Beauty in His Vengeance - Part 1

This is a Sara Joe and Dylan Menor AU

Bianca Garcia was born into blood, power, and betrayal.
The daughter of one of New York's most feared mafia families spent her entire life learning one rule:

Never trust a Mendez.

Especially Samuel Mendez.

Cold. Ruthless. Untouchable.

Sam was the kind of man who destroyed lives with a single command and slept peacefully afterward. A man feared by enemies and obeyed by kings. But beneath the designer suits, loaded guns, and cruel reputation was a secret capable of burning two empires to the ground.

Because years ago...

Sam ordered the murder of Bianca's father.

What began as hatred turns into obsession when Bianca is forced into Sam's dangerous world after a violent war erupts between their families. Every stolen touch becomes forbidden. Every kiss becomes betrayal. And every moment they spend together drags them closer to destruction.

But loving Samuel Mendez comes with a price.

And Bianca learns too late that the most dangerous thing about Sam wasn't his enemies...

It was how deeply he loved her.

Because once the truth is revealed, Bianca walks away from the man who owns her heart - leaving Sam to spiral into madness, violence, and grief.

The king of New York falls to his knees for one woman.

And she still leaves him anyway. Bianca leaves New York without telling anyone where she went.

Not even her family knows.

Sam searches for months.

Every city.
Every airport.
Every contact he owns.

Nothing.

The empire he built starts collapsing around him because he stops caring about power. Men betray him. Businesses fail. Blood spills in the streets. But Sam only wants one thing back:

Her.

Every night he listens to old voicemails from Bianca just to hear her laugh.

Every night he drinks himself numb.

And every night he whispers the same thing into the empty side of the bed:

"Come home, baby."

But she never does.