Plot Twists Mafia Short Stories & Devotion Contract Marriage Novels

My life was a living hell after my mother died. My father was the Don of the Rossi family, but you wouldn't know it from the way I lived. My stepsister and stepmother treated me like a maid. When the family faced a crisis, they didn't hesitate to sell me off to Caspian, the heir to the Valerius family, for their own gain. The word on the street was that Caspian was a monster—a butcher with a face torn apart by scars. I refused, but my father threatened me with my mother's keepsakes, forcing me to sign a three-year marriage contract. On our wedding day, Caspian didn't even look at me. He slid the ring on my finger, his touch like ice. "Remember," he said, "you're my wife in name only. Don't expect anything more." I wasn't hurt. That was what I wanted, too. I thought we'd spend three years as strangers, and then I'd be free. But I never expected the day he'd look at me with those possessive eyes, kiss me hard, and declare, "You're mine. My wife. Forever." And damn it, my heart actually skipped a beat.

On the day of my arranged marriage to Julian Simpson, my groom ran away. Because his side piece got kidnapped, and she was carrying his kid. Julian came up with a ridiculous plan: he had Cassian Russo, a man with a similar build, wear a mask and take his place at the altar while he went to save his girl. What was even more absurd was that the ruthless, cold-blooded Don, Cassian, actually agreed to the bullshit. He stood in front of me, pressing an intimate kiss to the back of my hand. "Beautiful lady, care to consider a better candidate for a husband?" Three days later, a photo of Cassian and me kissing sent the internet into a screaming frenzy. And Julian, who finally realized what had happened, went completely insane.

To pay off my family's debt, I was forced to marry a comatose mafia heir. The city's elite were all waiting to see me become a young widow. On our wedding night, I used a damp towel to wipe down the still form on the bed. Suddenly, a lazy chuckle met my ear. "Enjoying the view?" I snapped my head up. A translucent man leaned casually against the nightstand, his long legs crossed, a smirk on his lips as he watched me with amusement. He nodded toward the "corpse" on the bed and raised an eyebrow. "Don't waste your energy. I can't feel the cold. How about we make a deal? You help me deal with the traitors in my family." I stared at his ghostly form, then calmly wrung out the towel into the basin. "Deal. But I want half the Volpe family fortune."