CAUTION- MATURE AND LARGE AGE GAP
🖤 Beneath the Shadows
In this city, monsters don't hide under beds -
they pour you wine, wear tailored suits, and know your name before you speak it.
Victor Moretti is one of them.
At 33, he's the most powerful man in the underworld - the kind of man who doesn't need to lift a finger to ruin you. He rules with a cold smile, a whisper, and a blood-soaked crown.
And then there's me.
Sarah. Eighteen.
Too young to understand the rules, too stubborn to obey them.
Kind, quiet... the kind of girl no one sees coming.
He thinks I'm innocent.
I think he's saving me.
We're both wrong.
Because in Victor's world, nothing is what it seems -
not love,
not loyalty,
and definitely not me.
They warned me about the dark.
No one warned him I'd walk straight into it.
Love doesn't bloom here.
It bleeds.
Read at your own risk. The shadows don't just hide secrets... they keep score.
3 Kapitel Abgeschlossene Geschichte Erwachseneninhalt
3 Kapitel
Abgeschlossene Geschichte
Erwachseneninhalt
My life before was just like my name, Haven. Everything was peaceful, everything went my way, and I had everything that I needed. If I wanted something, I'd have it in a snap. I didn't need to move, make an effort, or work for it. I just needed my daddy's tiny rectangular card that might look insignificant but carried the world on its little sharp edges.
Money might not equate to happiness, but it certainly made life easier for me. And yet a year later, from heaven I was dropped into my version of hell.
Now, I'm standing in the aisle of a grocery store, wondering if I should just buy another batch of instant noodles because I don't want to waste money-money that I barely have to begin with-on food that will just end up being barely edible.
Was that the hell I'm talking about? No.
It's working unbelievably long hours just to get paid basically nothing, and wanting to buy food to eat because I haven't had one meal for the day, only to end up having a gun on my head. Oh, and before I forget-kidnapped! At a grocery store!
My version of hell? It's the tattooed, hot-headed Italian and head of a secret criminal society, Allessio Cascella.
Written by: MsButterfly
Cover by: Yrra Book Cover