All The Ways She Didn't Die

𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘳.

Adelina Vitale was three years old when she vanished. Stolen from the safety of her father's empire and buried beneath a new name, a new home, and a mother who called her precious with one hand while hurting her with the other.

Thirteen years later, she's still alive - but survival doesn't mean living.

She's quiet. Too quiet. Gentle in the way broken things are. No one sees the bruises under her sleeves or the way her voice folds in on itself when she speaks. No one, until the wrong man notices - and the right men finally remember who she is.

Six brothers. One farther. A legacy of blood and gold and all the pain that comes with it.

But Adelina is not the same girl they lost. And the house she's returning to doesn't feel like home - not when her body flinches at kindness and she's forgotten how to feel safe in her own skin.

This is not a story about a mafia princess who was saved. This is a story about all the ways she didn't die - and the slow, aching road to becoming someone who wants to live.