LOGINHe stole the wrong girl. Or maybe… she chose the right king. Dante Valenti rules his empire with cold precision and a reputation soaked in blood. No one crosses him. No one deceives him. And no one escapes him. So when he kidnaps a woman from the Moretti estate—a trembling little princess meant to be leverage—he expects fear. Instead, the woman chained in his basement looks him dead in the eyes… and smiles. Aria Moretti has spent years hiding behind silk dresses and a porcelain mask, pretending to be the quiet, obedient daughter of the Moretti crime family. But beneath the pretty facade lies a secret no one suspects: She is the Moretti’s most lethal weapon. A phantom. A blade disguised as a flower. And she walked willingly into the lion’s den for one reason— to kill Dante Valenti. Her mission is simple: Get captured. Get close. Get his trust. End the king. But nothing about Dante is simple. The moment he discovers who she truly is, he doesn’t kill her. He claims her. "You came to kill me, little killer... but every king needs a queen.” Now, Aria is caught in a deadly dance between loyalty and desire, betrayal and obsession. Dante matches her darkness note for note—twisted, brilliant, and devastatingly irresistible. He should be her target. Instead, he’s becoming her temptation. And the deeper she falls, the clearer the truth becomes: She isn’t the only weapon in this war. Dante has claws of his own— and he’s willing to use every one of them to keep her.
View MoreThe moment my father steps toward me again. Something inside me snaps.Not cracks. Not bends.Snaps.Before anyone can stop me, before my body can remember fear, I step forward and close the distance between us.And I hit him.The sound is sharp and unmistakable, skin against skin, echoing through the funeral hall like a second gunshot.Gasps explode around us.Cameras flash.National television catches the exact moment my palm connects with his face, the shock rippling through him as his head turns slightly to the side.For the first time in my life, he doesn’t look angry.He looks stunned.His eyes snap back to mine, wide and disbelieving, like he’s staring at a stranger wearing his daughter’s face.Good.I lean in just enough that only he can hear me—my voice low, steady, lethal.“I’m going to ruin you,” I say.Not yelling. Not shaking.Certain.“Not Dante. Not his family. Not the Crows. Not even her,” I add, flicking my gaze briefly toward my mother’s casket. “Me.”His jaw tight
The priest steps toward me, slow and gentle, like he’s afraid I might shatter if he moves too quickly. He opens his arms without asking, and when he pulls me into a soft hug, I lose the fight entirely.“That was beautiful,” he whispers, voice thick. “Truly.”I feel his shoulders shake.He’s crying.That’s what does it.The sound tears something open inside me, and suddenly I’m crying too, harder than I meant to, harder than I wanted. I’d tried so carefully to hold it together. To be composed. Strong. Untouchable.But grief doesn’t care about composure.I press my face briefly into his shoulder, breathing through it, letting it pass through me instead of burying it where it will rot.“Thank you,” he murmurs again. “She would have been so proud of you.”The words hit deeper than anything else today.When he releases me, I wipe my face once and straighten, not because I’m done hurting, but because I’m done hiding it.I go to step down when suddenly, the doors open. Not gently. Not resp
The priest steps forward with practiced calm, smoothing the front of his black robes before resting both hands on the lectern.His voice carries easily through the room, measured, warm, reverent.“We are gathered here today to honor the life of Elena Moretti,” he begins. “A woman known not for the power attached to her name, but for the kindness she chose to show despite it.”I close my eyes.“She was a philanthropist, a patron of countless charities, an advocate for the sick, the poor, the forgotten. She believed money was meaningless unless it was used to lift others.” He pauses, letting the words settle. “And she believed, perhaps stubbornly so, that compassion was never weakness.”A murmur ripples through the crowd. Soft nods. Quiet agreement.“She will be missed deeply,” the priest continues. “Not just by her family, but by the many lives she touched in ways large and small.”I feel Dante’s presence beside me, still, steady, but the ache in my chest grows anyway.Then the priest
The morning comes quietly.Too quietly.New York is wrapped in gray when I open my eyes—snow drifting past the tall windows in soft, hesitant flakes. The city feels hushed, like it knows what today is.Danika doesn’t say a word while she helps me get ready.She doesn’t need to.The dress is black silk, smooth and heavy in a way that feels deliberate. It doesn’t cling, doesn’t beg for attention. It commands it. I pull my hair into a neat bun, my fingers steady as I pin it in place with the black crow wings my mother loved so much. She used to say crows were misunderstood. Loyal. Smart. Survivors.I wear them for her.Black heels, simple, practical. Nothing dramatic. Over it all, I slip into the long velvet coat, almost like a trench, fur lining the inside. Warm. Protective. Armor disguised as elegance.New York is cold today. The kind of cold that seeps into bone. Snow dusts the sidewalks, catching in the hems of coats and the edges of umbrellas.Everyone else is dressed in black too.
She trembles, body tensing as I rub her swollen nub with my free hand, circling fast. Her orgasm hits like a storm, walls clamping down, milking me as she screams into the pillow, her release squirting out around my shaft.The vise-like squeeze pulls me over the edge. I release her throat, shoving
The suite door opens with a soft click.I look up from the tablet just in time to see Aria step inside—arms full, shoulders slightly hunched under the weight of far too many bags. Designer logos, thick rope handles, tissue paper peeking out like evidence of excess.Behind her, Danika follows, grinn
The store feels like a different universe.Glass, light, polished floors that reflect us back like we belong here. Racks arranged by color instead of function. Shoes displayed like art. Music humming low enough to be felt more than heard.Danika, meanwhile, is on a mission.“That—no, two of those—w
The hotel doesn’t just loom—it welcomes.Glass, marble, gold-veined floors that reflect light like water. The kind of place where the air smells expensive and nothing creaks or echoes because nothing here is allowed to feel imperfect.The doors glide open before we even reach them.People are waiti












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