Eyes On Me | 18+ |

"Well, you didn't expect me to sleep on the floor, now did you?" she scoffed.

His eyes darkened.

Her throat went dry.

.˳·˖✶𓆩𓁺𓆪✶˖·˳.

Noticed by everyone. Trusted by no one. Loved by none.

For Maria Carasso, being the first-born daughter of the ruthless Madre Beatrice is a deadly game of chess. In a high-society world where every smile hides a knife and loyalty is always borrowed, she is expected to either conquer or completely self-destruct.

Then comes Marcello Salvatore.

He is dangerous, magnetic, and deeply entwined with the American Mafia, a man whose silence is more threatening than most men's violence. What begins as a fragile, calculated alliance slowly spirals into a forbidden attraction Maria was never meant to feel.

Then there's Matteo Salvatore.

Where Marcello is winter, Matteo is wildfire. Charming, reckless, and impossible to ignore, he laughs too easily, says too much, and keeps appearing exactly when Maria needs someone in her corner. In a family where trust is a liability, he becomes the one person she never expected to lean on.

But empires are not built on love. They're built on blood.

When the first body drops, every finger points to Marcello. Worse yet, Maria knows exactly what he is capable of... and they could all be right.

Now trapped between two Salvatore men, a mother who raised her to be a weapon, and a war that reaches far beyond New York, Maria must decide which is deadlier: betraying the family that owns her, or trusting the one that never will.