Novel Web Mafia & Cerita Protective Dark Romance

Tavian Veyr owns a shipping empire, commands Bellacosta’s most feared crime family, and can buy almost anything except the feeling that he deserves to exist. Since witnessing his mother’s murder as a boy, he has lived by one conviction: everyone he loves becomes someone he fails. Then Ilyra Vale walks into his abandoned conservatory and tells him his roof is falling apart. A gifted art conservator with little patience for powerful men, Ilyra is hired to restore the last place Tavian remembers his mother alive. Their uneasy partnership becomes a refuge neither expected. Through arguments, quiet meals, and memories uncovered beneath damaged paint, Tavian begins imagining a life beyond the empire that raised him. But Ilyra carries a truth that could destroy that future. Her father killed his mother. She has known for years. What began as fear becomes something uglier when she falls in love: a desperate willingness to postpone the confession that might cost her the only man who has ever truly seen her. As an anonymous woman calling herself Moth sends fragments of the past, a stranger known as Peregrine begins dismantling the family’s protected history. Both have reasons to want the truth exposed. Neither intends to leave Tavian’s world intact. When the secret finally breaks, love cannot erase complicity, and revenge cannot restore the dead. With his empire turning against him and Ilyra forced to choose whom she will betray, Tavian must decide whether loving his enemy’s daughter is his greatest weakness or his first freedom.

Elena Vance has spent five years being quiet. Quiet in her spotless kitchen, quiet under her husband’s fists, quiet when the world around her forgot she existed. Mark Vance has taken her savings, her friends, and her freedom. Then he loses $250,000 to the Ironhead Cartel. When Jax Mercer walks into their home, he doesn’t ask for the money. He takes what Mark loves most: his car, his watch, and his wife. And Mark lets him. Jax is the cold, calculating king of a criminal empire, a man who has never needed to raise his voice. He holds Elena as collateral, and he has no intention of being kind. But when he sees the bruises Mark left on her skin, something in him turns to ice. He doesn’t touch broken things. He doesn’t clean up another man’s mess. And he doesn’t share what belongs to him. Locked inside Jax’s compound, Elena is terrified, trapped, and sure she is about to be destroyed. Instead, she is handed a dangerous job: help Jax find a traitor hiding in his own house. It is the one thing she is good at, and the first time in years that anyone has needed her. But Jax is a man who trades in power, not mercy. Every day under his roof pulls Elena deeper into his world, and every night makes it harder for her to tell whether she’s his captive, his weapon, or something far more dangerous to them both. As rival cartels circle, Mark returns to claim what he sold, and the line between ownership and obsession begins to burn, Jax will have to choose: let go of his collateral, or burn down everything he’s built to keep her safe.

Elias Soren wants nothing to do with the Blackwell name. He lives under his mother’s surname, works in a quiet bookstore, and keeps his head down until the night a job goes wrong and his identity is exposed. His father, the Don, places him under the direct protection of Raphael Blackwell, the family’s ice-cold underboss. Raphael is feared, efficient, and rumored to feel nothing. What almost no one knows is that he is an Omega who has spent years burying his instincts under blockers and iron discipline. Elias fills the silent house with talk, flowers, and stubborn warmth. Raphael tells himself the arrangement is temporary. But the longer the sunshine Alpha stays, the harder it becomes to keep the walls standing and the more dangerous the underworld becomes for both of them.

As the only daughter of Ilias Dimitrou, I’m next in line to become the head of the Italian mafia. I’m getting good at putting on an act while I learn everything I need to know about the organization, but behind closed doors, I’m terrified. If my father’s men catch a whiff of my fear, they’ll rip me apart. Before I’m able to take over from my father, we’re attacked. I have to depend on my newly formed alliance to come to the rescue while I fight with every ounce of strength in my body to stay alive. I end up being guarded by Antonio Bernadi. For some reason, the damaged sniper refuses to leave my side, and I find myself becoming more and more dependent on him. He follows me like a deadly shadow, and I’m well aware of the fact that he’s the only person standing between me and certain death. I also know that's he's hiding something. When I take my rightful place as the head of the Italian mafia, can I conquer my fears and become the strong leader I was born to be?