Semua Bab A contract with the ruthless mafia billionaire : Bab 31 - Bab 40

Lia’s POVNoah stood at the doorway like a ghost, nothing empty about the look in his eyes. They were sharp and cold. Maybe this was just a trick that Dante or Selene is playing on me.They had forced him to stand there like a puppet. But his silence….told me otherwise. I had known Noah all my life to see when he was forced into something against his will. He had chosen this.“Say something, Lia. Cat cut your tongue?” Selene’s cruel words cut through the air, poisonous and mocking. “And now even your brother is siding with us…..”“……Do you feel how worthless you really are? Kade won’t protect you this time. Not even your blood will bother to try.”Her words sliced deeper than Dante’s hand across my face.“Noah…” The name tore out of my lips, not out of fear. But disbelief so sharp that it hurt. “Tell me this isn’t real. I know you’re being forced…”He didn’t flinch or try to act as my words touched him. If anything, he stepped closer, as if my breaking apart gave him pleasure. The wa

Kade’s POV“Don’t fucking lie to me, Mark,” my voice dropped low and dangerous. “Tell me the truth, or I will peel your skin off piece by piece.”Mark was on his knees. Blood dripped from his mouth, one eye shut while the other was wild with fear. My fist cracked across his jaw with a more brutal force this time. It sent his head snapping back like a rag doll.“Tell me where Selene is,” I growled. Grabbed a fistful of his hair and yanked his head up so he’d look at me. The sound of his whimper made my blood boil even hotter.I had trusted this damn fool. He’d eaten at my table, one of my most trusted men. And all this time…that fucking bitch Selene had him on a leash. The betrayal clawed at me like fire under my skin.I slammed his head back against the wall, pressing a knife to his throat. His heart was racing so fast I could feel it in the knife itself. “She mentioned your name herself,” my voice turned cold.“I gave you time to confess these few days. But you chose to stay quiet. N

Lia’s POVMy eyes fluttered open with a sharp breath, my chest rising and falling as though I’d just been saved from drowning. For a second, everything around me was blurry—the pale light pouring through the curtains, and the tall walls of the room.Then it hit me—This was….Kade’s penthouse.My heart pounded violently as I sat up, confusion and relief tearing through me all at once. The last thing I remembered was being held captive at Dante’s house.Noah’s hand was wrapping a handkerchief forcefully around my face. The wicked smell of chloroform before my body went limp.How the hell did I get here?I gripped the sheets tightly with trembling hands. Different unanswered questions are running through my mind. The sound of the door creaking open drifted me off my thoughts.Kade.He stood at the doorway. Relief flooded through me so much that tears rushed to my eyes before I could stop them. My legs moved before I could think and I found myself stumbling across the room and into his ch

Lia’s POVOne week.Seven days since Kade ripped my heart out and left me bleeding with nothing but his lies since I walked in on him and Selene almost fucking each other.He freed me from that damn contract—not out of love, but out of cold, ruthless dismissal. And here I was back to square one again as the girl I used to be before I stepped into Kade’s world.Only that this version of me was worse and now a subject of mockery by the very city that once envied me.The hiss of the coffee machine filled my ears, drifting me away from my deep thoughts. My hands shook slightly as I slid the mug across the counter to the waiting customer.“Here’s your coffee ma’am. Extra cream, no sugar just like you asked.” I said, forcing a fake smile that didn’t quite reach my eyes.The woman didn’t even touch it, just lifted the cup to sniff it and set it back down on the table with a sharp clink. “This is disgusting,” she hissed, her lips curled like what I served her was poison.“Do you even know how

Lia’s POV“Why the hell are you here?!” I yelled, my voice echoing with a mix of disbelief and rage as my boots slammed hard against the pavement, the sound sharp enough to draw curious stares from passersby.Kade didn’t answer me immediately—but his cold and calculating eyes never left me. Then, slowly, a faint smirk curled the edge of his lips.“Just one week that I set you free and you get yourself arrested?”, he said finally, his voice quiet but mocking, each word like a blade cutting through me. “Of all things, you get arrested, little princess. Seems life without me is… pointless for you, huh?”I stepped closer, the air between us suddenly charged with tension. “What are you talking about?!” My fists clenched. “I didn’t beg you to get me out of prison, Kade Valen!”“And how the hell do you even know I was arrested?”His smirk deepened more before parting his lips to speak. “I have eyes and ears everywhere. Since the day I let you go, Lia… I’ve had someone watching and following