SECOND BOOK OF THE VELVET & VOWS SERIES 🩶⛓️
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Vincenzo Russo
The most feared man in the country-the ruthless Don of the Las Vegas Mafia.
He attends a wedding with one goal: to provoke the other families and remind them who holds power.
What he doesn't expect... is her.
Liliana Aurora Moretti.
Milan's mafia princess. Raised in luxury, born into danger.
After her uncle's death, her family returns to New York-where Liliana finds herself at Vogue Fashion College and rises into the spotlight as a supermodel.
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Preview...
I was steadying my hands when the door suddenly shot open.
Vincenzo stepped inside and locked the door behind him with a quiet click that sounded final.
"This is the women's bathroom," I snapped.
He shrugged, walking closer. "I don't give a shit."
I tried to push past him, but he stepped in front of me, blocking the path like a wall that had learned how to breathe.
"I don't like your fucking attitude," he said, irritation sharpening his voice.
"What are you going to do about it?" I challenged, refusing to blink.
He didn't answer. He just moved.
One step. Then another. Slow, predatory patience in every shift of his weight, until my back hit the wall behind me.
He lowered himself slightly, eyes locking onto mine again, his voice dropping to a whisper.
"You want danger, principessa?" he murmured.
"Keep talking to me like that... and I'll make sure you choke on the consequences you're begging for."
A cold wave washed through me, sharper than fear, deeper than anger. My breath locked again, pulse hammering in my ears as his smirk returned, thin and satisfied.
He didn't touch me.
He didn't need to.
He already had.
#1 lasvegas 01/25/2026
They performed her last rites.
While she was still alive.
Akshara Maheshwari was erased from her own family before she could even understand what she had done wrong. Abandoned, forgotten, and declared dead, she disappeared from the world that once called her blood.
Years later, she returns - not as a broken child begging for answers, but as AK - a name the world admires, fears, and follows.
She doesn't come back for forgiveness.
She doesn't ask for love.
And she doesn't reveal herself easily.
Because some wounds don't need apologies -
they need truth, power, and reckoning.
As the Maheshwaris celebrate, lie, and protect their secrets, the past claws its way back into the present.
A past involving betrayal, silence, a sold child, and a savior who changed her fate.
What happens when a family realizes the daughter they buried...
is the woman who now controls their empire?
And what if revenge isn't her goal -
but taking back what was always hers?
A story of abandonment, survival, silent revenge, and a girl who learned to smile while planning her return.
Read to find out:
Will the truth destroy them...
or will Akshara destroy the truth first?