39 parts Complete Alessia has never spoken a single word in her life. Stolen as a child by a ruthless gang, she grew up in captivity, taught to believe that pain was a lesson and obedience was survival. Forced to work as a servant, she endured years of mistreatment, never questioning the twisted reality forced upon her. Despite the cruelty, she remains kind, her innocence untainted-but dangerously unaware of the true depths of evil in the world.
The night she escapes, everything changes.
Desperate and terrified, Alessia runs through the darkened streets of Naples, her fragile body weak from exhaustion. But fate has other plans. She stumbles-literally-into Matteo De Luca, the cold and merciless head of the most powerful mafia family in Italy.
Matteo is a man feared by all, a king in the underworld where blood and loyalty rule. He has no patience for weakness. No room for softness in his life. But when he sees the mute, trembling girl looking up at him with wide, trusting eyes-completely unaware of who he is-something inside him snaps.
She doesn't fear him. She doesn't know he's a monster.
And for the first time in his life, Matteo wants to protect something fragile instead of destroy it.
