"Owned by the Mafia: The Teacher's Fate"

Aurora never believed in monsters.

Not the kind that lurked in the shadows or whispered threats in the dead of night.

But monsters weren't always found in dark alleys.

Sometimes, they wore tailored suits and watched you from a distance, waiting. Sometimes, they pulled strings you didn't even know existed. And sometimes, they decided you were theirs long before you even knew their name.

Aurora didn't see Riccardo Romano when she first arrived in the city, exhausted and desperate for a fresh start.

But he saw her.

The second she walked into that coffee shop, unaware of the ruthless predator in the corner, she had unknowingly sealed her fate. She didn't know that with one phone call, he ensured she got the job at his nephew's school.

She didn't know that the man she would come to fear, hate, and crave had already decided she would belong to him.

Not love. Own.

She would try to run.

She would try to resist him.

But Riccardo Romano didn't let go of what was his.

And Aurora was his.

She just didn't know it yet.