Romans Contemporary Romance & Histoires Mafia Face-Slapping

My whole life i have been in my sisters shadows. Madelina was the best. She was the smart one, the beautiful one and the one my parents would sacrifice everything for. I have never thought about compeating with her not even when she destoryed my life and took my fiancee. But when my parents, the people i knew did not see me as her equal threw a paper at my face, my whole world stopped. They were asking em to take her place and marry Luciano. The devil faced Luciano that ruined everything he touched. The man who had asked for my sister but got me instead. Never had i thought that he would be the man to free me and show me a world i mattered and was loved.

One week before her wedding, Brielle learns the truth. The man she loved never loved her back. Their relationship was a carefully crafted lie. With everything on the line and no one left to trust, Brielle makes a reckless decision. She goes to the one man she's avoided all along. "Mr. Callahan, I accept your confession. Please marry me." The man smiles mysteriously and says, "What's the catch, Miss Langford?" "It's a contract marriage. I need your power and protection. In return, you'll get the shares I own." And just like that, she marries him, not knowing that he'd been waiting for her all along, watching and planning.

The night my fiancé abandoned me, I thought my life had hit rock bottom. Desperate to pay for my mother’s expensive medical treatment, I accepted a job as a private tutor—only to unknowingly step into the world of New York’s most dangerous mafia family, the Castellano family. That man was Luca Castellano. He was the Mafia Don who ruled the underground empire—cold, powerful, and feared by everyone who dared to defy him. Then he offered me a deal: I would become his contract wife and help him take care of his nephew, Leo, a child who had lost his ability to speak. In return, he would cover my mother’s medical expenses and protect me from being dragged back into the nightmare of my past. We agreed there would be no love and no promises. It was nothing more than a business arrangement. But when everyone believed I was just an ordinary woman being used by a ruthless mafia boss, Luca was the one who repeatedly stood between me and danger. In front of the entire upper class, he declared— “She is Nora Castellano. My wife.” The ex-fiancé who once looked down on me for being poor began to regret his choices. Those who had underestimated me began to fear me. And I slowly discovered… The man the world called a devil had a heart that was gentle only for his family—and for me. But when the day our contract ends finally arrives… Will Luca really let me walk away?

Every tear I shed feeds his ego. Every whimper, his pride. Every bruise he leaves behind, his silent claim over me. He takes me cold. Leaves me ruined. And I wait - quiet, breathless, for the next time he comes back to break me again. He thinks he has me in the palm of his hand. Thinks I’m nothing without him. A fragile wife, meek, obedient. A weakness he never needed. I let him believe it. I never tried to break the illusion. As long as I have his hands on me, As long as his shadows reach for me, That’s enough. But in the dark, daggers roam. And with every sound my heels make, they fall. He still thinks I’m glass, But he hasn’t heard me shatter.

“Elena Verlice, you are under arrest for aiding and possibly abetting the escape of an inmate. All you say now may or may not be used against you in the court of law so, you have the right to remain silent.” The voice of the fat policeman that looked like he had lived his whole life on donuts resounded in my office as he cuffed me. Oh my God! What the hell is going on? Why am I being accused of helping her escape? Wait…. He escaped? Tears started to well in my eyes. “How could he betray me this way? I had risked everything for him and this is all I get? I really hoped that he wasn't going to do it. I guess I was only a stepping stone in his elaborate plan. I guess I was the only one who fell, both in love and in life. I thought he…...” I trailed off in thought tears began to pour from my face for the first time in forever.