All Chapters of Buried Beneath Sin: Chapter 141 - Chapter 150

Power, she realized, wasn’t something other people handed you. It wasn’t in a man’s last name, or his blessing, or his body. It wasn’t in the empire built by men like her father and Mazzo. Power lived inside the smallest, most private space of all—the space between heartbeat and decision.That momen

She reached up, tracing the edge of his jaw with her fingertip. Nico’s brow furrowed, but she saw the understanding dawn there, slow and helpless. He exhaled, shoulders easing, gaze softening in the half-light. He moved closer, until her back brushed the altar, until the only space left between th

Nico’s breath was hot against her skin, heavy with the taste of smoke and iron. He pressed a kiss into the crook of her thigh, murmuring something she couldn't parse—Italian, maybe, or just pleading. When he lifted his head, his lips were swollen, a smear of color at the corner of his mouth, too sta

He pulled his phone from his pocket and showed her the screen—messages, threats, Cesare’s name bold at the top. “He wants proof that I’m close to you. That I’m—” “Wooing me,” she finished for him, reading between the lines. He gave a humorless smile. “Exactly.” Sasha exhaled, then leaned again

At Dock 12, a forklift “malfunctioned,” its forks sunk through a Maretti pallet like teeth in a cream cake. By the time anyone got it unstuck, the river had taken three crates no ledger admitted existed. A cop wandered by and noted how unlucky machinery could be. He continued wandering, humming a hy