They were never meant to trust each other. Let alone bleed beside one another. Elena Corsi is a strategist, a cold-blooded heir to one of Italy's most ruthless mafia legacies. She's never needed backup, and she certainly doesn't want it, not from a Russian, and especially not from Aleksander Petrov. He's the Bratva's second in command. Silent. Brutal. And impossible to read. Sent by Giovanni Moretti to "assist" her in training the next generation of soldiers and to stabilize the Italian mafia after it's new take over, Aleksander is everything Elena hates, detached, arrogant, and unreadably dangerous. He doesn't respect her rules. She doesn't care for his silence. But with the old families rising, alliances fracturing, and a target growing on both their backs, Elena and Aleksander are forced into uneasy proximity. Between training sessions, strategic meetings, and the looming chaos of the annual mafia ball, tensions crackle and control slips. Because loyalty is currency in their world-and attraction? It's a liability neither of them can afford. But when bullets start flying, and betrayal hides behind familiar faces, the real question isn't who they can trust... It's whether they'll survive long enough to figure out what they really are to each other.

𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐓𝐰𝐨 "𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐜𝐡"

𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐨𝐬. 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥. 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐁𝐞𝐝𝐥𝐚𝐦. . . . There are things you're taught not to do. Rules you're told to follow. People you're meant to forget. Flora never planned to end up here, but after one too many mistakes, her life dives for rock bottom. Now, she's trapped in a world she doesn't understand, haunted by a past she can't outrun. And at the center of it all stands the boy she'd sworn to forget. What once was fate, fractures into an illusion and twist into something dangerously evil. They were kids together. Friends together. 𝘜𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯'𝘵. She's new. 𝘏𝘦'𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵. She's fresh meat. 𝘏𝘦'𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦. What happens when they reunite? Secrets unfold. Chaos runs free. And the line between love and ruin sharpens into a thin blade, as history proves to repeat itself in its cruelest form. A girl. A boy. And a mad house that feeds on sin. There's no place to hide here. You can run, but you'll never get away. "𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘉𝘦𝘥𝘭𝘢𝘮. 𝘞𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺." 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐄𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐓𝐨 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲

𝙾𝚗-𝙶𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚐.... ❝ʜᴜʙʙʏ, ɪ ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ᴡᴀɴᴛ ᴀɴʏᴍᴏʀᴇ, ɪ ꜰᴇᴇʟ ᴛᴇʀʀɪʙʟᴇ...❞ ❝𝐉𝐚𝐠𝐢, 𝐛𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝, 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞.❞ The handsome, sexy man embraces the pretty woman in his arms, coaxing her tenderly as he feeds her the medicine. Lisa stumbles upon Taehyung, the most esteemed scion of all South Korea nation and ends up sleeping with him for the night. And he offers her benefits in exchange for their marriage, the newly appointed Mrs. Kim suddenly has the power to have everything she wished for. • ❝ʜᴜʙʙʏ, ɪ ꜱʟᴀᴘᴘᴇᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴏᴠɪᴇ Qᴜᴇᴇɴ ꜱᴇᴏ ʏᴇᴀ-ᴊɪ ᴛᴏᴅᴀʏ, ᴡᴀꜱ ɪ ᴛᴏᴏ ᴍᴜᴄʜ?❞ ❝𝐉𝐚𝐠𝐢, 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐭? 𝐋𝐞𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐫𝐮𝐛 𝐢𝐭.❞ • ❝ʜᴜʙʙʏ, ɪ ᴍᴀxᴇᴅ ᴏᴜᴛ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴄʀᴇᴅɪᴛ ᴄᴀʀᴅ, ᴀʀᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ᴀɴɢʀʏ?❞ ❝𝐉𝐚𝐠𝐢, 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐞? 𝐋𝐞𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞.❞ • ❝ʜᴜʙʙʏ, ɪ ᴀᴍ ᴛɪʀᴇᴅ ᴛᴏᴅᴀʏ, ɪ ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ᴡᴀɴᴛ ᴛᴏ ᴍᴏᴠᴇ...❞ ❀❄︎❁𑁍 𝖨 𝖺𝗆 𝗌𝗂𝗇𝖼𝖾𝗋𝖾𝗅𝗒 𝗌𝗈𝗋𝗋𝗒 𝖿𝗈𝗋 𝗆𝖺𝗄𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗌𝗈𝗆𝖾 𝖼𝖾𝗅𝖾𝖻𝗋𝗂𝗍𝗂𝖾𝗌 𝖺𝗌 𝖺𝗇𝗍𝖺𝗀𝗈𝗇𝗂𝗌𝗍𝗌 𝗁𝖾𝗋𝖾. ©🅻🅸🅶🅷🆃 🆁🅴🅰🅳🅴🆁

Maxi didn't know she was pregnant when she was kidnapped. Will Maxi's mana be enough to sustain them until they are rescued? Will Riftan make it in time to save them? This will be a series (I'm not sure how long) of short individual stories, some sweet (super fluffy) and some sad, of memories Maxi and Riftan make with their little family. Enjoy! Photo credit: SRSR_54