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All Chapters of A Substitute Bride For The Mafia Boss: Chapter 11 - Chapter 12
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The First Cut is the Deepest.
A Substitute Bride For The Mafia Boss/Desmond Caramel Writes
Alessandro The air in the De Luca estate is different now heavier. Tension coils around every marble column, clings to every gold rimmed mirror, haunts every shadowed corridor. I feel it settle in my bones like a coming storm. She’s unraveling everything. Valentina. She walks these halls like they belong to her. Not with entitlement, but defiance. Like she’s daring the house, daring me to break her. Her heels strike the floors like gunshots. I hate it. And I crave it. She was never meant to be here. Her sister was supposed to be my bride polished, pliant, predictable. Bianca disappeared. And in her place came Valentina. A goddamn wildfire in silk. I watch her from the balcony. She’s in the garden, that damn file in her hands my father’s sins bleeding from every page. Sins that should’ve died with him. I should go down there. Demand answers. Rip the truth from her lips if I must. But I don’t. I light a cigarette instead. Let the smoke wrap around the anger in my chest. Wh
Last Updated : 2025-05-07Tangled Loyalties and Silent Wars
A Substitute Bride For The Mafia Boss/Desmond Caramel Writes
(Lorenzo)I misjudged her, Valentina Russo, the woman no one expected to last a week. A placeholder. A gamble.Now I’m sitting in the dark, nursing a bullet graze like some rookie. The De Luca estate is dead quiet, the kind of quiet that only comes before something breaks.She wasn’t supposed to fight back. I was sure she’d fold.But she didn’t.She pulled the damn trigger.And worse she meant it.The fire in her eyes wasn’t panic. It wasn’t fear. It was something colder. Something calculated.She made a choice.Alessandro thinks it’s handled. Thinks locking me in one of his designer dungeons fixes the betrayal. He’s forgetting who I am. I bled for this family before he ever had a seat at the table.I stand, the pain in my arm nothing compared to what’s coming. Outside the window, shadows crawl across the lawn like ghosts. Somewhere out there, Valentina’s awake. Watching. Waiting.Good.She should be.She stepped onto this chessboard thinking she was a pawn. Turns out, she’s somethin
Last Updated : 2025-05-08
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