Giordano – POV“Boss,” Mikey the Hammer said, knocking once, then pushing the door open. “It’s done. The convoy’s ready.”I didn’t look up yet. I was busy picking perfume. The “welcome suite” was almost ready. Silk sheets. Fresh flowers. Red, of course. The color of devotionI stood by the bed, my hand smoothing over the lace gown I picked myself. Ivory. Pure. Like her. Or how she pretended to be. “Virgin bride,” I muttered. “Mine now. All mine.”A glass bottle. Slim neck. Rose gold. Smelled like sex and silk. Smelled like her.“She’s coming back,” I said, mostly to myself. “Of her own free will.”Mikey hesitated behind me. I caught his reflection in the vanity mirror. Jaw tight. Sweat slick at his collar. Smart man. Scared men lived longer.I placed the bottle next to the lace panties I’d laid out. Red. Soft. Pure. Or whatever the fuck passed for pure these days.“She’s coming back,” I said again. “And this time… she stays.”“You smell that, Mikey?” Giordano’s voice was low. Calm
Selena – POVThe steak bled on the silver plate like it was waiting for my name.“Sit,” Giordano said, like he was asking me to dinner—not death. His voice was calm. Too calm.I was already in the cell, but he wanted me to sit like I was some guest of honor. Sick bastard. The table was small. Silver plate. Fork already laid. Candle burning like this was fucking date night.I didn’t move.He tilted his head. “You want to stand while I describe the different ways I’ve imagined your death?”God.I sat. The candle flickered between us, throwing his face in and out. I could hear the soft drip of water behind the wall and the faint squeak of rats. Giordano didn’t blink. His steak bled into the white plate like a wound.The cell was cold. Wet. The stone beneath me felt like old bones. The iron bars still stank of blood from that chef—his blood.The man slit his own damn throat right in front of Giordano and smiled while doing it.His hand had barely shaken. The knife was small, but the b
Vittorio – POVShe ran to me like I was the only thing that made sense.In that red bikini. Still barefoot. Hair wild from the wind. Eyes wide and glassy like she'd been waiting all day just to see me alive.The second I saw her—fuck. I couldn’t think. Couldn’t breathe. She smiled. Big. Unfiltered. The kind that cracked straight through a man’s ribs.And I knew. I was already hers.I dropped the poison bottle into Ghost’s hands without looking. “Guard it with your fucking life,” I muttered. Then I turned back to her.The second I saw her, my heart dropped into my stomach.She was standing by the hallway, barefoot, wrapped in a silk robe that barely covered her bikini. Skin golden from the sun. Wet strands of her hair clung to her collarbone. And that look in her eyes—like she’d been waiting at the edge of something all day, praying I’d come back alive.And I did.Her lips parted when she saw me. That smile—relieved, soft, too full of something I didn’t deserve.I fucking needed he
Katarina – POV still at the mansionI closed my eyes.Everything was finally coming together.The sun was a lazy thing that morning.The water shimmered under the sun. Naples heat kissed my bare shoulders. I sat at the edge of the pool, legs dangling, the cool water licking my skin. My bikini stuck to me like a second skin—tight, dark red, the color of old wine and war.Around the mansion, the air was thick with preparation. Footsteps. Voices. Metal clinks. Weapons being cleaned. Routes being drawn.They were ready.But I was the key.Me. The girl Giordano once broke, now the woman planning to kill him.I leaned back on my palms, closed my eyes, and let the sun brand my face. My mom was safe. “Vittorio and Lucas were out securing the poison.His voice still echoed in my head from this morning—growled and low.‘I’m bringing it home, kitten. The thing that ends him.’The one that started it all. If their plan went smooth, they'd come back with a name, a bottle, and the last piece of thi
Vittorio – POV At his Mansion “I want the fucking truth, Valentino.” My voice cracked like a whip through the war room. Everyone froze.Valentino didn’t blink. He just stepped forward, calm as ever, like my rage was a goddamn breeze. “You already know it,” he said low. “You just don’t want to believe it.”I grabbed his shirt, slammed him back against the map table. “Tell me what Mirelda said.” “Get off me,” he gritted. “You want answers or a punching bag?” “Both,” I hissed. “Start talking.”He shoved me off, breath sharp, adjusting his collar. “She saw death.”That made the room go silent again.Valentino shifted. “You want the full answer or the one that won’t make you lose your shit?”I turned. “Try me.”He looked at Ghost. Then Pietro. Then back at me.“Mirelda,” he said. “She saw this coming.”I froze. “You said she touched something dark. When we left Velmorra.”He nodded. “Something older than our bloodlines. She touched the blood. Took it into her mouth. It’s old magic. Sh
Vittorio – POVI fucking hated how I felt.The moment she said it—“I’m going to surrender to Giordano”—something sharp twisted in my chest. Not the usual kind. Not rage. Not pride. Not even control. This was… deeper. Filthy. Dangerous. Real.Fuck.I stood at the window, jaw tight, watching her down below where she’d gone to talk to Malva. Her hips swayed like she didn’t just set fire to my goddamn world. Like she hadn’t just made me feel something I didn’t have the tools to fix.She was everywhere in my head“Fucking hell,” I muttered, pacing.She’d said it like it was nothing. Like walking into Giordano’s claws was just another errand. Like she wasn’t dragging my heart behind her like some glittery fucking leash.I slammed the heel of my palm into the table.Why did I care this much?Katarina was under my skin. Deep. She filled every room even when she wasn’t in it. Even now, I couldn’t stop seeing her lips—swollen from last night. Her thighs marked up. Her scent still on my sheets.