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All Chapters of Luciano: Lovers-to-Enemies-to-Lovers Mafia Romance : Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

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PROLOGUE“M y wife.” As he whispered those words into my ear, his warm breath seared my sensitiveskin. He pumped into me with slow, powerful thrusts. My nails dug into his muscles, the grip tight and every sensation within me burning with need. His voice was cocky and possessive.“Say you are mine,” he demanded.Just like the night we met, his gaze sent a blaze through my body and heat brushed through every inch of my skin. His gaze on me was like a hot and cold brush over my skin.“Yours,” I vowed.The moment our eyes met in his club three months ago, the air rushed out of my lungs and my life has been spinning in all the right directions. My body jolted with a strange electric sensation when his hazel green gaze watched me, the cockiness and arrogance written all over his face. But I still couldn’t resist the pull. I have been his from the moment we locked eyes across the room in that nightclub.Right now, I ached for him, needing more of him. His everything. I had never thought I

Last Updated : 2025-11-16

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Luciano pulled me closer to him and all thoughts of my family evaporated. Bending his head, heshowered kisses against my neck, whispering the naughty things we would do the moment we got back home. Shivers of delight ran through my spine and desire pooled between my thighs. My body burned with an inferno only he knew how to set off. He knew it would be on my mind throughout dinner. We hadn't even gotten to the restaurant, and I was ready to go back home.We were on our way to Maurizio’s. It has become our default restaurant date. There was nervous energy pumping through my veins. Everything between us had happened so fast, and truthfully, our whole marriage started as leverage against my family. I had been his willing victim, seeing a way out for me and my best friend. Yes, he forced me down the aisle, but I wasn’t blind to the benefits in taking that walk. Protection from my uncle and grandmother.And somehow, we ended up here. We never talked about the future or our plans. Hopefull

Last Updated : 2025-11-16

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LUCIANOThree Years Later I was the Ruthless King in the financial business world and in the criminal underworld. That’s what everyone called me.Ruthless King. Unforgiving king.Just ask my fucking wife who has been missing for the past three years and six months. The memory of the betrayal still tasted bitter. But one good thing came out of it; my heart was as hard as the Arctic ice.It had been three years and six months since the full-blown war erupted between the Vitale and the Romano family. The war between our two families started when the Romano family killed my mother and sister. Attacks, lives lost, fortunes burned... But it was that last betrayal that drove me insane. She chose them over me. She sold me out. And I never go soft on my enemies. I had stripped down the trust funds and empires of my enemies in this war. Some even lost their lives.I won, and the people who were on my side flourished and became wealthy beyond their wildest dreams. My empire grew tenfold. People

Last Updated : 2025-11-16

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GRACEI stared at the computer screen, smiling. It wasn’t the first time he had written me an email asking me to join his team. I assumed it was a man since all his transaction codes came from profiler Ruthless King.To: The GhostFrom: Ruthless KingYou should take me up on my offer. There are benefits to being on my payroll. KI chuckled as I typed my reply.To: Ruthless KingFrom: The GhostNo, thank you. I like being my own boss. I expect my fee to be transferred within 24 hours.Yes, I’m being generous giving you longer than anyone else.P.S. I’m off to the beach. Don’t even think about bothering me for the rest of the day. P.P.S. See, the perks of being my own boss. :-) I pressed the send button and smiled. It was sad that most of my social life consisted oftalking to my two-year-old son, my best friend, and email correspondence with Ruthless King. That name should have caused me fear, but I found that after what Gabriella and I survived over the

Last Updated : 2025-11-16

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LUCIANOIt wasn’t until early morning hours that I finally went to bed.The trap was laid. Every table last night was strategically placed. There was a good reason why I sat Alphonso Romano next to the Columbians. He was a greedy bastard, andI knew he couldn’t resist jumping on a deal. It was exactly what I wanted him to do. Raphael would play along as if his father’s flesh moving business was still alive and offer a deal to Alphonso. The bastard would take him up on it and promise a shipment to Benito King along with an advance payment. He would end up empty-handed because Raphael would never deliver him women to sell. His sister, Isabella Nikolaev, would never speak to him if he ventured into it. And just like that - Alphonso Romano would be squirming like a little rat, knowing Benito King never gave second chances. But not to worry - I’d kill him before Benito because I would ensure his torture was long and detailed.Money traded hands multiple times, and I made more than enough f

Last Updated : 2025-12-05

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“On the grounds of her being deceased. He claims he has evidence of his niece’s death.”The phone line went quiet and the silence stretched between us. I didn’t expect that response. I refused to believe the possibility of Alphonso speaking the truth. That motherfucker was born with a lie on his lips. Deadly anger simmered through my veins; the hate I felt even deadlier.“You there, Luciano?”“Yes,” I responded. “Thanks for heads up. Tell that hooker to keep you busy so you are not calling me in the early morning hours. Later.”I hung up. There was nothing more to say. I locked eyes on my form in the mirror in my large bathroom. She loved this fucking bathroom, would spend hours soaking in the tub while reading or working on her assignments.My phone flew through the air, crashing against the mirror, shattering it into a million pieces. The sound echoed against the tile in the bathroom but the hollow silence still remained. I stood in the middle of the mess I just created and all I co

Last Updated : 2025-12-05

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GRACEI frowned at the email. It was unusual for the Ruthless King to want another transaction so soon. He usually kept to two, three max per month.This would be his fifth. I re-read his email.To: The GhostFrom: Ruthless KingI have another batch. Interested? KIt was dangerous. I didn’t want to attract attention to myself. It was the reason we bothagreed that sticking to two transactions a month made the most business sense when we started this business relationship. And here we were, barely half a month gone by and he was already asking for the fifth transaction. I hated to refuse it, knowing it would earn us good money, but it would be worse if we lost it all for being reckless.Yes, we had it all secured and stashed away but it would be for nothing if we got ourselves killed or locked up.“What is it, Grace?” Ella asked me. I raised my head to meet her gaze. Matteo was taking a nap so we both worked. “You are frowning so I know something is the matter.”“It is the Ruthless Ki

Last Updated : 2025-12-05

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lucianowe sat around the conference room, in the Vitale skyrise building, the entire Manhattan view stretching on the west wall. The meeting was with the top members of the Columbian crime organization. There were only two of them along with Cassio andmyself. We had to keep it low and under the radar. I sent everyone home and ensured there was nobody around to bear witness to this. Luca had ensured that; there was nobody better than him at ensuring people were invisible and things remained unseen. It was Luca’s forté.Just like guns were Alessio’s forté, laundering money was mine, and drugs were Cassio’s and Nico’s. Raphael Santos did a bit of everything but human trafficking was a leftover legacy of his father’s that he was working on wiping out. We all did a few other things on the side and had legitimate fronts, usually in the form of casinos, but if I needed a drug shipment, usually I went to Cassio and Nico. For guns, it was always Alessio. Anyone that needed money cleaned, the

Last Updated : 2025-12-05

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GRACEThe sounds of the waves crashing along the shores of the little island that became our home was all around us, mixing with the smell of the sea. Sitting on the small balcony, overlooking the water, I sipped on my glass of wine. I felt at peace here. I didn’t think Icould find happiness again, but right at this moment, it felt pretty damn close to it. Even with the paranoid feelings I’d had when I rushed out of the market and barricaded Matteo and myself in the house.It was stupid, I knew it. If either my uncle or my husband found us, we’d be dead before we knew what hit us. We would never see it coming. My uncle was a sick, twisted old man that got off on power and torturing humans.Mom just finished her performance at Metropolitan Opera House in New York city. I headed backstage to see her. I felt hurt and anger in my chest, which never happened when it came to my parents.Hearing my mom sing her last song and dedicate it to a man in the audience, someone I have never heard

Last Updated : 2025-12-15

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To: The GhostFrom: Ruthless KingGood answer. I’d like to book the next six months of your exclusive services. Max three times per month, as initially agreed. Monthly retention two hundred thousand. The percentage fee per transaction remains the same. You accommodate nobody else.KSo he was testing me! I didn’t like it; it felt manipulative. I was done being manipulated.But could we afford to refuse his business? No, we couldn’t. Instead of replying, I closed the email and stared at the blank Google Search page. I was so tempted to use it. All I had to do was type in my family’s name or my husband’s name, and I knew there would be information flowing through the web browser. I had so many questions, but I knew they wouldn’t bring me any good answers. Nor any peace.Curiosity killed the cat, Grace. I needed to remember that.“What are you doing sitting in the dark, staring at your laptop?” Ella’s voice startled me, and I almost dropped my laptop.“Damn it. You scared the crap out of

Last Updated : 2025-12-15

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