Claiming Mercy

Arranged Marriage Second Chance Dark Mafia Romance

De: Vivienne Shade

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

I spent years being the villain in everyone else’s story.
The difficult daughter.
The dangerous sister.
The problem girl who needed to be punished.

No one cared that every scene I caused was just me trying not to be devoured.
That the “sweet” one was the real monster.
That I was the one being beaten, gaslit, and thrown to wolves in designer suits.

The only person who ever made me feel chosen was him—the heir, my brother’s friend,
the man who pulled me out of a hallway and tore a predator off my body at fifteen.

One night in his arms, one soft vow that no one would humiliate me again…
and I did the stupidest thing a girl like me can do.

I built my entire heart around a man who never came back.

While my family destroyed me,
while my sister twisted everyone against me,
he judged from a distance.

He believed every lie.
He signed a marriage contract with the girl he’d spent years avoiding—
because that’s what duty demanded.

Now the truth is out.

The “good” sister is dead by my hand.
The brother I thought I’d lost is back.
My friends know who I really am.

And the man I used to pray for shows up at my door
with flowers, apologies, and a ring I no longer want.

He says he was wrong about me.
He says he’s here to make it right.
He says he wants me to be happy.

If he really did, he’d break the engagement that chains me
to a love that almost killed me.

But vows are already signed,
the alliance balanced on our wedding,
and walking away could start a war.

He can’t free me.
And I refuse to go back to being the girl who begs to be loved.

So I make my own vow:

I will not lose myself to another man’s promises.
If he wants a wife, he can earn a woman who finally knows her worth.
If he wants forgiveness, he can bleed for it.

And if I ever fall for him again,
it will be because he stood beside me while I saved myself—
not because he played the hero in a story I outgrew.

He was never meant to deserve mercy.
Now he’ll spend his life claiming it—
one apology, one bruise, one broken vow at a time.

Claiming Mercy is a steamy, emotional dark mafia romance in dual POV, featuring a former “villain” heroine reclaiming her worth, a guilt-ridden heir determined to atone, a blood-soaked act of sisterly revenge, an arranged marriage gone wrong, and a love story about choosing yourself first— and daring someone else to love all the broken, sharp-edged pieces.