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Half A Heartbeat Away

DramaQueenforreal

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Parts 38
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Reads 19,579
Votes 462
Parts 38
Time 3h 45m

DramaQueenforreal

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MAFIA ROMANCE [WEEKLY UPDATES🤭]

Beckham Blackford, head of the English mafia, had no time to mourn the death of his murdered wife, as he needed a new mother figure for his two kids. 

Enters the Italian mafia boss' daughter, Milena Ricci, only 20, she's forced to marry Beckham and become the nanny/mother figure for the kids.

They still need to figure out who carried out the murder that led them to this predicament, and navigate this new life on eggshells, inside and out. Sounds easy, but it's more complicated than that.

Tropes: Arranged Marriage, Forced Proximity, One Bed Trope, He falls first and harder, Age Gap (11 years), Present Dad, No Cheating.

ALL RIGHTS ARE RESERVED.


-Highest Rankings:

#1 in MarriageOfConvenience
#2 in FakeRelationship
#1 in DarkAcademia
#55 in MobBoss
#50 in ForcedProximity
#16 in SingleParent
#8 in MarriageAll Rights Reserved

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𝙊𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙈𝙞𝙣𝙚

"𝐸𝒩𝒪𝒰𝒢𝐻, 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝓁𝒶𝓎 𝒶 𝒻𝒾𝓃𝑔𝑒𝓇 𝑜𝓃 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓊𝓃𝓁𝑒𝓈𝓈 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉 𝑜 𝓀𝑒𝑒𝓅 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝒷𝑜𝒹𝓎 𝒾𝓃𝓉𝒶𝒸𝓉." 𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝒶𝓎𝓈 ---------------------------- "𝒴𝑜𝓊 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝓇𝑒𝓈𝓅𝑒𝒸𝓉 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒶𝓈 𝓂𝓎 𝓌𝒾𝒻𝑒, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒾𝒻 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒸𝒽𝑜𝑜𝓈𝑒 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝒻𝑜𝓁𝓁𝑜𝓌 𝒾 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝓂𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝓈𝓊𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒹𝑜 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝓈𝑒𝑒 𝓁𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝒶𝑔𝒶𝒾𝓃, 𝒾𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓊𝓃𝒹𝑒𝓇𝓈𝓉𝑜𝑜𝒹 𝑀𝓇. 𝑀𝑜𝓇𝓉𝑒𝓁𝓁𝒾?" 𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝒶𝓎𝓈 ---------------------------- Marco De Silva owns the largest Italian Mafia, his father continues to press him about getting married. Marco wants to find a wife who respects him, but he doesn't want to get married just yet. When, suddenly an unexpected deal pops up from someone he works with Lilliana Mortelli is the daughter of a mafia worker, she has been abused her whole life by her father. Her father works for the Italian mafia. Because her father hates her and has heard the situation that Marco is in to find a wife, he sells his daughter to him for 1 million dollars. Through the story the couple must start to get used to each other, Liliana gets put in danger by Marco's enemy and is scared to die. Marco is cold hearted towards his new wife but starts to develop feelings for her secretly. What will happen next, will they actually start loving each other, is it all fake?