All Chapters of Married To A Monster: Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

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CHAPTER FIFTY ONE

Zara’s POVThe silence in the mansion felt like punishment. The marble halls, once echoing with Lucien’s brisk steps and her clipped heels, now sat in a hush thick enough to choke on. She had known things were getting bad — the whispers, the canceled deals, the hollow look in Lucien’s eyes — but when she walked into his study that morning and saw the unopened letters stacked in a trembling pile, she finally understood what “falling” looked like.Lucien sat behind his desk, elbows propped on his knees, head buried in his hands. The man who once commanded boardrooms with a glance looked small. Vulnerable.“Lucien?” she whispered.He didn’t look up. “It’s gone, Zara.”Her brows furrowed. “What’s gone?”He looked up then — those storm-blue eyes raw with a pain that frightened her. “Everything. The contracts, the investors, the shares. The accounts are frozen. My reputation’s in shambles. They’ve linked my name to Enzo’s laundering case and… no one wants to do business with me anymore.”He

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CHAPTER FIFTY TWO

LUCIEN’S POVBy nightfall, my pride was gone.I had built empires, commanded men, made enemies tremble with a word — now I couldn’t even pay the power bill for the penthouse.Zara was pacing the room, still in her silk robe, her face pale from lack of sleep. She was furious — not just at whoever sent the tape, but at the universe itself.“I’m not paying them,” I said, voice hoarse.She stopped mid-step. “Lucien—”“No. If we pay, they’ll bleed us dry. You know how this works. It’ll never stop.”“Then what do you want us to do? Wait for it to go viral? Let your investors see it? Let my father see it?”“Your father already knows.”Her mouth fell open. “What?”“I got a call,” I said bitterly. “Enzo said, and I quote, ‘You finally gave the world something worth watching.’ Then he laughed and hung up.”She turned away sharply, her eyes glassy. “He’s trying to break us.”“He already has.”She faced me again, and for a moment, the fury faded. “Then let’s make him regret it.”Something about t

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CHAPTER FIFTY THREE

ADRIAN The message had come at dawn again— a single line on an encrypted number: “If you want to know who really framed your sister, come alone.” No name. No address. Just a location ping in a quiet part of the city — an abandoned art gallery that hadn’t seen light in years. Adrian almost deleted it. He had received enough cryptic messages since stepping into Zara’s chaos to know they usually led nowhere but trouble. But something about this one… it felt deliberate. It felt personal. The moment he stepped inside, the air smelled like turpentine and dust. Footsteps echoed off cracked marble, and sunlight bled through the shattered glass ceiling. Then, a voice — soft, feminine, venom wrapped in silk. “Still dramatic, aren’t you?” Adrian froze. He knew that voice. He hated that voice. “Vanessa.” She emerged from the shadows wearing white, her hair falling in loose waves, her smile calm and sharp all at once. She looked different — softer, but only on the surface. “I was wonderi

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CHAPTER FIFTY FOUR

Vanessa’s POVThe halls of Don Enzo’s estate still smelled like money, power, and fear — her favorite perfume.Vanessa’s heels clicked softly across the marble floors as she trailed her fingers along the golden bannister. Servants moved out of her way like shadows. She smiled, sweet and poisonous, drinking in the fear she had missed for far too long.Don Enzo had called her in that morning — not out of affection, but strategy. He needed her. And that was all Vanessa ever required: relevance.“You walk like you own the place,” Enzo said from his desk, cigar smoke curling toward the ceiling.“I was once a queen,” she said lightly. “Before your daughter decided to steal my life.”He smirked, slow and knowing. “You mean before you tried to kill her?”Vanessa tilted her head. “You call it murder. I call it balance.”He laughed softly. “That’s why I keep you close, Vanessa. You’re poison in perfume.”She stepped forward, hips swaying, voice velveted with charm. “And you like poison. You alw

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CHAPTER FIFTY FIVE

ZARA POV The rain didn’t fall that night.It attacked the earth — merciless, cold, relentless.It hit me in the face as I tore through the iron gates of my father’s mansion, boots sinking into mud, the thunder swallowing my heartbeat whole. I barely felt the weight of the soaked trench coat clinging to my skin, or the gun pressed against my thigh.Every drop on my face could’ve been tears — but I’d run out of those a long time ago.The guards at the door moved too slow.“Move,” I hissed. One reached for his weapon, and my gun was already drawn — safety off, rage steady. “I said move!”They parted like the Red Sea, heads bowed, unwilling to meet my eyes. Because they knew.They knew who I’d come for.Inside, the mansion smelled of smoke, scotch, and old sins. The fire crackled in the hearth — golden light licking the edges of portraits that shouldn’t have been hanging there anymore. The dynasty of a man who believed the world belonged to him.And there he was.Don Enzo. My father. My

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CHAPTER FIFTY SIX

ZARA’S POVThe world smelled of smoke.When I opened my eyes, the ceiling wasn’t mine. Neither were the sheets. The faint antiseptic in the air mixed with pine and rainwater. A safehouse. I knew that smell—Lucien’s kind of safety. A safety that came with guns, passwords, and ghosts.I sat up fast. Pain lanced through my ribs. My voice cracked.“Lucien?”The door opened before the second syllable could leave my lips. He stepped in—hair tousled, jaw clenched, shirt half-buttoned like he hadn’t slept in days. His eyes were ringed red, the color of grief he didn’t know how to name.“Zara,” he breathed, like my name was both a relief and a curse.“What happened?” I rasped. “Where’s Adrian? Where’s my father?”He didn’t answer. Not right away. Just dropped a folded newspaper on the blanket. The headline screamed in black ink:ENZO ESTATE IN FLAMES — NO BODIES FOUND. SON MISSING.My heart stopped. “No bodies?” I asked. “What does that mean?”“It means…” He swallowed hard. “They didn’t find y

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CHAPTER FIFTY SEVEN

The cell door slid shut with a sound that felt like a verdict. Zara stood a few feet away from Vanessa, hands pressed flat to the cool metal, and watched the woman who had broken everything smile as if she’d won a prize.Vanessa was dressed in a tailored cream suit that had once been the kind of thing Zara would have envied. It sat on her like armor now — the same armor she had always worn when she needed the world to believe she was untouchable. Her eyes, however, were thinner than they used to be. There was a sharpened hunger in them, the kind that had eaten a man’s career and a father’s reputation without so much as a backward glance.“I know where she is,” Vanessa said, her voice velvet over steel.Zara’s heart stopped in her chest. The photograph in her pocket — the one that had started everything — felt like a lead weight. She had carried it like a promise and a threat. Now Vanessa’s words turned it into something else: leverage.Vanessa produced a slim tablet from the inside po

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CHAPTER FIFTY EIGHT

Vanessa walked into the hospital like a queen entering a chapel: heels precise, perfume a thin, dangerous fog. The ICU corridor smelled of disinfectant and sleep; monitors beat a patient rhythm that thudded at the base of her skull like a metronome. Nurses glanced up and away. Men in suits pretended business as usual. Only the old woman at the reception desk watched her with an expression that looked like the cross between pity and calculation — the same expression Vanessa returned with the interest of someone who always priced people for usefulness.Don Enzo lay in a bed that seemed too small for a man who had once filled rooms with his presence. Tubes threaded away from him, a boil of gauze around his head and neck where the burns had done what the bullets and blackmail never could: expose him. His jaw was set, but his eyes were the hard glass of a man who had been punched too many times to flinch. He recognized Vanessa when the curtain parted, and his pupils narrowed in a way that

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CHAPTER FIFTY NINE

DON ENZO’S POV He could feel death crawling closer. The room smelled like regret and blood — old blood. His. Don Enzo sat behind his oak desk, the one that had seen too many sins and deals, too many broken men. The world outside his window was still dark when Lucien arrived. He looked tired, hollow-eyed, as if the night itself had drained him of everything but guilt. “Sit,” Enzo said, voice thin but sharp as a blade. Lucien obeyed. There was no defiance left in him, not after everything that had happened — the arrests, the betrayal, the slow collapse of his empire. Enzo slid a black drive across the table. “Take this. It holds everything — every account, every name, every debt that ties our enemies together. If anything happens to me, protect Zara. Keep her out of this war.” Lucien’s brow furrowed. “What war?” “The one I created,” Enzo said simply. “And the one she’ll inherit.” He leaned back, pain cutting through his ribs. “You think I don’t know what I’ve done? You

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CHAPTER SIXTY

ZARA’S POVThe funeral was over, but the storm hadn’t passed.Zara sat alone in her father’s office that night. The candles flickered low, casting long shadows across the portraits that lined the wall. Men of power. Men of ruin. Every one of them wore the same cruel smirk — including the newest addition: Don Enzo Marino.Her father’s death hadn’t brought peace. It had brought silence — and in that silence, danger grew.She replayed every word he’d ever said in those last days to lucien.“Protect her.”“Keep her out of the war.”It was too late for that. The war was already here.Her phone buzzed again — Adrian.“Did you get my message?” he asked.“I did.”“You shouldn’t have gone to the burial with Lucien. People are watching. Enzo’s allies, the council, the families—everyone’s trying to see who takes power next.”Zara’s voice was calm, but her hands trembled slightly. “They’ll see soon enough.”“Her chest felt like it was filled with ice.Moments later, a knock.Lucien stood at the d

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