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The Knock
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2026-04-21 13:26:11
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The Mafia Who Bought Me The Ghost’s Room
Elena POV I didn’t mean to find it. That’s the thing about this house — it’s designed to keep secrets, but secrets have a way of breathing through the vents when you least expect it. I wasn’t even looking for anything, i just couldn’t stay still after everything that happened. Ever since the basement training room, the air in my own room had felt too thin, and too heavy at the same time. The mansion was too quiet again. Not the peaceful kind of quiet you find in a library, but the suffocating kind that makes your thoughts louder than they should be. Every step I took echoed back at me like I wasn’t alone in my own head. I walked past the main hallway, past the stairs, past doors I already knew. And then I stopped. There was a door at the far end of the west wing. I had seen it before, but I’d never paid much attention to it. It wasn’t guarded, and in this house, that was the first thing that felt wrong. Everything important had eyes on it. But this didn’t. It just sat there. C
The Mafia Who Bought Me The Teeth of the Board
Dante POV The room smelled like old money, cold ash, and that suffocating kind of control that always made me want to burn the whole damn building down. Nothing ever changed in here. Same heavy table that had signed a hundred death warrants over the decades. Same high-backed leather chairs that creaked under the weight of egos. Same old men sitting like they were gods, even though most of them couldn’t pull a trigger anymore without their hands shaking like leaves. I stood at the head of the table. I didn’t sit. In this room, sitting meant you were waiting for orders. Standing meant you were the one giving them — or ready to take what was yours by force if necessary. Ricci sat directly across from me, a thin, ugly smile stretching across his face. He looked at me like I was a punchline he’d been saving for a special occasion. Beside him, Cavallo stayed silent, eyes flat and unreadable. And then there was Vincenzo — the man who had spent the last three years staring at my chai
The Mafia Who Bought Me The Iron Lesson
Elena POV I couldn’t sleep. I was tired as hell, but every time I closed my eyes the same images kept playing — the cold wood under my knees, the gun against my head, Dante bleeding on that dock. I lay there staring at the ceiling for what felt like hours, my mind spinning too fast to settle. Eventually I gave up. I pulled on one of Dante’s shirts, the hem hitting mid-thigh, and it still smelled like him — cedar and something sharp. It was the only thing that made me feel a little less alone. The house was too quiet. I wandered through the dark halls until I saw a thin strip of light under the basement door. The training room. I pushed it open without thinking. Dante was there, sitting on a bench cleaning a black handgun. He was shirtless, the fresh white bandage around his ribs standing out against his skin. He looked exhausted, shadows under his eyes, but his hands were steady and focused. He didn’t look up. “You should be asleep.” “You too,” I said, leaning against the doorfra
The Mafia Who Bought Me The Safehouse Silence
Elena POV The mansion felt different when we finally pulled through the gates. Not in a good way. The lights were on like always, the grounds looked the same, but everything carried this heavy, leftover tension from the night. Like the place itself knew what had almost happened to us. I sat in the back of the car with Dante’s hand still loosely holding mine, his grip warm but weak. He didn’t say much the whole ride, and neither did I. By the time we got inside, Luca had already handled everything. A doctor was waiting. He stitched Dante up fast and wrapped him tight. When I saw him again later, he was standing in one of the smaller sitting rooms like nothing had happened. Like he hadn’t just bled all over a dirty dock for me. “You should be sitting,” I said quietly. “I’ve been sitting,” he replied with a faint smile that didn’t reach his eyes. “Then sit again.” He didn’t move. Typical Dante. I didn’t push it. I just walked past him and dropped my jacket on the table. My hands s
The Mafia Who Bought Me Salt and Blood (Part 2)
Elena POV The next sound was a loud crash, like someone had ripped a metal door right off its hinges. My whole body jumped. James turned fast. “Get ready!” he yelled. His men moved instantly. I heard their boots scraping across the floor and the sharp clicks of guns being readied. My heart was beating so fast it felt like it was going to come out of my throat. I couldn’t move. I couldn’t even think straight. Then the first shot went off. Everything turned into chaos. Gunfire filled the room, loud and nonstop. Smoke started pouring in, burning my eyes and smelling like hot metal and fear. “Move left!” a voice shouted through the noise. It was Luca. He sounded calm, which somehow made it even scarier. More shots followed. These weren’t wild — they were aimed and precise. “They’re inside!” one of the guards screamed, and then he went down hard. My heart hammered against my ribs. I felt a shift in the room before I even saw him. Like the air suddenly got thicker. Then the door di
The Mafia Who Bought Me Salt and Blood (Part 1)
Elena POV The engine roared in my ears, loud and rough, like it was shaking me from the inside out. The boat tore through the water, sending cold spray across my face that stung where it mixed with the tears I refused to let fall. My hands were still tied behind me, the rope biting into my wrists every time the boat bounced. My chest felt so tight I could barely pull in a full breath. All I could see, over and over, was Dante standing on that pier, blood spreading too fast across his side. The image wouldn’t leave me. It kept playing like a nightmare I couldn’t wake up from. I twisted again, trying to get free, my body straining against the seat. “Stop moving,” James snapped. He was standing over me like this was nothing, like he hadn’t just shot the man he called brother. “He’s bleeding,” I choked out, my voice barely loud enough to carry over the wind. “You’re just going to let him die out there?” James didn’t answer. He didn’t even look at me. He just stared out into the d
The Mafia Who Bought Me The Stop Lying to Me
The words refused to leave me. She’s coming. They echoed louder with every passing second, refusing to fade no matter how hard I tried to push them down. I stood motionless in the hallway long after the body had been removed, after the bloodstains had been wiped from the marble until it gleamed a
The Mafia Who Bought Me Break the Silence
No one spoke. Not when we entered. Not when the door shut behind us with a heavy click. Not even when Dante stepped into the center of the room like he owned the air itself. The silence wasn’t empty. It was thick. Suffocating. Like something invisible had wrapped around everyone’s throat and was
The Mafia Who Bought Me They Know My Face
Elena POV Eyes on me. AGAIN It was not subtle this time. Not hidden. But direct. I felt it the second I stepped fully into the hallway. Guards who used to look past me…Now looked at me. Staff who used to move freely…Now slowed. Stayed silent and watched. My steps didn’t stop but something insid
The Mafia Who Bought Me What They Don’t See
Dante’s POV The house was quieter than it should have been. Not calm. Not peaceful. Different. And control like this never came without a reason. I stood in my office, the glass untouched in my hand, my gaze fixed on the city stretching beyond the window. Lights flickered in the distance, unaware
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