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Il appelle ça de la protection. Moi, j’appelle ça une prison. À douze ans, je suis apparue, ensanglantée, devant les grilles de la villa Salvatti à Londres. Sans nom. Sans passé. Sans mémoire. Ils auraient dû me renvoyer. Au lieu de ça, ils m’ont recueillie — et m’ont transformée en leur secret. Six ans plus tard, je suis majeure. Loyale. Silencieuse. Obéissante. Jusqu’au jour où le Don me rappelle en Sicile. Une nouvelle maison. Un nouvel ordre. Et un mariage décidé depuis longtemps — pour que je sois “en sécurité”. Sauf que mon futur fiancé n’est pas ...

❖ I was raised on rules: be quiet, be perfect, be untouched ❖ My life was mapped out before I even knew how to dream—an obedient heiress with no choices but the ones others made for me. Then he looked at me like a secret he intended to keep. A stranger with danger in his smile and a voice that made my pulse obey. The first kiss felt like a crime; the second, like confession. Every touch breaks another chain, every word pulls me deeper into a world I was never meant to enter. With him, I taste freedom. With him, I risk ruin. Because desire doesn’t stay harmless—it sharpens into ...

She came to this city for a fresh start. She found a dead man in a back alley instead. One wrong turn puts her face-to-face with an execution she was never meant to see. Guns, blood, a cold voice ordering someone’s death—and a pair of icy eyes that brush over the shadows where she’s hiding. She runs. She scrubs the memory from her skin. She tells herself to forget and stay quiet. But silence doesn’t pay the bills. Desperate for a job, she applies to a secretive private company and lands an interview with its ruthless young boss—a man who rules his world like a king and wears ...

He tells me to call him Michael. But when our paths cross, he’s something else entirely: a warning cloaked in shadows. And now, he’s my boss. All I wanted was to vanish. To run until the cold numbed my pain. Instead, I’m thrust into a world of glass and steel—as his personal secretary. Michael Silver looks at me like he’s already unraveled my secrets. Like he knows what I’m fleeing from. Like he’s just waiting to catch me. He issues commands I obey. Asks questions I dodge. Touches me as if he has every right—and my heart suddenly remembers how to burn. But darkness festers ...

HIS JOB IS SIMPLE: PROTECT THE EMPIRE. ELIMINATE THREATS. NEVER HESITATE. Then the enemy sends him a woman he can’t pull the trigger on. The enforcer has always been the sharp edge of the family’s power—the one who makes bodies disappear and problems go quiet. He doesn’t care who bleeds, as long as the empire survives. Until she appears in his crosshairs. She shouldn’t be anywhere near this world. She’s supposed to be a contact, a source, a means to an end—maybe even a traitor. Instead, she’s stubborn, scared, and far too brave for the situation she’s in. The deeper he ...

HE RUNS THE UNDERGROUND LIKE A KING—CASINOS, ILLEGAL RACES, BACKROOM DEALS. Everyone who owes him pays… one way or another. The kingpin of the empire doesn’t believe in mercy. Money is power, and power demands its due. When a quiet, desperate woman walks into his casino with more courage than cash, she’s just another name on his ledger. Until she gambles with something she can’t afford to lose: her freedom. One bad night leaves her drowning in debt she can never repay. He offers her a way out—on his terms. Work for him. Live under his roof. Follow his rules. No questions. No ...

I wanted to vanish. No traces, no questions, no closeness. Instead, I’m kissing the man who reads me like a file—yet doesn’t truly know me. Michael Silver is control in a tailored suit and sin in a single glance. He sets rules I shatter. He offers friendship while his hands teach me how desire burns. He says we’ll stay clean. I know we’re already lost. My past has a name. And it’s knocking again. Every scar I hide. Every lie I breathe. Every step I take away from him—leads me right back. He wants to save me. I want to fall. And between us lies a truth that could ruin us both. ...

HE’S THE PROBLEM CHILD OF THE EMPIRE—THE WILD PRINCE WITH TOO MUCH MONEY, TOO MANY VICES, AND NOT ENOUGH FEAR. Street races. Drugs. Fights. Scandals. The family cleans up his messes… until one night, his chaos crashes straight into a woman who refuses to be another thing he ruins. She’s everything he’s not: disciplined, focused, determined to drag herself out of the dirt by sheer will. She knows exactly what this world is capable of—and exactly what kind of monster he’s in danger of becoming. She should walk away. Instead, she keeps getting pulled back: to his bruised knuckles...

He saved me once. He lost me once. Now he wears a different name—but the same shadows. I see who he is, and the truth tears my skin apart. So I run. Change the streets, my voice, my gaze. Vanishing feels safe. Hope does not. But the city breathes his presence. Every morning cuts me open, because my hands have learned to reach for him. His grip is too tight, his heart too dangerous—yet it’s the only place I can breathe. He’s no hero. He’s not good. He’s just mine… and that’s exactly what can never be. My family lies to me with “protection.” His family lies to him with “...

❖ He claimed me as collateral. Now, he wants my submission. ❖ I came looking for answers. Now, I belong to a man who doesn’t ask—he takes. Cold. Ruthless. Lethal. He rules his world with an iron grip, bending men to his will and breaking anyone who defies him. They say I will kneel. That no matter how hard I fight, I will crave the chains he wraps around me. But I don’t bend. I don’t beg. And I sure as hell don’t belong to men like him. Except… my body betrays me. Because when he touches me, I burn. When he whispers in my ear, my resolve crumbles. And when he looks at me ...

❖ Power was never what I wanted. But the moment I met him, I learned it was the only way to survive. ❖ He claimed me as collateral. Now, he wants my submission. What began as an ordinary day descended into a nightmare—one built on control, betrayal, and the ghosts of a past that refuses to die. Every choice I make cuts deeper, every truth I uncover drags me closer to the edge. They say power makes you untouchable. They’re wrong. It makes you a target. In his world, loyalty is a currency, and one wrong move can destroy everything. Friends turn into enemies. Enemies wear familiar ...

Il suo lavoro è semplice: proteggere l’impero, eliminare le minacce, non esitare mai. Poi il nemico gli manda una donna contro cui non riesce a premere il grilletto. L’esecutore è sempre stato il lato più tagliente del potere della famiglia: quello che fa sparire i corpi e zittisce i problemi. Non gli importa chi sanguina, finché l’impero sopravvive. Finché lei non compare nel suo mirino. Non dovrebbe neanche sfiorare questo mondo. Dovrebbe essere un contatto, una fonte, un mezzo per arrivare a un fine, forse perfino una traditrice. Invece è testarda, spaventata e fin troppo ...

È ARRIVATA IN CITTÀ IN CERCA DI UN NUOVO INIZIO. Ha trovato un cadavere in un vicolo, invece. Una svolta sbagliata la mette faccia a faccia con un’esecuzione che non avrebbe mai dovuto vedere. Pistole, sangue, una voce gelida che ordina la morte di qualcuno… e un paio di occhi di ghiaccio che sfiorano l’ombra dove lei si nasconde. Lei scappa. Si strofina via quel ricordo dalla pelle. Si ripete che deve dimenticare e restare in silenzio. Ma il silenzio non paga le bollette. Disperata per un lavoro, si candida in una società privata molto riservata e ottiene un colloquio con il suo ...

Domina il mondo sotterraneo come un re: casinò, corse clandestine, affari nei retrobottega. Chiunque gli debba qualcosa paga… in un modo o nell’altro. Il boss dell’impero non crede nella misericordia. Il denaro è potere, e il potere pretende il suo tributo. Quando una donna silenziosa e disperata entra nel suo casinò con più coraggio che contanti, per lui è solo un altro nome nel registro dei debiti. Finché non scommette qualcosa che non può permettersi di perdere: la sua libertà. Una notte sbagliata la lascia affogare in un debito che non potrà mai ripagare. Lui le offre una...