A·ban·doned
/əˈband(ə)nd/
adjective
1. having been deserted or cast of.
That is all she felt.
Abandoned.
Everything she's done,
Was exploited.
Yet, she stayed strong.
She's here, and still going.
Rexha Madden is simply a bad bitch. She's hard-headed and doesn't let most things get to her.
Most things.
Mafia donna, street fighter, and street racer.
That's who she is, or who she is known for.
Cliche as it is, she has been through hell and back and has the scars to prove it.
How she got them?
Well, we can get into that later.
Rexha was painfully abandoned by people who she had used to call family, her blood. She was sent away to a boarding school after she watched her mother bleed to death. Lets just say, that 'boarding school' was not what anyone thought.
Flavio Esposito is a cruel man. Or that's what most think. Being the italian mafia leader has its perks, but has drastic downsides. Having 6 kids, 5 sons and 1 daughter, would put anyone in a tricky situation. After watching the love of his life, his wife, die in front of him, he learned it was no longer safe for his daughter to stay there. So, he did the best thing he thought of. No, not training her like his sons and keeping them there. Ha not that at all. Instead, he sent his daughter away to, what he thought, an ordinary boarding school. Let me tell you, he soon regrets that decision.
She was only 6 when she was cast off and sent away. Sadly for her, she vividly remembers every detail that happened. 11 years later, Rhexa is, out of the blue, set to return 'home'.
How will she deal with the news?
Seeing the people who first abandoned her, will she be happy? Or bicker with them?
How will her brothers and father react to her?
Will she take the news well when she reunites with someone who she loved but also abandoned her?
Read along and find out.
Special thanks to @Jaygrfx7 for the cover!!
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𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒 & 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒 𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝟏
❝𝐀 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲, 𝐚 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥. ❞
Renata Vartanov had been through hell. Sold to a brothel and thrusted into prostitution at thirteen along with her then toddler brother, by her own father after the loss of her mother.
Forced to sleep with men every other night to keep her brother safe from the brothel's caretaker who would beat him for her mistakes.
She knew no happiness, she knew no joy except her brother.
And when an opportunity of his freedom presents itself to her, she happily leapt at the prospect. Even though she would have to give up the tiny sliver left of hers.
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❝𝐀 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐳𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭, 𝐚 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐭. ❞
Vincenzo (Viper) Romano. Don of the Italian crime family and leader of the Romano empire.
A dangerous man with a fiery temper, known to destroy his competitors and annihilate his foes in cold blood.
Cold, cruel, and calculative.
Those were the words he lived by. There was no room for remorse, regret, or romance in his world. Those three had almost broken him in the past.
During a conducted arson at one of his foes' trafficking auction, where Renata was almost sold, she is brought into his world accidentally, with no way out.
At first he detested her. It greatly pissed him off that she'd survived and he avoided her, vowing not to have anything to do with one of his enemies's whores.
But how long can he resist her innocence, her smile, the torture her pain caused to his heart that he refused to acknowledge?