Crystal
“I saved you from that wretched asshole,” Cassian whispered, placing one knee on the bed and leaning forward. “But I don’t do free favors, dolcezza.”
Alessia crawled backward until her back hit the headboard, her heart pounding violently against her chest. “Wh… What do you want?”
“You,” he purred, closing the distance. “I want to own you… Your body, your soul, your entire being. You are mine, dolcezza. Only mine.”
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Alessia’s world shattered the day her father died. Left at the mercy of a mother who despised her and blamed for causing her father’s death, Alessia grew up neglected and unloved, while her sister received all the affection.
Then her mother remarries — stepping into the gilded, lethal world of a mafia Don whose very presence screamed death. Alessia is dragged into the grand De Rossi estate, expecting more of the same cold isolation. Until the night her stepbrother, Cassian De Rossi, returns from a dangerous business trip.
Raised in the brutal underworld and a ruthless father, Cassian knows nothing of gentleness or love. He only understands one thing: Control.
The moment he sets eyes on the timid, trembling girl in his home, intrigue spirals into an all-consuming obsession.
All Alessia ever wanted was to be loved. Instead, she is dragged into a taboo reality with a dangerous man who demands her absolute submission.
But what happens when Alessia surrenders not just her body, but her heart and soul to a villain who swore he’d never fall in love?
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