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Valeria Castillo, the fierce and headstrong 20-year-old daughter of Mexico's most feared cartel leader, has spent her life proving she's more than just a bargaining chip. But when her father's empire begins to crumble under relentless attacks, he strikes a desperate deal-marrying her off to the heir of the Italian Mafia to unite their forces and win the war.
Alessandro "Alessio" Romano, the cold and ruthless 23-year-old son of Italy's most powerful mafia don, has never been one for love. Women come and go, never staying long enough to break through his icy exterior. To him, marriage is nothing more than a business arrangement, and Valeria is just another piece in the game.
Forced into a union neither of them wants, Valeria and Alessio clash in a battle of dominance, both refusing to be the first to break. But as the war rages around them, their fiery hatred begins to ignite something neither of them expected. Valeria sees through Alessio's ruthless facade, and against his will, he finds himself drawn to the woman who refuses to bow to him.
In a world where loyalty is a weapon and love is a weakness, Valeria and Alessio must decide-will they destroy each other, or will their forbidden passion be the key to their survival?
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(COMPLETED & UNEDITED) His full lips were curled into a smirk as he grabbed her by the arm roughly. "And who might you be?" He asked her while she heard her father mutter something in a language she didn't know. "Estefania De Luca," she answered him as his smirk slowly turned into a smile. She wanted to break free from him and run to her father, but she knew that would only cause a bigger mess for her to clean up and she did not want to get into trouble with Dominic. Her father already was. She watched as he slowly turned to her father and laughed. "De Luca I didn't know your little daughter was so adorable," he said while her father just groaned out in pain. She instinctively tried to move forward only to be roughly yanked back by Dominic. "How old are you again kitten?" Stef tried to turn to her mother but he took her chin in his big hands and forced her to look at him. "I..I just turned eighteen," she forced out of her mouth. ************ Dominic Moretti doesn't care about anything or anyone except for the family business and money. Uses women like trash and treats people like it too. So when an opportunity pops up for him to be head over the family business and have more money, what's a guy to do? There's only one problem. Dominic has to settle down, and get married. Estefania De Luca is your average teenager. Pretty, sweet, shy, and just graduating high school. She has no experience with the harsh brutal world of violence. What's a girl to do when she's forced into such ferocious world with a man who could care less about her? What happens when these two cross paths? *Cover by: @duhmeter **Steamy Chapter is private
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