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At sixteen, she saved a dying boy outside her fatherās estate. She didnāt know he was the heir to the Italian mafia. She didnāt know her own father had ordered his torture. She only knew he was bleeding. She stayed with him for fourteen hours. Then he vanished. Ten years later, sheās running againāhunted, alone, desperate. She stumbles into a church for sanctuary⦠and hides in a dressing room. Then she sees him. The boy she saved. Now a ruthless mafia king. And his men, surrounding her instantly, hands on guns, eyes blazing with fury. But he doesnāt flinch. Heās already smilingāknowing. āStand down,ā he says, calm and commanding. His eyes lock on hers, piercing. āJust tell me one thing,ā he murmurs. āDo you still desire me the way you did back then?ā The room goes silent. āBecause if you do,ā he adds, voice dangerous, āIāll cancel this wedding right now⦠and make you my bride.ā With nowhere left to run, she says yes. She thinks heās marrying her out of gratitude. Sheās wrong. He marries her for revenge. Her father didnāt just hurt himāhe destroyed his childhood. And what better way to repay that pain than to trap the enemyās daughter under his roof? On the altar, he kisses her slowly, his lips tasting of peachāthe one thing sheās deathly allergic to. Minutes later, sheās collapsing at the altar. Through the chaosā He watches. Satisfied. On their wedding night, he declared, āMy first love, Violet, was my first kiss⦠she was supposed to be my bride, but I left her at the altar today and married you insteadānot because I hate her, but because I want you to suffer in my palm. Their marriage stays a battlefield for three long weeksāuntil fate shatters it all: Elena is kidnapped on the third week. When sheās rescued, she discovers sheās pregnant. She swears she was never touched. He doesnāt believe her. He convinces himself the child was conceived during her captivityāthat it belongs to one of the men who took her. Twenty-one DNA tests. None can confirm heās the father. He rejects her. Rejects the baby. Treats both like stains he canāt wash away. Yet when Violet becomes pregnantāwith another manās childāhe guards her like she carries his heir. Attends every appointment. Shields her from stress. And when Violet accuses her of theft, he has her thrown into a freezing roomādespite her being eight months pregnant and close to giving birth. She pounds on the door, screaming that the baby is coming. He doesnāt listen. Hours later, he unlocks the door. He nudges her with his shoe. Her body rolls across the icy floor. And he sees it. A dark, frozen pool of blood beneath her and a crumpled medical report clutched in her stiff fingers. High-risk pregnancy at eight monthsāexposure to extreme cold could induce fetal demise. For the first timeā He breaks. āGet the ambulance! Now!ā He carries her himself, panic tearing through him, her blood staining his hands. But when he reaches the hospital⦠sheās gone. Snatched from him in a single, merciless moment. His world shatters. āNo one takes my wife from me.ā For the first time in his life, the ruthless mafia king falls to his kneesā Consumed by rage, grief, and the horrifying truth: The woman he destroyed⦠may be the only one he was never meant to lose.