All Chapters of I Catfish My Bestfiend's Mafia Don Brother: Chapter 1

CHAPTER ONE — THE WRONG MANI had three rules when I created the account.Don't use my real name.Don't send a real photo.And absolutely, under no circumstances, fall for him.Three weeks later, I had broken all three rules in spirit, if not technically.My name online was Lia.The photograph belonged to a woman I'd found on an old public fashion page.And falling for him?That was the rule I was desperately trying not to break.I stared at my phone while lying across my bed, rereading the last message.Adrian: You disappear whenever I ask you something serious.I bit my lip.That man had an irritating talent for making ordinary words feel dangerous.Adrian Vale.My best friend's older brother.Thirty-one.Powerful.Controlled.And, according to practically everyone who knew his family, someone you didn't casually cross.People called him a mafia don.I never knew how much of that was exaggerated.I only knew that when Adrian walked into a room, people noticed.I'd met him several ti