All Chapters of CLAIMED BY THE MAFIA DON: Chapter 191 - Chapter 200

ARIELLAWhen I woke up, if that’s what you want to call it....but when I came back to myself, it felt like surfacing from a stormy sea. I was gasping for air, but something kept pressing on me. I felt myself gripping onto something I couldn't touch. My head pounded. Every nerve inside my body screamed. The darkness from before clung to the edges of my vision. My mouth tasted like metal.I opened my eyes, my chest rising and falling as I struggled to take in a breath while my heart hammered hard.“Shhh… calm down,” a voice murmured nearby.I opened my eyes fully and realized Alan was hovering over me.“Alan,” I said, but my throat was dry.“Here,” he said, producing water from behind the table and giving it to me. I took a sip, looking around the room, trying to ground myself. For a moment, I thought I had imagined everything that had happened. But when I looked at Alan, I knew it wasn’t an imagination. It had happened.“What’s going on, Alan? What is happening?” I asked, panic creepi

ARIELLAMy body is tense. Every nerve in my body is screaming at me that I can't fight anymore. I just let Alan pull me forward, my hand pressed against my side, my mind spinning, my body unable to keep up.We get to the kitchen. They open the back door. The other man is in front of us, watching the streets, gun still raised. As he walks towards a car parked in the driveway, he gets inside the front seat and opens the back door. Alan pushes me into the back of the car and then gets in after me before he can even tell the other man to drive, he drives off.I look around, wondering where they're taking me and what they're going to do to me when we get there. A few minutes later, we drive into a dark road, a place where it's just trees and darkness. I see then clearly: this is where I'm going to die. This is the place where I'm going to die. This is where Alan is going to kill me.A few minutes into the dark road, a car appears in front of us. It stops. Alan opens the door, gets out, an

ARIELLAWhen I woke up, every joint, every part of my body ached as if I’d been crushed in a hundred places at once. I groaned, trying to move, but a hand immediately clamped over my mouth. That same whisper came again, that word that made my stomach drop."Shhhh....!"I struggled to open my eyes, focusing slowly, painfully, trying to understand where I was. My hands were no longer tied. I realized I was sitting down, my weight leaning against a tree behind me. Tentatively, I touched the bark, confirming I wasn’t hallucinating. My surroundings were dense with trees, shadowed and silent. We were… in the forest?Before I could form the question, Alan’s face appeared in front of me.“Shut the hell up,” he whispered, sharp and deadly. “If you give them an inkling of our location, I will shoot you on the spot.”Panic tightened my chest as memories rushed back in a brutal wave, being taken from the house, the exchange, the gunfire, the crash. My mind scrambled, trying to piece together the

ARIELLAAlan laughs sadly, "And that's when… I found out about you, Asher. The resemblance hit me like a punch in the gut. I remember Leon, the way he moved, and I think to myself, what are the odds that Luka’s son would look exactly like you?You have always been like an enigma. Like that… like the devil, the one that’s always there, whispered about, but the person you have never seen, never met. Since I wasn’t involved in the mafia world, just like you pointed out, I wasn’t invited to Dinara's wedding. I wasn’t included in a lot of things because I was an outsider, like their most prized treasure... the woman I loved..."He smiled sadly as he continued, "I made them billions of dollars. But because I wasn’t born into their world, I could never really be part of it. I could never reach the same stature as you, as them. And that’s why I lost her, Dinara. And when I decided, you know what, fine, I’m going to find myself a normal woman… she’s not normal, is she? Because I found out who

ARIELLA"You think I won't kill her? You think I won't hesitate to kill her? You think that I will hesitate? Do you think I went through all of this without having a plan? I know what I'm doing, Asher, and I won't let you threaten me. You think because I'm not from the Mafia world that I'm afraid of you? You think.....?"Alan’s voice was sharp, vibrating with a fury that almost masked the tremor beneath it. His eyes burned with conviction, his finger twitching on the trigger as if he were desperate to prove himself.But Alan didn’t get to finish what he was thinking, what he thought Asher was thinking, because all of a sudden, before I could even blink, before anything else could happen, Asher raised his gun.It was so fast, so smooth, it felt like time had cracked open for a split second. And then....BAM.The sound exploded through the room, rattling my bones. My scream tore out of me, high and raw, because the gun had been pointed at me just a moment ago.For a fraction of a heartb