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On her twenty-first birthday, Alessia Vitale is forced to marry her father’s brutal enforcer, Luca Moretti—a political alliance sealed in a cathedral she never choosed, but the vows was never completed. Matteo Santoro, the most feared mafia don in the city, storms the wedding, puts a bullet in the groom and claims Alessia as payment for a stolen shipment. Torn from everything she knows, Alessia is taken to Matteo’s heavily guarded estate. She fights him at every turn, scratching, cursing, attempting escape, while her body betrays her with unwanted desire. Matteo is cold, possessive, and unrelenting. He disciplines her, claims her, and slowly dismantles every wall she builds. What begins as captivity shifts into something neither of them expected. Nights of raw, consuming passion blur the line between hate and need. When a rival family attacks the house, Alessia’s terror for Matteo’s safety forces her to confront feelings she has denied. In the aftermath, the dynamic between them softens. Tenderness appears alongside the dominance. Love is spoken first in desperation, then in certainty.