All Chapters of Sold To The Mafia Lord: Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

The air between them had changed.Emilia felt it before she even opened her eyes that morning. Something electric, coiled and waiting, buzzed in the quiet space of the hideout. The kind of tension that made her pulse skip for no reason and her skin tingle long before his footsteps approached.Lucien wasn’t avoiding her anymore, but he wasn’t letting her close, either. He watched her.Always watched her.Not with the distant detachment he once wore like armor, but with something else now. Heat. Hunger. Hesitation.She could feel his eyes on her when she walked past in one of his old shirts that hung too big off her shoulders and too short at her thighs. She’d catch him looking, jaw tense, fingers curled into fists, like he was holding himself back from something he didn’t yet trust himself to want.Or maybe didn’t trust himself to have.Emilia didn’t say anything. Neither did he.She wasn’t sure what the rules were anymore.But she knew one thing: they were standing on the edge of somet

Lucien had always been good at control.He had built empires on it, buried men for it, wielded it like a weapon. But lately, around her, it slipped.Emilia.She was the one thing in his world that didn’t make sense. Everything about her chipped away at the armor he had spent years forging. She laughed in quiet, breathless ways that made his pulse skip. She moved through his space like she belonged there, even though she never truly had.And now, she wore less.It was the heat. At least that’s what she claimed.But Lucien didn’t believe in coincidences.She padded barefoot through the villa in soft fabrics that clung to her thighs, her waist, her breasts. Loose tanks with nothing beneath. Silky shorts that made it hard for him to look away. Her hair was always slightly damp from a bath, skin flushed from the heat, and every time she passed close enough, he caught the scent of her.Wild honey and something darker.He didn’t touch her. Not once.But he wanted to.God, he wanted to.He wat

She was everywhere.In the way the air smelled, jasmine and warmth and something he couldn’t name.In the sound of her laugh echoing faintly from the hallway.In the imprint she left on his shirt, his sheets, his thoughts.Lucien had spent his life mastering silence. Restraint. He’d learned young that desire was dangerous. That to want was to give others a blade and point it at your own throat.And yet, He wanted her.Desperately. Violently.It wasn’t just the way her body moved, though that alone was enough to burn him alive. It was the softness in her voice when she said his name, the quiet steel beneath her sweetness, the way she looked at him like he wasn’t a monster. Not completely.That terrified him most of all.Because he didn’t know how to be anything else.Lucien watched her now, barefoot in the kitchen, hair up, tank top clinging to her like second skin. A hint of thigh. The curve of her spine. The flicker of her mouth as she turned.She hadn’t noticed him yet.And he could

The storm rolled in with no warning. Not from the sky, but from within them. Quiet at first. Just the sound of his breath near hers. Just the way her skin broke out in goosebumps when his fingers brushed her wrist as he handed her a glass of water. But it was enough. Enough to set something irreversible in motion. Emilia stood in the soft glow of the firelight, barefoot, bare-legged, wearing one of Lucien’s white shirts that hung too loose around her frame. Her hair was damp from her shower, curling slightly at the ends, and she hadn’t bothered with makeup or distractions. There was nothing performative about her. She was just… there. And he couldn’t look away. Lucien leaned against the wall, arms crossed over his chest, shirt unbuttoned halfway. He was trying not to want her. Trying to keep space between them. But he was failing, and they both knew it. She looked up. He didn’t move. She walked to him, slow and careful, but not shy. Not tonight. Tonight she was some

The room was steeped in quiet.Not silence, there was too much breathing for that. Too much heat clinging to the air like smoke.Emilia straddled Lucien, her bare thighs pressed against the ridges of his abdomen, her palms braced on his chest. Firelight flickered across their skin, painting him in bronze and shadow as she moved above him, slow, deliberate, each roll of her hips drawing out a ragged breath from deep in his throat.She was still sore from the night before, but the ache felt right. Felt earned. Her body hummed with pleasure, nerves raw and open. Lucien’s hands were on her hips, guiding her, she is a naive in this game. Lucien was guilding and holding her like he couldn’t bear to let go. Like he was still trying to convince himself she was real.Emilia leaned forward, bracing herself on his forearms, dragging her lips across the column of his throat, his jaw, his mouth. He kissed her back with a hunger that had nothing to do with dominance and everything to do with need. P