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Amara barely slept.The storm outside had passed, but a worse one brewed inside her. She lay awake in the massive bed with silk sheets she hadn’t asked for, staring at the high ceiling, feeling like a bird trapped in a gilded cage.Her mind reeled with Dante’s words.> “Your mother was promised to me.”> “Your father stole her.”> “Now you’re mine, just like she should have been.”It sounded insane. Impossible.And yet… she had seen the photo. Framed. Preserved. Revered.Why did a mafia king have a picture of her mother on his desk?The truth clawed at her chest like a beast trying to escape.---The sun was already high when a knock came on her door.She didn’t answer.Bianca walked in anyway.“Mr. Moretti is waiting.”Amara turned her face away from the light. “Let him wait forever.”“He won’t like that.”“I don’t care.”Bianca walked to the window and drew the curtains back, flooding the room with sunlight. “You should care, Miss Voss. He’s not a man who tolerates rebellion.”Amara

The morning air was cool, laced with salt from the nearby sea. Amara stood at the window of her chamber, arms folded tight around her chest. The silence of the Moretti estate was deceptive. Beneath it, something always stirred—danger, secrets, and eyes that never stopped watching.But she wasn’t the same girl who arrived here trembling two weeks ago.No.The truth had cracked something inside her.She wasn’t here because she was weak. She was here because she was valuable. A pawn. A trigger. A legacy of betrayal.But even pawns can become queens—if they learn to play.And Amara was done being the hunted.She was ready to hunt back.---“Breakfast in the sunroom,” Bianca announced as she entered, no knock as usual.Amara turned from the window, dressed in a modest white blouse and dark jeans. No silk. No jewelry. Nothing Dante had given her.“He’s summoning me again?” she asked, voice like flint.Bianca smirked. “He doesn’t summon. He waits. And you go.”“Not today.”Bianca blinked. “E

There was a strange stillness in the Moretti estate the morning after she opened the west wing.The guards avoided her gaze.Bianca offered her breakfast but didn’t speak.Even Dante hadn’t come to find her.It was as if the house knew.Amara Voss was no longer just a pawn.She sat in the sunroom, sipping coffee she didn’t taste, the wind rustling through the ivy-covered windows. Her hands were calm, but inside, her mind was war.Her father had sold her.Her mother had lied.And Dante—He had known everything.But he hadn’t destroyed the files.He’d left the door locked—but not impossible to enter.Did he want me to find it?Did he want me to hate him even more? Or… did he want me to finally see the game board clearly?Because now, she did.And if this was a game…She was ready to play.---It started with Bianca.Later that morning, Amara found her in the greenhouse, trimming orchids with silent precision.“I need a favor,” Amara said.Bianca didn’t pause. “I don’t do favors.”“You d

The silence of the room was so profound it felt like a physical weight, pressing in on Amara, amplifying the frantic thrum of her own pulse. She swung her legs off the impossibly soft bed, her bare feet sinking into a plush Persian rug that felt like woven clouds. Every instinct screamed at her to flee, to find an exit, but the sheer opulence of her surroundings was a gilded cage, terrifying in its perfection.The chamber itself was enormous, a testament to antique grandeur. The walls were adorned with intricate tapestries depicting hunting scenes and mythical creatures, their threads faded with centuries of sun. A massive armoire, dark and gleaming, stood against one wall, its carved doors hinting at untold secrets. A desk, impossibly large and ornate, sat by the windows, its surface polished to a mirror sheen, reflecting the sunlight that streamed in. There was no clutter, no personal touches – just a cold, formal beauty that spoke of power and detachment.She moved towards the win

The silence after Dante’s departure was a living, breathing entity, more oppressive than any noise. Amara stood rooted to the spot where he had left her, the phantom touch of his fingers still burning on her cheek, the chilling scent of his cologne clinging to the air. “You have your mother’s eyes, Amara.” The words echoed in her mind, a discordant note in the terrifying symphony of her abduction. What did her mother, Isabella Voss, have to do with any of this? Her mother, a gentle artist who had died when Amara was barely five, a woman remembered only in blurry photographs and fragmented, loving whispers from her father – whispers that had ceased long ago, replaced by a brooding silence.Amara sank onto the edge of the vast bed, her legs suddenly weak. Her mind reeled. Her father's "decades-old betrayal." Dante's fury. The woman he loved. Was her mother the woman he loved? The thought was absurd, monstrous even. Her mother, involved with a man like Dante Moretti, a Mafia King? It de