Beauty is a double-edged sword. It can be a blessing or a curse.
For Rosa, it is more of the later. Her whole life she has been viewed, treated and used like an object by others, including her own family.
She went to the crime ridden metropolis of Little River to become a nurse, and leave behind her troubled past as a teen model.
However, her looks cause her life to take a turn for the worst again when Nero Romano, the handsome and rich heir of the most powerful mafia in Little River, sets his eyes, and claws, on her.
Made captive by this obsessed and unstable man, Rosa finds herself again reduced to an object. She is abused by him almost to her breaking points, but refuses to give in to him.
Will Rosa find any hope of escaping from Nero, or she ultimately has no choice but to surrender to him?
Not really, as both their fates and of the Romano family as a whole will be changed by one man.
A man with no past and no future.
A man with too little, yet so much to lose.
A man whose heart yearns for revenge as much as it is filled with piety.
This man... is The Serb.
WARNING!
This story has depictions or mentionings of:
-Rape/sexual assault
-Torture
-Violence/gore
-Emotional and physical abuse
-Attempted suicide
-Incest
-Child abuse
Read on your own accord.
But if you decide to brave through this book, a tale of violence, depravity, degeneracy, revenge, death, love and courage awaits you!
Special thanks to @Jaygrfx7 for the cover!!
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❝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?