MasukWhen Las Vegas showgirl Sienna Vale witnesses billionaire casino heir Luca Moretti handling a dangerous mafia problem behind closed penthouse doors, she knows two things immediately: She's in Danger... And she's finally found her way into the spotlight. Luca needs a flawless public image to protect his casino empire from scandal. Sienna needs fames badly enough to risk everything for it. The solution is simple: fake a relationship designed for the cameras, the tabloids, and the elite world of Las Vegas society. But pretending to be the Casino King's glamorous new obsession quickly turns into something far more dangerous when a temporary arrangement becomes more. The rules were supposed to be simple: Play the perfect partner, protect the empire, rise to fame, and never fall in love. But in a city built on temptation, obsession is the most dangerous gamble of all.
Lihat lebih banyakIsabella did not leave the coffee shop.She opened the door, let the strip of white afternoon light spill across the tile, then stopped with one hand on the metal handle as if she had remembered something worse than the man in the gray hoodie.I was already on my feet, purse clutched against my side, Luca’s unanswered calls burning through my phone like a guilty conscience.“What?” I asked.Isabella looked through the front window.The gray hoodie was gone.The parking lot outside looked ordinary again. A woman loaded grocery bags into the back of a minivan. A man in sunglasses argued with a parking meter. Somewhere nearby, a car alarm gave one weak chirp and stopped.Nothing dangerous.Which was exactly why my skin prickled.Isabella turned back to me.“You were supposed to leave.”The words landed strangely.Quietly.Like a glass placed too close to the edge of a table.I frowned. “Wh
Isabella said someone paid her to come, and for one foolish second, all I could think about was how badly I wanted my coffee to still be hot.Hot coffee felt like something a normal person deserved during a conversation like this.Instead, mine sat between us in a chipped white mug, cooling under the fluorescent lights while Don D’Caputo’s daughter folded her shame into perfect posture and waited for me to understand that the floor had just shifted again.“Paid you,” I repeated.Isabella’s fingers rested on the edge of her teacup.Long fingers.Steady.No rings.“No,” she said. “Not me directly.”“That is the kind of correction people make when the answer is worse.”Her mouth curved faintly, but it did not reach her eyes. “My family received money.”I glanced toward the café window.A woman with a stroller passed out
I met Isabella D’Caputo in a coffee shop that did not belong to Luca.That was the first requirement.Not the hospital café inside New Zenith. Not the sleek espresso bar in the Cashmere Crown. Not the place near the arts center where the barista had started writing little hearts beside my name after the children’s wing opening went viral.Somewhere ordinary.Somewhere with sticky tables, mismatched chairs, burned espresso, and a front window looking out at a strip mall with a nail salon, a tax office, and a sandwich shop that advertised three kinds of tuna like that was a reasonable amount of tuna for one building.It was not elegant.That was why I chose it.Luca would never think to look for me somewhere with fluorescent lighting and a pastry case full of muffins wrapped in plastic.Which made me feel clever for about five seconds.Then the guilt arrived.It sat across from me in the empty chair before Isabella did.I checked my phone for the fourth time.No messages from Luca.That
Isabella confronted me before Luca could decide whether to protect me from the truth or let me stand inside it.She had arrived as Marisol Vega.That was the name she gave the lobby, the cameras, and the security team.But the file Brian had pulled in the frantic minutes after her arrival showed another name hidden under old school records, sealed estate notes, and a birth certificate no one had been meant to find easily.Isabella D’Caputo.Don’s daughter.She waited until Brian stepped away to secure the conference room and Luca turned to give a low instruction to one of his guards. Then she moved.Not toward him.Toward me.She crossed the marble lobby with the smooth confidence of a woman who had learned never to hurry in expensive shoes. Up close, she smelled faintly of jasmine and cold air, the kind of perfume that felt less like something pretty and more like a warning.“Miss Vale,” she said.Luca’s head turned immediately.Of course it did.Isabella noticed.Her mouth curved, b
It worked.Somehow, against all logic, it actually worked.Luca left the dressing room, and I went home after changing into my more comfortable clothes, taking two buses from the Cashmere Crown to my apartment on the north side of town. It wasn't much, but it was all I could afford when I first mo
His body froze against mine."What did you say?" Luca's voice lost its silk and became steel. Every word came out precise and controlled, as every word was deciding my fate. I hooked my feet together behind him, keeping him close to me while I spoke. "I know what you did last night, Luca," I wh
The music hit first.A slow swell of brass and piano rolled through the theater while the curtain stayed drawn, teasing the audience with anticipation. Behind it, under the heat of backstage lights and the smell of hairspray, I stood frozen in position like a loaded weapon waiting to fire.Then th
"Why is this girl on the ground?"Luca's voice lowered into something dark and lethal. He didn't raise his voice, and somehow that made it worse."Just like you, she's a buzz kill." The blonde-haired man was drunk. Even from the ground, I could smell the alcohol oozing off his skin. "So you did






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