beautyimi
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Elena Moroni has spent her whole life surviving in silence. Silence kept her safe. Silence kept her alive. Bruises fade, but words spoken to the wrong person in a cruel home never do. So she learned not to speak at all. Not when her father yelled. Not when he hurt her. Not even when she wanted to cry.
Then one night, everything goes wrong.
A debt her father owes drags Elena into a world she has only heard about in whispers - blood-stained money, ruthless men, and the name everyone fears to say too loudly: Dante Russo.
Dante is not a man people survive twice. Cold-eyed, merciless, obsessed with control, he rules the Italian mafia like a king built from violence. Men fear him. Women avoid him. Enemies disappear because of him.
So when Elena is thrown at his feet as payment for her father's betrayal, Dante expects fear.
What he doesn't expect... is silence.
No begging. No screaming. No lies.
Just a broken girl with terrified eyes that somehow still look at him like she's waiting for permission to breathe.
Elena is pulled deeper into a dangerous world of obsession, violence, power, and a love so consuming it could either save her...
or destroy them both