Chapter 2

ELARA POV“My father…he’s been…why?” I ask warily.Surely this man who just murdered someone in front of me isn’t here to share coffee with my father. I’m sure whatever he has to do with my father isn’t something good. Or does my father—His voice is detached with a deep gravelly timbre. “Your father stole from me.”Great, just as I thought. The more I hear about my father, the more like a stranger he feels. Why does it seem like he’s stolen from everyone and their fathers. Even this man who is insanely dangerous and heartless enough to kill without so much as a flinch.When the first debtor came for me, I pitied my father, and told myself the cost of raising two daughters during a recession must’ve been too much. But now, with debtors crawling out of every corner, I can’t defend him anymore.I let out a shaky sigh, exhaustion bleeding through the fear choking me. I don’t even doubt what he said.He isn’t the first, and I’m sure he won’t be the last.Still, there’s something different

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Chapter 3

THE DEVIL POVAn eye for an eye.Blood for blood.Family for family.Sin for sin, until the scales are even.Until every debt is paid in crimson.I don’t make the rules. Cosa Nostra does.Adrian Petrov betrayed me. He ran away with one of my shipment worth of millions three months ago. And words have it that I’m not the only one he screwed over. Not that I care about the shipment or the money. But here, reputation is all that matters, and I can’t let a mere soldier of mine outsmart me without consequence.So, I’m here for retribution.Easy right?Wrong.The plan blew apart the moment I saw her. Long midnight hair spilled over a heart-shaped face, and those sage-green eyes burned like embers. Not with fear, but with something that ricocheted through me anywayCazzo. (Fuck)Instead of the blood I expected on my hands, I found myself taking her. The girl who was supposed to be collateral became my prisoner.A nerve ticks in my temple, annoyance clenching around my fists.Isn’t she supp

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Chapter 4

THE DEVIL POVIt doesn’t take five minutes before Uccellina was found. (little bird)Her escape plan was doomed from the start. If one of my many men guarding my house haven’t caught her, my trained dogs would have her running back into the house for safety.I stare across the backyard lake, vodka cooling in my tumbler. She’s been under my roof less than an hour and she’s already a headache I didn’t need.It isn’t too late. I could throw her out on the street and be done with it. Better yet put a bullet in her skull like I meant to. The latter leaves a metallic tang in my mouth. No.Anger knots in my chest at the very idea that I might feel anything for her. I don’t do soft. I don’t keep people alive for sentiment. Elara is the daughter of a traitor. Nothing more.I take another sip and the vodka bites down, but it doesn’t warm me. It only sharpens the edge of my irritation.Luca’s voice blooms behind me. “She’s been found.”I glance over my shoulder to see him filling the doorway. I

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Chapter 5

ELARA POVA tremor rattles through me as the devil in Armani suit with a face so perfect he can freeze time steps out. Pity, they don’t reflect his otherwise darkened soul and charcoaled heart.His word isn’t lost on me.I’m probably going to a sex toy for this man. He’ll squeeze every last drop of what my father owed and toss me away like trash.My heart drops to my feet, scattering like a broken porcelain vase.I have never had sex before. I have been waiting for someone special all this while. Yet, this is how I lost my virginity.Nausea coils in my throat that I would be giving in to a monster with cruel words. A predator in silk and sin.Diana walks in moments later, a scowl deep into her features. A guilt grips my chest for breaking the plate on her head earlier, but it quickly drowns in the sea of bitterness and despair.I’m like an unmovable doll, too overwhelmed by the misery surrounding me as Diana comes up behind me, pulling the filthy dress over my head until I’m naked.Th

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Chapter 6

ELARA POVThe silence thickens until the air feels heavy enough to choke on. We just… stare at each other. His gaze drags over me, trailing heat in its wake as every second stretches tighter and crueler.Icy blue eyes flicker with something that drops in my stomach, and spread like a hot, tingling sensation.My breath seizes, every nerve tightening in anticipation as I await his answer. Though, deep down, I already know the answer. Why will he ever do my bidding? He’s the devil, he doesn’t follow rules and no one ever tells him what to do—“Fine.”His sharp, low growl startles me, and my lips part, shocked.“Thirty days,” he continues, “You get your little countdown.”His hand brushes my jaw, tilting my face up until his breath ghosts over my lips.“But when the clock runs out…you’re mine. In every way that matters.”I shiver, hating that the sound of mine feels like a promise carved into my skin.The bed springs back up at the absence of his heavy weight, and I watch his broad should

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Chapter 7

THE DEVIL POVMy mouth quirks before I can stop it at Elara’s obvious fumble The fork slides from her fingers and clatters against the plate. Her cheeks bloom a shade redder than a ripe tomato.The sight of her like that, awash in fluster, stokes something low and dangerous in my chest.Annoyance flares in my chest when I realize I’m enjoying whatever this is.Fucking her out of my system should’ve been the cure for whatever the hell’s wrong with me, but I couldn’t do it. Not when those sage-green eyes looked up at me full of fear and desperate plea that twist something tight and sick in my gut.Besides, forcing myself on a woman isn’t my thing. I’m not the one who’s always desperate for a fuck from a woman. It’s usually the opposite. Women come to me, beg for my cock, and thank me afterward.So that’s that.She’s not curious about me. That much I know. She’s just stalling, still clinging to the delusion that she’ll get away someday. But hell will freeze over before I let her go. At l

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Chapter 8

ElARA POV“The master will like you to join him for breakfast.” The words that come out of Diana’s lips makes me groan.Respectfully or maybe not so respectfully, I don’t want to spend a single second in his company. His unfiltered, crude words still echo in my head, like cigarette smoke that clings to everything no matter how many times you wash it out.Even when I finally drifted off last night, his voice was there, low, rough, crawling into my dream like it had every business being in it.So no. I don’t want to see him. I don’t want to share a table, a room, or a breath with him. Because of what he said. Because I hate him. Because he brought me here against my will.“I’d rather not,” I mumble, pulling the warm blanket over my head. One good thing about this place since I arrived. Well, that and the food.“And I don’t care if it’s an order.” My voice is muffled beneath the blanket, syncing with Diana’s monotonic “It’s an order.”A beat passes before the blanket is yanked down my bo

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All Chapters of The Don's Property: Chapter 1 - Chapter 8

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8