All Chapters of Rising Of A Mafia Queen: Vengeance is mine!: Chapter 1 - Chapter 6

Ruby’s POV The hospital room was stuffy, filled with air that had been trapped too long. I hadn’t left the bed in four days, barely eating and barely speaking. I didn’t want to. I hadn’t even turned on the TV. But when I finally did, I wished I hadn’t. The news reports rolled across the screen, detached and polished, delivered by a woman with too-perfect hair. A massacre, that’s what she called it. My father, my mother and my older brother Gabriel. All gone. The footage blurred, but I caught enough. Yellow tape, a broken window, blood smeared across marble floors. Then my name. The reporters said I was dead too. My stomach was tying itself in knots just watching this, but the next part made my heart turn to ice. The company had already replaced my father. A new CEO had stepped in already, barely a week after his death: Richard Harlow. And right beside him, standing like he belonged there, was a face I knew too well. Jason. I gasped and gripped the remote so hard that a few butto

Ruby’s POVI hadn’t expected things to move this fast.Richard Harlow was a fool. He was the kind of man who craved attention like a hungry dog. He had a wife, children and an empire to protect, but none of that mattered the second I walked into his life. He was weak enough to fall for any woman who made him feel wanted, so I used that weakness against him.Two weeks. That was all it took.Every night after work, I met him in his private suite, playing the role of the devoted lover. I let him believe he was my entire world, that I adored him and that I couldn’t live without him. It disgusted me, touching and sleeping with the man who had destroyed my family, but it was necessary. He needed to trust me completely before I made my move.He was obsessed with me now. Even at work, he couldn’t go a day without calling me into his office, finding an excuse to keep me close. A man in his fifties acting like a lovesick fool. I had him exactly where I wanted him.And then I pushed for more.

Ruby's POVIt had been days since Amanda’s meltdown, yet I could still hear the way she screamed at Richard Harlow everytime I closed my eyes. It was like music to my ears. I kept replaying it, like an old wound I wouldn’t let scab over. But nothing took my attention more than Jason.I walked into the study late that afternoon, while Richard was away from the house. Jason was there, slouched in the leather chair in the study and flipping through some files. His pen scratched the margins. His focus stayed on the files like nothing outside those papers mattered.For silent seconds, I stood there and stared at him. My chest tightened. Jason Harlow, the man who once held my heart in his palm. The man I once thought I’d build a life with. The same man who had taken everything from me.I forced my voice to stay steady. “Are you busy?”He didn’t even lift his head properly, just flicked his eyes up for half a second before dragging them back to the pages. “Clearly, I'm busy. What the hell do