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The Girl Behind His Throne

The Girl Behind His Throne

By:  Fleur LilCompleted
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Tragic Love

Feel-Good Story

Ruthless

Winning Back the Wife

The Torres family and the Nostra had been enemies for generations. When I was ten, I was betrayed by my own blood and left for dead. Leon Torres was the one who saved me. So I buried my identity as the daughter of a powerful Cosa Nostra family and stayed by his side, helping him from the shadows. For years, I used my father's underground network to eliminate every obstacle in Leon's path, helping the overlooked second son of the Torres Don rise step by step until he claimed the throne for himself. Then he brought home a woman named Anrina. His childhood sweetheart. Anrina claimed she was the one who had helped Leon seize power all these years. And Leon believed her. From that moment on, every ounce of his protection, trust, and affection belonged to her. "Look at yourself. Covered in blood like a filthy stray." "Go clean yourself up. Don't scare my sweetheart." Leon stripped me of my position as Capo and forced me to become Anrina's servant. When pizza fresh from the oven burned her mouth, he made me kneel at her feet and cool every bite before feeding her myself. When a rose thorn pricked her finger, he blamed me for failing to protect her and ordered ten lashes in the punishment room. I endured it all. Because years ago, after saving my life, Leon once said: "You want to repay me? "Then repay me a hundred times." I lowered my gaze to the child growing quietly inside me. "Ninety-nine," I whispered. "Just one more, little one... then Mommy will take you home."

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10 Chapters
Chapter 1
Anrina strode into the room in stiletto heels and tossed a bunny-girl outfit straight at my face.There was barely enough fabric to cover anything. A pair of cheap little bells hung from the chest."My birthday banquet is tonight. Put this on and serve drinks to the guests."Arms crossed, she looked down at me like a queen passing judgment.I picked up the outfit and threw it back at her feet."I'm not a hostess."Anrina let out a cold laugh and stepped closer."Leon already gave the order. It's my birthday tonight, which means everyone listens to me."If you refuse to wear it, I'll have you thrown into the punishment room for the night."Those were indeed his words.He had said the exact same thing on my birthday last year.That night, he had personally fastened a necklace around my neck called Heart of Protection.He promised he would always protect me.Then Anrina appeared, and everything changed.I went from a feared Capo to a servant anyone could humiliate.Seeing m
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Chapter 2
Three years ago, he used this gun to teach me how to shoot, guiding my hands with his own wrapped around my wrist.One year ago, he used this same gun to kill a man who had insulted me.And now, the barrel was pressed against my forehead as he forced the victim to apologize to the woman who framed her."I won't confess to something I didn't do."I closed my eyes and rested both hands over my stomach.Silence stretched through the room for ten long seconds.In the end, Leon did not pull the trigger.Instead, he slammed the gun down onto the liquor table with a violent crack."Get out."Kneel in the courtyard. You can stand back up when you're ready to apologize."A storm was raging outside.Rainwater poured from the roof like a curtain as I knelt on the stone pavement in that ridiculous bunny-girl outfit.The shards of glass still embedded beneath my knees hadn't even been removed yet. Soaked by the rain, they throbbed with sharper pain every passing minute.The storm only
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Chapter 3
I stood in the corner at the back of the meeting room.The family Consigliere hurried in, his expression grim."Don Torres, the shipment of arms we stored near the edge of the Mexican desert was hijacked by the Camorra. They took the goods and wiped out our men. We need someone to recover it."Four Capos sat around the conference table.Not one of them spoke.That stretch of desert was a graveyard. Last year, twenty men had been sent there.Only three came back alive.Silence settled over the room for nearly half a minute.Then Anrina walked in.She went straight to Leon, dropped herself onto his lap, and looped her arms around his neck like she belonged there."Leon," she said sweetly, "why not send Isabella?""Wasn't she your best Capo once?"She turned and flashed me a smug smile."Isabella would definitely bring it back for you, wouldn't she?"Leon's brows drew together slightly.He glanced at me, lips parting as if he wanted to say something, but no words came out.
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Chapter 4
The GPS showed we were less than two kilometers from the exchange point.Then the radio crackled once.Every communication device went dead at the exact same moment.Ice shot through my veins."Use the vehicles for cover!"I kicked the door open and rolled into the sand, drawing the handgun engraved with my name.Figures began surfacing along the dunes, one after another until the ridgeline was crawling with them.At least forty men.Camorra.They knew what time we would arrive, which route we would take, even how many men I brought with me.There was a rat.And I already knew who it was.Anrina.She had sold us out from the very beginning.She never intended to let me leave this desert alive.Gunfire rained down from every direction. My men dropped one after another into the sand.I took out three shooters trying to flank the right side, then rolled behind an armored vehicle to reload.That was when a stray round punched into the fuel tank.The armored truck jolted v
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Chapter 5
Leon was half reclining against the headboard while Anrina curled up in his arms, scrolling through her phone.Without warning, a violent pain tore through his chest.The wine glass slipped from his hand and shattered against the floor.Anrina jumped in fright. "Leon? What's wrong?"He pressed a hand against his chest, an overwhelming sense of dread tightening around his heart for no reason he could explain.Leon shoved Anrina aside and grabbed the radio from the bedside table.Static crackled through the speaker.Bzzzt... bzzzt...Nothing but dead air.He switched frequencies.Then another.Still static.His expression darkened instantly."Find out what happened at the desert site."Half an hour later, one of his men dropped to one knee before him."Don... there was a massive explosion at the desert trading post. Everything within three hundred meters was reduced to ashes–""Where's Isabella?"The man visibly flinched at Leon's roar."We... we can't find her."For f
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Chapter 6
Leon sat in the corner drinking alone, two bottles of whiskey already smashed at his feet.Shards of glass covered the floor, but he refused to let anyone clean it up.Anrina approached with a bowl of hot soup in her hands. She wore a silk nightgown with the neckline deliberately left low.Carefully, she sat beside him and leaned into his chest.The moment Leon caught the sickly sweet scent of her perfume, his stomach churned with disgust.He shoved her away violently."Get out."Anrina fell onto the broken glass, her palm instantly sliced open, blood dripping between the shards. Even then, she did not dare make a sound.After she left, Leon walked into my room.He lay down on my bed and pulled my blanket into his arms, greedily breathing in the fading trace of my scent still clinging to the fabric.Then suddenly, his hand brushed against something hidden beneath the mattress.A locked box.Without hesitation, he smashed the lock apart with the grip of his pistol.Inside w
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Chapter 7
Anrina was strapped tightly to the interrogation chair."Leon! I was the one who helped you take the throne! You can't do this to me!"Leon crouched in front of her and slowly flipped open the diary, holding each page up for her to see."You helped me?"You stole her achievements. And you got her, and my child was killed."Anrina instantly collapsed to her knees, smashing her forehead against the floor as she begged for mercy.Leon leaned against the wall and watched in silence, his face completely unreadable.Once, Anrina had forced me into a bunny-girl outfit and made me serve drinks to her guests. Leon had her stripped naked and locked inside a freezer for two hours.Once, Anrina made me kneel outside in the rain. Leon ordered his men to pin her down and blast her with freezing water cannons through the entire night.Once, Anrina had people break both my legs.So Leon had his men hold her still while they brought down a hammer against her leg bones, one strike after anothe
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Chapter 8
Representatives from the ten most powerful underground families in the world gathered beneath the same roof.I sat at the center table reserved for the ruling families, the highest seat in the hall. Two Capos stood behind me on either side, silent and imposing.A slim cigarette rested between my fingers as smoke curled lazily into the air.Then Leon walked into the main chamber.The moment he saw me, everything else disappeared from his eyes.He strode straight toward me and reached out as if to pull me into his arms."You're alive... thank God."Come home with me."The two Capos behind me instantly drew their submachine guns and leveled them at his head.Around the hall, Torres soldiers reacted just as quickly, hands flying to their weapons as the entire room descended into a standoff.Leon turned sharply."Stand down!" he roared.Every Torres gun lowered.I exhaled a slow stream of smoke."You have the wrong person.""Mr. Torres, my name is Serena Nostra."Leon ignore
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Chapter 9
My twin pistols fired in unison, dropping the first three assassins with clean shots to the head.My men moved in immediately and locked the situation down.Leon collapsed into a pool of blood, reaching toward me with a trembling, blood-soaked hand, trying to grab the hem of my dress.I stepped over him without hesitation."You think taking a few bullets for me erases everything?"When I was trapped in that desert, I was a hundred times more desperate than you are now."His fingers slipped from my skirt.His hand froze midair.The light in his eyes died instantly, and his head slammed against the ground as he lost consciousness.My head bodyguard asked how I wanted him handled."Throw him outside. His people will come collect him."After the failed assassination, the Ndrangheta mobilized hundreds of mercenaries and launched a full-scale assault on my port stronghold.The battle lasted three days and two nights.On the third night, I stood atop the command platform directin
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Chapter 10
My family's business stretched across Europe and North America, with influence on both the legitimate side and the underworld.The assets under my name alone exceeded four billion dollars.I sat inside a private club overlooking the Port of Palermo, signing the final acquisition agreement of the day.Rain battered the windows outside.Down at the docks, laborers were still hauling crates of seafood through the storm, one after another beneath the freezing wind and rain.I glanced over absently, about to close the blinds.Then my eyes stopped.At the farthest corner of the pier, a man leaned heavily on a cheap aluminum crutch while carrying a crate across his back.He limped badly. Every step dragged half a beat behind, his ruined right leg barely following the rest of him.A scar split across his face from forehead to chin, layered over with countless smaller cuts, as though someone had carved him apart inch by inch with a knife.Leon Torres.Once handsome enough to drive th
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