-colored robe, staring out at the dark gardens illuminated by dim pathway lights.Everything looked peaceful.The flowers swayed softly beneath the wind.The trees stood still against the night sky.The fountain reflected silver moonlight like unmoving glass.Nothing about this place should have made me uneasy.And yetmy chest hadn’t relaxed since the moment I saw him.Damon Mondragon.Even thinking his name now felt strange.Heavy.Like the sound carried something deeper than letters.I pressed my fingers lightly against my temple and closed my eyes briefly.“What is ha

  • The Mafia King Obsession    The Stranger Who Felt Like a Memory

    The moment I saw him something inside me stopped. Not my thoughts. Not my breathing. Something deeper. Something I couldn’t name. He stood behind Lucas in the receiving hall of the hacienda, half a step back, silent, controlled, unmoving. Like a shadow that had chosen to take human form. At first, I thought he was just another business associate. We had plenty of those lately. People coming and going with documents, meetings, restructurings, and discussions I tried my best to understand and manage on my own. So I looked at him the way I looked at everyone else. Politely. Professionally. Without expectation. But the moment my eyes settled on his face everything shifted. I didn’t understand why. He wasn’t doing anything unusual. He wasn’t speaking. He wasn’t even looking at me directly at first. But my chest tightened anyway. A strange heaviness pressed against me, subtle at first, then sharper. Like my body recognized something my mind refused to understand. L

  • The Mafia King Obsession    Fragments of a Life I Cannot Remember

    Alyssandra’s POV The past few days blurred together like watercolor left out in the rain. I stayed busy on purpose. Work. Reports. Estate matters. Meetings with staff. Anything that kept my hands moving and my mind occupied. Because whenever everything went quiet that was when the emptiness came back. Not pain. Not exactly. More like something missing that I could never identify, no matter how long I stared at it. Like a word I used to know but forgot how to say. The hacienda was too big for silence. Too beautiful for sadness. And yet somehow it carried both at the same time. After the funeral, everything felt heavier. Doctor Arthuro Valdez and his wife had been gone for days now, but their absence still lingered in every hallway, every room, every corner where they used to exist. They were the closest thing I ever had to parents. Not by blood. But by choice. By care. By time. I still remembered waking up in a hospital bed years ago with no memory of who I wa

  • The Mafia King Obsession    The Man She Forgot, The Love He Never Lost

    Five years of silence had a shape. It sat in my chest like a second heartbeat. I never learned how to turn off. The jet’s engine hummed steadily beneath me as Metro Manila disappeared beneath layers of cloud and fading city lights. I stared out of the window without really seeing anything. My reflection looked back at me, sharp eyes, rigid jaw, a face carved out of sleepless nights, and unfinished violence. Lucas sat across from me, silent and professional as always. A folder remained open on his lap, though I already knew every detail inside it by heart. Alyssandra Valdez. My wife. A stranger to herself. A ghost who had been living a second life while I burned the world searching for the first. “ETA is forty minutes, Sir,” Lucas finally said. I didn’t respond. My fingers tightened slightly around the edge of the armrest instead. Forty minutes. That was all that stood between me and the moment I had been waiting for and fearing in equal measure. I had faced armed men with

  • The Mafia King Obsession    A Trace of Her

    Damon’s POV Five years. Five fucking years. That was how long Alyssandra had been missing from my life. Five years of searching. Five years of bloodshed. Five years of tearing apart every city, organization, and underground network connected to her disappearance. And still nothing. No trace. No shadow. Not even a body. Her parents given up because they accepted she was already dead. But not me. Because deep inside, beneath all the rage and exhaustion, I knew one thing with absolute certainty. She was alive. And I was going to find her even if I had to burn the entire world down to do it. The city lights of Metro Manila reflected against the glass walls of my penthouse office as I stood beside the window, whiskey in hand. Below me, the city never slept. Cars crawled endlessly along EDSA. Neon lights flickered across Makati. People moved through their lives completely unaware of the world of violence hidden beneath the surface. Behind me, my table was buried under

  • The Mafia King Obsession    Chapter 16

    The next moments were a blur. I didn’t realize how we ended up in his bed, how the space between us had dissolved into something dangerously intimate. My mind had raced, yet at the same time, everything had slowed every touch, every glance, every small brush of skin against skin was magnified, i

  • The Mafia King Obsession    Chapter 15

    The truth settled heavily in my chest. Something had changed. Not just in my body but in the air itself. In the way the night felt thicker, charged, like the moment before a storm finally breaks. I exhaled slowly, forcing my shoulders back. You are still you. You are still in control. T

  • The Mafia King Obsession    Chapter 14

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  • The Mafia King Obsession    Chapter 13

    The night air was cool, brushing against my skin as I watched her from across the table. Candlelight flickered along the edges, casting soft shadows on Samantha's face. She sat straight, poised, but there was a subtle tension in the way she held her glass, fingers brushing the stem as if it could

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