Seraphina Vale believed in quiet lives and quiet hearts. She kept her world small: books, late-night shifts, and the promise that she would never let chaos touch her again. But chaos had already marked her. She just didn't know it yet. When she accidentally witnesses a brutal execution in the alley behind her café, she becomes the one thing the Moretti mafia empire cannot allow to live. Everyone wants her gone. Everyone except him. Rafaele Moretti, heir to Italy's most feared syndicate, has spent years building a heart of stone. He doesn't trust softness, doesn't touch innocence, and doesn't allow anyone close. Then he sees her. A trembling girl with wide eyes and a heartbeat loud enough to drown out gunfire. Something inside him... cracks. Instead of silencing her, he claims her. Instead of letting her fear him, he shields her. And instead of walking away, he binds her life to his - with a vow nobody in his world can break. Now Seraphina is trapped in a mansion where secrets whisper through marble halls, enemies circle like wolves, and a dangerous man watches her as if she's the only thing keeping him human. He tells her she's safe. He tells her he'll protect her. He never tells her what he intends to do to anyone who tries to take her away. But the Moretti empire is rotting from the inside, and Seraphina holds a truth she doesn't remember... a truth that could destroy him or save him. In a world made of blood, loyalty, and shadows, she becomes his weakness - and his weapon. And Rafaele learns the one rule every monster fears: You can cage a heart. But you can't stop it from choosing who to bleed for.