Preface

DEDICATION 🌺This story is for the women who’ve been told their time has passed.The ones who’ve been told that love has an expiration date. That passion has a deadline.I wrote this for you because you still deserve the butterflies. The soft moments and the sinful ones. The second chances and the wild, all-consuming kind of love.You’re not past your prime, you are the prime and anyone who can’t see that?They’re not the main characters in this story.So grab your wine, take off your bra, and settle in.We’re rewriting the damn narrative.⊱⊶⊷⊶⊷⊰DISCLAIMER This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, places, and events are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is purely coincidental and unintentional. This book, including all its content, is protected by copyright laws. All rights are reserved by the author, and no part of this book may be reproduced, transmitted, or othe

Last Updated : 2025-08-07

Chapter 1 - I was sold.

Alessia ─ ∘❉∘ ─Age 14 | Liguria, SummerI should’ve worn the Dior sandals.Not because the leather on my Ferragamos pinched, though they did, but because the grass in Liguria had a strange way of swallowing heels whole, no matter how delicately I walked. And I was walking delicately like a young lady just like my mamma told me to.But my patience was already fraying like the hem of my linen skirt. The one I’d insisted on having tailored in Milan just for this trip, only to realize, after stepping foot on the Lombardi estate, that absolutely no one here understood what real fashion looked like. Except maybe Signora Lombardi, who had a flair for red lipstick and drama. Still, she wasn’t exactly competition. She had to be at least forty.Salvatore walked ahead of us, his back straight, like it always got when we visited fellow crime families. He was twenty-four and already thought he ruled the world. He certainly ruled our house back in Chicago, Mamma let him. Papà tolerated it. I fou

Last Updated : 2025-08-07

Chapter 2 - Fearless little bitch.

Rino─𖤝─Age 16 | Poolside, Lombardi Estate, LiguriaI leaned back on the lounge chair, sunglasses half-down my nose, bottle of beer sweating between my fingers, water glinting behind me. Fabio flicked his cigarette over the edge of the stone and whistled low. “You’re in a good mood, Lombardi. What’d you do this time, steal another priest’s daughter?”I smirked, “Worse.”Gerardo, already half-drunk and burned to hell, leaned forward. “You get laid again?”“Not yet.” I took a long pull from the bottle, “But my parents found me a bride.”The boys went dead quiet for half a beat. Then fucking chaos.“No fucking way.”“Shut up.”“You’re joking, an arranged marriage?”I let the corner of my mouth twitch into that grin they all hated. “They want an American,” I said, “Capone blood. Chicago Outfit royalty.”Gerardo nearly choked, “The Capones? You’re not serious.”“Don Arturo is very serious,” I said, pulling my sunglasses off and tossing them onto the table beside me. “Apparently he want

Last Updated : 2025-08-07

Chapter 3 - Like a queen

Alessia ─ ∘❉∘ ─I was still soaked.The white bikini clung to me, and the chill of the air-conditioning hadn’t done a thing to stop the heat boiling under my skin.I paced the length of the guest room. Each slap of my wet heel against the marble was a reminder that I had been pushed..That I had fallen. That I had been laughed at like some brainless, half-naked American girl on display.That smug, entitled, infuriating bastard. He thought he could humiliate me in front of his friends, and I’d what? Just take it? No, I slapped him and he smiled. I wanted to rip his teeth out for it. I should’ve drowned him instead. A knock hit the door once then it opened before I could speak.I froze.In walked Elisabetta Lombardi, spine straight, pearls on her throat, eyes cold and right behind her still shirtless, still smirking was him.Rino.He had the audacity to wink at me the moment our eyes met.“Alessia,” Elisabetta said smoothly, “I brought Rino to apologize for his inappropriate behavior.

Last Updated : 2025-08-07

All Chapters of Promised To The Don: The Runaway Mafia Princess: Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

Preface

Chapter 1 - I was sold.

Chapter 2 - Fearless little bitch.

Chapter 3 - Like a queen