All Chapters of Claimed by My Ex's Mafia Father: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

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The Perfect Bride

"Smile more, darling. This is the happiest week of your life."Eliora Aster lifted her champagne glass and smiled the way she always did at events, the smile that said everything is fine even when it wasn't."That's your work smile," Camille said. "I need your bride smile.""I am smiling.""Not really."Eliora laughed and looked around the terrace. Candles everywhere. White flowers. A live band playing something soft. She had planned nights like this for other people her whole career. Tonight was finally hers.It should have felt perfect.She looked at the crowd like she always did, checking the people and the timing. Then she stoppedAveline was missing.Her best friend had a seat at the head table. She had a maid-of-honor dress waiting upstairs. She had no reason to be slipping through the side doors near the private part of the house."Have you seen Aveline?" Eliora asked.Camille shook her head. "Not in the last few minutes."Eliora told herself it was nothing. Aveline had been ac

Last Updated : 2026-07-26

The Walk Out

The car didn't stop.Eliora took a step back, her bare feet cold against the stone. The headlights kept coming, slow and steady, cutting through the dark toward the front drive."Eliora!"She spun around. Caius was jogging toward her from the terrace, his tie was loose and his face still red from the scene she'd just made."Eliora, wait. Please."She turned back toward the car. It had stopped now, thirty feet away, engine still running. No one got out."There's a car," she said, her voice unsteady. "It's been sitting there. Watching."Caius followed her gaze and frowned. "It's probably just a guest's driver.""No driver waits with his lights off in the dark for twenty minutes.""You're shaken up. That's understandable, after tonight." He reached for her arm. "Let me take you home. We can talk once you've calmed down."Eliora pulled away. "There's nothing to talk about. And don't tell me to calm down.""I made a mistake.""You made a choice." Her voice cracked, but she kept going. "Mis

Last Updated : 2026-07-26

The Iron Sovereign

"You're safe," Severin said. His voice was calm. Too calm, given everything still happening a few feet away. "Do you understand me? You're safe now.""Who were they?" The words came out broken. "Why did they want my necklace? None of this makes sense.""Not here." His eyes swept the courtyard once, sharp, taking in every shadow. "We need to move. Now.""Move where? I do not know these people—" She pointed weakly at the men who were pulling her attackers toward a second car. "I do not understand any of this.""I know." His voice softened, just slightly. "I'll explain. But not standing out here in the open.""I want to call the police.""The police can't protect you from what just happened." His eyes held hers, steady. "I can.""You don't know that.""I do." He didn't blink. "Because I already have a good idea why they came for you tonight. And the police were never going to be enough."Her breath caught. Something about the way he said it, he was certain, unshaken, made her chest tight

Last Updated : 2026-07-26

Guest or Prisoner

"I'd like to leave, please."The woman at the door blinked, surprised. She was older, maybe sixty, with kind eyes and a housekeeper's apron. "Leave, Miss Aster?""Yes. Leave. As in walk out the front door and go home." Eliora kept her voice polite, but firm. "Is that a problem?""I'll need to check with Mr. Virelli.""I'm not asking his permission. I'm telling you I'm leaving."The woman's smile stayed kind, but something behind it didn't move. "Of course. Let me walk you down, then. It's easy to get lost in this house."Eliora doubted that was the real reason, but she nodded and followed her out of the bedroom.The hallway outside was long and bright, lined with old paintings and tall windows looking out over gardens she hadn't noticed the night before."This way," the woman said, leading her down a wide staircase."I don't think I caught your name," Eliora said."Agnes. I've run this household for over forty years.""Well, Agnes, I appreciate the help last night. But I need to get b

Last Updated : 2026-07-26

What He Owed

"My father," Eliora repeated. "What does my father have to do with any of this?"Severin gestured to the chair across from his desk. She didn't sit. She wasn't ready to make this conversation comfortable for either of them."Fine," he said. "Stand, then."He walked to the window, hands behind his back, looking out at the sea for a moment before he spoke again."Your father's name was Alaric Aster. He was a financial investigator. One of the best in Europe." His voice was steady, but slower now, like he was choosing each word with care. "We met through business, a long time before you were born. He wasn't afraid of me. Most people are. He spoke to me like I was just a man, not a title. We became friends because of that.""You never told me you knew him.""I'm telling you now."Eliora crossed her arms, holding herself together. "Keep going.""Your father discovered something in his work. Financial records that connected powerful people across governments and banks in ways that weren't s

Last Updated : 2026-07-26

Proof of Who She Is

"Proof of who I am," Eliora repeated. "What does that mean?"Lucien glanced at Severin, as if asking permission. Severin gave a small nod."Open the necklace," Lucien said. "The back of the pendant. There's a seam, if you look closely."Eliora's fingers went to her throat, unclasping the chain with hands that weren't quite steady. She turned the small oval pendant over in her palm, running her thumb along the edge until she felt it, a thin line she'd never noticed in seventeen years of wearing it."It opens?""Try it," Severin said.She pressed gently, and the back panel clicked loose, revealing a hollow space no bigger than a fingernail. Inside sat a tiny piece of metal, half of some kind of symbol, cut cleanly down the middle like it had once been whole and someone had broken it in two."What is this?" she whispered."We don't know yet," Lucien said. "But whoever sent those men last night knew it was there. They didn't want your jewelry. They wanted this specifically."Eliora stared

Last Updated : 2026-08-05

Six Cars

"Who sent that?" Eliora asked."I don't know." Severin set the phone down, his voice controlled but tight. "The number traces to nothing. A burner, wiped after sending.""Tell me the truth, or we will." Eliora repeated the words out loud, testing their weight. "Someone thinks you're keeping something from me. Are you?""I've told you everything I know for certain." His eyes held hers, steady despite the tension in his jaw. "What I don't know, I can't tell you. That's not the same as hiding it.""It feels the same from where I'm sitting."Before he could answer, the door opened without a knock. Marco, the head of security, stepped in fast, his face grim."We have a problem.""What kind," Severin said."Perimeter cameras just picked up six vehicles coming up the coastal road. Moving fast." Marco's eyes flicked to Eliora, then back to Severin. "It's Caius."Eliora's stomach dropped. "Caius is here?""He shouldn't know where this house is," Severin said, standing."He's your son," Marco s

Last Updated : 2026-08-06

What They're Saying

"It's already spreading."Lucien set his phone down on Severin's desk the next morning, his expression carefully blank in the way Eliora had learned meant he was choosing his words with care."How bad," Severin said."Bad enough. Three different versions by sunrise. One says you threatened Caius with violence. One says Eliora chose you over him in front of witnesses. One says—" Lucien hesitated, glancing at Eliora."Say it," she said."One says you've claimed her. That the Iron Sovereign took his son's fiancée for himself."Eliora felt her face go hot. "That's not what happened.""It doesn't matter what happened," Lucien said. "It matters what people believe happened. And right now, most of the Commission believes the third version.""Then correct it," she said, turning to Severin. "Tell them the truth. That you're protecting me because of a promise to my father, nothing more."Severin was quiet for a moment, his eyes on the window, on the sea beyond it."I'm not going to correct it,"

Last Updated : 2026-08-06

Camille

"I need to call Camille."Eliora was already reaching for her phone before Severin could respond. Two missed calls from the last hour. A voicemail she hadn't listened to yet."Wait," Severin said. "If Santoro already knows about the pendant, I want eyes on anyone close to you before you make contact.""She's my business partner, Severin. Not a threat.""I didn't say she was a threat. I said I want her protected before you tell her anything that makes her one."Eliora's hand paused over the screen. The logic landed harder than she wanted it to."Fine," she said. "But I'm calling her. Now."Severin nodded to Lucien, who stepped out of the room already dialing someone on his own phone. Eliora waited a beat, then hit call.Camille picked up on the first ring. "Eliora, thank God. Where have you been? I've called you six times.""I'm safe. I'm sorry, it's been—" Eliora glanced at Severin. "Complicated.""Complicated doesn't cover it. There are rumors everywhere. Someone's saying Caius's fat

Last Updated : 2026-08-06

Agnes

"You should eat something."Agnes set a tray down on the small table near the window, then didn't leave, hovering instead in a way Eliora had come to recognize meant she had something on her mind."I'm not really hungry," Eliora said."You didn't touch breakfast either." Agnes poured tea without asking, the same chamomile with honey she'd guessed correctly the first day. "Grief has a way of taking the appetite first. I remember that much."Eliora looked up. "Grief. Is that what this is?""Isn't it?" Agnes sat down across from her, uninvited but not unwelcome. "You lost your whole understanding of your own life in the space of two days. That's a kind of grief too, even if no one died this time."Something in the observation landed harder than Eliora expected. She wrapped both hands around the warm cup and said nothing for a moment."Severin's taking me somewhere tomorrow," she said finally. "To tell me everything. About my parents. About all of it."Agnes's expression flickered, brief,

Last Updated : 2026-08-06

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