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Chapter 54

Author: Samantha Ely
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Bella

The glow from the monitors painted everything in cold blue light. I stood behind the main desk, arms crossed, watching the tactical feed pulse across the screens. Elena sat at the main terminal, fingers flying as she switched between drone visuals, biometric sensors, and the data relay from the field.

Enzo’s locator was steady. Aristide’s, too… Good.

Still, I couldn’t shake the ache in my chest. Not fear, at least not the kind I’d been raised with. It was deeper than that. The kind of pressure that lived between breath and bone. The kind you only felt when the person you loved most was out in the dark with a loaded weapon and no guarantees.

I could still hear his voice in my head from just minutes ago, soft on the private channel. ‘I love you.’ I hadn’t known how much I needed to hear it until he said it.

The war room was quiet now, except for the hum of equipment and the occasional click of Elena’s keyboard. Everyone else had cleared out, per my orders. If something went wrong,
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  • The Chosen Bride   Chapter 54

    BellaThe glow from the monitors painted everything in cold blue light. I stood behind the main desk, arms crossed, watching the tactical feed pulse across the screens. Elena sat at the main terminal, fingers flying as she switched between drone visuals, biometric sensors, and the data relay from the field.Enzo’s locator was steady. Aristide’s, too… Good.Still, I couldn’t shake the ache in my chest. Not fear, at least not the kind I’d been raised with. It was deeper than that. The kind of pressure that lived between breath and bone. The kind you only felt when the person you loved most was out in the dark with a loaded weapon and no guarantees.I could still hear his voice in my head from just minutes ago, soft on the private channel. ‘I love you.’ I hadn’t known how much I needed to hear it until he said it.The war room was quiet now, except for the hum of equipment and the occasional click of Elena’s keyboard. Everyone else had cleared out, per my orders. If something went wrong,

  • The Chosen Bride   Chapter 53

    AristideThe room looked different this time.Same faces. Same table. But the energy had changed. No longer cautious or skeptical, no longer waiting to see if Bella would break under the weight of their expectations. Now, they were listening.Really listening.I moved to stand beside her again, my place as constant as her heartbeat. She didn’t look at me, not yet. Her focus was forward, sharp as a blade, but I could feel her… every breath, every calculation humming beneath her skin. She wasn’t just holding the room. She was commanding it.God, she was beautiful like this. Not just the kind of beauty that turned heads. But the kind that bent wills. That made grown men trained in power and silence lean forward without realizing they were doing it. That made me, her husband, her equal, feel proud in a way that dug deep into my chest and stayed there like a vow.“I asked you here because we needed a path forward,” Bella said, voice steady. “And now we have one.”She nodded toward Elena an

  • The Chosen Bride   Chapter 52

    BellaI never thought silence could be so loud. The kind that settles in your bones and waits to see if you’ll flinch.Twelve family representatives sat around the long oak table, their expressions masked by years of training, power, and blood. Each came from a different corner of our fractured underworld: New York, Boston, Chicago, even Montreal. Men and women whose names made governments shift and whose shadows stretched farther than most empires dared to imagine.I stood at the head of the table, not because I’d claimed the spot, but because they’d left it open. Waiting for someone to fill it.Aristide stood to my left, silent but solid, his presence grounding me more than anyone would ever understand. Elena monitored from a nearby station in the corner. Matteo sat across from me, flanked by Enzo and Marco. Mabel wasn’t inside the room; she wouldn’t sit in on war, but I knew she’d made sure everyone had eaten, and that I’d had my tea, my prenatal, and that I wasn’t wearing shoes th

  • The Chosen Bride   Chapter 51

    AristideI’d been awake since before dawn. The sky was still streaked with purple and ash blue when I left our room and headed down the long corridor toward the war room. The old floorboards creaked beneath my steps, but the rest of the estate was already humming with low activity. There wasn’t time for sleep anymore. Not when we were this close to locking the board.Inside the converted war room, Elena was stationed in front of a triple-monitor setup, fingers dancing across her keyboard. Enzo was pacing with a mug of coffee in hand, murmuring into a burner phone. Marco sat on the edge of a leather chair, field-stripping his pistol like it might offer him clarity. Not that he needed it cleaned, it was already spotless. But fidgeting gave him control.Bella had gotten up a little while after I did, still in her robe, hair unbrushed. She murmured something about helping Mabel and headed downstairs. Not for strategy or security, Bella left those pieces to us for the day. She needed to br

  • The Chosen Bride   Chapter 50

    BellaI stood in front of the mirrored armoire in our temporary bedroom, adjusting the button on the cuff of my black blazer. It wasn’t about looking intimidating—it was about appearing composed. In control. Even when everything inside of me buzzed like a live wire. This wasn’t just another negotiation. This was the final stretch of pulling together an alliance strong enough to crush Giancarlo Bianchi and anyone else who thought we were weak.Aristide came up behind me, his fingers brushing down the back of my neck before resting lightly on my shoulder. “Ready?”“As I’ll ever be.”The plan was simple. Well, no plan involving old mafia families and strategic blackmail was ever simple, but this one was calculated. Elena, Marco, and Enzo had worked through the night digging into the last three holdouts: the Vasari family from Chicago, the Leone family out of Miami, and the mysterious, reclusive Donato family, who had been ghosts for the last decade. Each had their reasons to hesitate. Ea

  • The Chosen Bride   Chapter 49

    AristideThe door clicked shut behind us, sealing off the rest of the world and all the tension that had ruled the night. The air in our room was softer, warmer—still charged, but in a different way. Bella sat on the edge of the bed, her back straight, eyes unfocused. Processing. I could see the wheels in her head turning, even as she stayed quiet.I walked to her, cupped her face, and tilted her gaze to mine. “You were incredible tonight,” I murmured. “You didn’t just hold your own… you owned that room.”Her throat worked as she swallowed. “I don’t know if that’s good or dangerous.”“Both,” I said honestly. “But necessary.”She nodded, and I could see the exhaustion finally catching up to her. But when I leaned in and brushed my lips against hers, slow and lingering, something else sparked between us. A need to remind each other we were still here. Still together.We undressed in silence, not out of hesitation but reverence. Every motion was deliberate. Every button I unfastened on h

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