Never just a secret: The Moretti Bloodline

In the world of powerful mafia families and hidden digital empires, nothing is ever truly innocent.

Ayla Moretti was never meant to exist in Alessandro Moretti's world-or so he believed.

Born from a lost love between a feared Italian mafia lord and an Indian woman who chose silence over survival, Ayla grows up in a world where love is unreliable and trust is a luxury she refuses to afford.

She learns early that expectations only lead to disappointment. People leave. People lie. People break promises. So she stops expecting anything-from anyone. Not from family. Not from strangers. Not even from the father she never knew.

But Ayla is not ordinary.

Behind her cold silence and distant eyes lies Nyx, one of the top three hackers in the underground world. Known as a ghost in the system, Nyx is feared, respected, and completely anonymous-no face, no identity, no trace. Only code and chaos.

What no one knows is that Nyx is a seventeen-year-old girl who simply stopped believing in connection long ago.

When fate forces Ayla into the home of the Moretti family, she is surrounded by power, danger, and people who desperately want to be part of her life.

Her family wants to reconnect.

She doesn't.

Not because she hates them.

But because she learned the hardest truth too early:

People always leave.

And this time, she refuses to let herself stay long enough to feel it again.