His Sin, Her Silence
Grace Hale was raised to be untouchable—the flawless daughter of New York’s most powerful mayor, trained to smile, obey, and survive in silence.
Dean Moretti didn’t believe in untouchable.
He ruled the city from the shadows, a ruthless mafia heir whose world was built on blood, control, and calculated violence.
When he decided Grace would be his wife, it was meant to be a transaction—leverage, protection, necessity.
But Grace wasn’t fragile. And she wasn’t obedient.
The closer Dean came, the more her perfect image fractured, revealing a woman bound by secrets, fear, and a loyalty that was slowly killing her.
Desire ignited where it shouldn’t have. Lines blurred where power once ruled. And obsession turned dangerous when possession began to feel like devotion.
Grace and Dean were pushed into a marriage they didn't completely understand, which had the potential to either free or destroy them.
Because love blossomed in the dark, it demanded everything rather than asking for permission.
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Chapter: Chapter 14DeanGrace 24, Dean 32For an Italian, family was everything. We breathed, survived, and endured our nemesis’s cheap tricks to provide a better tomorrow for our clan.As the leader of the Moretti family, it was my duty to protect them at any cost. No matter what happened in this fucking stupid world, my mission was to uphold my family legacy and protect every individual with a last name of Moretti.However, right now, I'm thinking of an alternative. I truly wished to visit my ancestors in their graves and wake the dead from their never-ending sleep so that they could change this one fucking rule. Maybe I should be the one to do this moral work. As a mobster, I rarely got chances to do good for this society, for humanity, for this universe. This could be my chance to change the deeply rooted traditions of the underworld. Maybe I would be remembered as the mafia boss who did something good for the citizens.The temptation was sinking under my skin, drenching my nerves, and chilling my
Dernière mise à jour: 2026-06-24
Chapter: Chapter 13GraceGrace, 24; Dean, 32And I said yes.This might be the stupidest thing to do, but I said yes to a stranger and his even more stupid marriage proposal.Tonight, I learned a thing about human nature. ‘Humans tend to lean on the side where they receive respect, peace, and comfort.’ In my case, comfort was always present; however, not the first two: respect and peace. These two sounded melodic to my ears, a soft, gentle noise that instantly thrust you into cheeriness. The people I grew up with were less human and more monsters. Expecting any of them from these non-humans would be foolishness, so I refrained from desiring anything from anyone. And that worked in my behalf. Now, I was fucking wishing. Yes, the one girl who liked to keep everything to herself was now expecting a better life, a bright future, respect, and fucking peace. From a man who was basically a stranger.Yeah, this was probably the most brainless stuff I agreed to; No, correction: This was the most brainless thin
Dernière mise à jour: 2026-06-04
Chapter: Chapter 12GraceGrace 24; Dean 32Tonight the air was stuffy. Well, it was nothing new in the Hale mansion. The air was always suffocating in this house. Even if one wished to breathe freely, this house wasn't the right place for a person. Too many secrets, too many sins turned this palace into a polluted estate. Falling for the outside shining exterior of this mansion would be your first mistake, a grave one, because as soon as you met the monsters who were residing here, you would want to run. As fast as you could.However, tonight it was different. Usually, I was good at singling out the unpleasantness of this house (one I learned through living with the monster), but tonight wasn't that night. My instincts were blunt, sleeping somewhere when my gut was sending signals to be on high alert. Or was it nothing? Merely the choker necklace around my neck, the one Jennie delivered to me, stating, 'The mayor wants you to wear it for tonight's dinner.’ The necklace belonged to Mrs. Hale, not my mo
Dernière mise à jour: 2026-06-04
Chapter: Chapter 11DeanGrace 24, Dean 32She left half an hour ago with a sharp and scornful laugh that was referred to me. What happened a few minutes ago was nothing but fucking humiliating.How did I miss this?How did Enzo miss this?I appeared nothing but a pure fool. A fool who was desperate to marry her but didn’t have a clue about her condition. This was bad. Hale was already planning to marry her off to that bastard who was older than him, and now this. I could lose her and I couldn't let this happen.I comprehended she barely had any affection for Senator Peter, as she already was deeply devoted to another man.Well, no need to act astonished at this piece of revelation. I learned this little piece of information the day I first saw her. It wasn't her soft feminine charm that seduced me instantly. Sure, I was bewildered by her at first sight. I experienced a rare phenomenon in my system as my eyes found her in that crowd. She was smiling, and that smile was by far the most genuine thing I h
Dernière mise à jour: 2026-05-24
Chapter: Chapter 10GraceGrace 24, Dean 32How long did it take for a human patient to snap? For how long could a person go through the same loop until they finally do something that was socially unacceptable? If you were wondering what I was thinking, let me be very clear to you: I was thinking murder. Killing everyone who forced me to live this fucking misery where no matter how much you ran, there was no escape. A new sun, a new dawn. People got up, washed away yesterday's anxiety, and happily went on with their day with a cup of coffee in their hand. For me, it was a dream, an indulgence to even contemplate. It would be nice to have one day, just one simple day in my life. Lord, I would even kill a thousand if it were necessary to enjoy those simple twenty-four hours. It would be worth it from every angle.See, when you lived a life, the same one I did under rules, power, and endless duties, it was normal to lose your mind. In twenty-four hours, you couldn't find a second for yourself. Twenty-fo
Dernière mise à jour: 2026-05-24
Chapter: Chapter 9DeanGrace 24, Dean 32I found it.One thing about me was that I was good at finding dust. Hide it under the rug, dig it six feet under, or burn it—I would find it.This time it wasn't just dust. This was a grave, begging to be opened.The folder was heavy, too hefty for a person whose public image was cleaner than the water I had just drunk. Mayor Hale, the honest, righteous politician, had nothing to hide from the public.Bullshit.Papers barely weigh much. Ink didn't either. But secrets? Well, secrets had a way of sinking into our bones, making our hands feel the weight of an infinite amount. It would probably bite if you were not careful.The hundred pages of one crime after another that our dear committed over the last thirty years were honestly fascinating to read. Out of all he did, killing his friend, who once upon a time was also his secretary, was my least favorite. Clearly, it showed how disgraceful this fucking virtuous man was.A man who killed his friend could go to an
Dernière mise à jour: 2026-05-18
Chapter: LyraSeven Years Later Today we celebrated five years of our marriage with our two children. Our daughter Josephine was seven years old while our son Joshua Hall was five years old. It was still hard to believe for me that we came this way. Whenever I thought about the past or the way we met and the way today things turned out to be, it surprised me. I walked the path with him; however, I couldn’t comprehend that this was us now. Nathan told a lie to save me from the crowd. “She is my fiancée” that night in the club seven years ago, which ended us tied in a relationship that was a lie. Our engagement was a pure lie from my side, at least at that time. I was eager to be with him for my own selfishness. He wasn’t the person that I heard from my family’s mouth. He was my saving grace. Every time I fell, he was there holding me, and that was what made me thankful to him. With time I got to feel for him, and, oh
Dernière mise à jour: 2021-10-27
Chapter: NathanTwo years laterToday we said our vows. Everything went smoothly, just as we planned. It was in Spain where the pastor announced us as a man and woman, our friends and family with us as we celebrated our love, they cheered as I kissed my bride. Our two-year-old clapped with full force and smiled at us. Everyone was amused at our much-awaited wedding with the bride.Lyra was fuming. If today we were scheduled to exchange the vows, I swear, next year these people would have celebrated my death anniversary with tears in their eyes.This morning Lyra got the news. The big news, which was a piece of good news without any doubt. I knew she was over the moon with joy. However, the way she was expressing it with rolling eyes, I was positive the moment we locked in our suite room tonight, she would be jumping on me with a knife.“You don’t look happy?” I whispered to her ears as we moved along the
Dernière mise à jour: 2021-10-26
Chapter: Epilogue LyraOne year later,“Are you fucking kidding me?” I shrieked from the bathroom after seeing two pink lines on the fucking pregnancy stick that I was holding in my hand firmly.This had to be a dream. This can’t be true. I closed my eyes and opened again with hope and trust that the two lines would be turned in one somehow magically. But it didn’t.So I took out another stick, praying this time it would be negative. I peed on it, kept my prayer loud while waiting for the result to appear on the stick, and then, BINGO. There were two lines on this one too, positive. I was pregnant.Nathan did that to me. How could he do that to me? I told him to wear a condom so many times, but he didn’t listen to any of my warnings. How many minutes did it take to wear one? But that adamant man didn’t listen, and now here I was holding the one thing that I
Dernière mise à jour: 2021-10-25
Chapter: Lyra“What is this?” Devin frowned as I placed the wedding card of mine and Nathan in front of him on the table.Devin was one of my two friends. I didn’t have many people in my life to relay from childhood; I spent my elementary and most of my high school without friends until Penny came along in the form of an enemy. She was the one who made my life easy and entertaining during those two years of my life.It was nice having someone to rely on, sharing thoughts and happiness with another female who could understand you.Devin and I shared a unique relationship than what I had with Penny. He was my guy friend who treated me with respect, was with me whenever I needed help or a friend in these past years.He was a great guy. I liked him both as a friend and as a human being. He was kind, humble, funny, handsome, a foodie, everything that a woman wanted in her man. He was that guy.But we couldn’t stretch the
Dernière mise à jour: 2021-10-24
Chapter: NathanWhenever I had a feeling about something strongly, it seemed as if I would always be right about that. It first happened when I was in high school. As I went to private school, a place which was filled with some little rotten rich human being’s little miniature, it wasn’t exactly an upright place where I wanted to be. Moral was nowhere to be found in that school, if anything mattered to those people, it was money, power, and status.Lucky for us, Luke and I stood at the top of that game. As a part of the Hall family, the oldest and powerful one in Chicago, those little pieces of shit didn’t dare to look at our eyes, let alone talk to us.Luke had friends. He was always popular among boys and girls where I was a loner, but I enjoyed that. I didn’t need those bullies anywhere near me, all of them, every single one of them, was a criminal in my eyes.As I spent time with my grandfather and mom in the office, I was awar
Dernière mise à jour: 2021-10-22
Chapter: LyraWe officially started dating a week ago after the night in that café. It was nice. Nathan came to my house in the morning, we had our breakfast together before going to work. He dropped me at my restaurant, pressed a kiss on my lips before driving himself to his office. He returned to his office, once again, he was the CEO of the Hall Corporation just like before.We texted one another every free time we got, talked over the phone during our lunch, hence it was harmless to say we ate together. He picked me up from work around 6. It wasn’t my time to go home, but these days I was relying on my manager a little as he confirmed to me everything would be fine even if I wasn’t here.We would go to his condo and spend a cozy night. Watching movies together on his DVD, talking about the time we were separated from one another, cuddling on the sofa, falling asleep in his arms, and having crazy exotic food for dinner. Nathan’s che
Dernière mise à jour: 2021-10-21
Twisted Heart
The tale of three powerful families of Chicago, drama, revenge, love, betrayal turn these people's life up and down.
Brian McCoy
The last thing I need in my life is a woman, I had enough of these fetal female attractions in my 32 years of life. Do I want a one-night stand or hookups? Sure, I gladly welcome any woman into my bed, but a committed relationship, no, thanks. I will pass on this. However, when the little Miss. Simmons walks into my life, her beauty and elegance are making all part of my body wanting more. As everyone says, This woman is the death of any man, but right this me who is suffering her gentle torture.
Inessa:
Brian McCoy is the last person in need in my life, his money and arrogance are the most hated in our society. Women throw themselves on his feet while men loath his success, intertwined with him will damage my "society's sweetheart" reputation. Still, I walk towards the fire like a fool, something about those cold blue eyes pulls me so strongly, and I can't deny him, neither does he.
Will this the start of an epic love or a dreadful fate?
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Chapter: Epilouge2 years later “Dada, we are going to be late. Hurry up.” Mavin, our son, roars. This is his morning custom. He wakes up before everyone in this house and starts screaming for us to start our day. Morning sex is now just a delightful dream for us. Mavin doesn’t allow a minute for Brian and me to have some delicious morning sex. “Mama, you need to be in a hurry, too. Today is the parent’s day of my school.” “We should throw his get-up-and-go thing out of the window,” Brian murmurs. “I’m starting to hate kids again.” “You love him and kids too,” I mumble in sleep. “That’s why you adopted him after proposing to me for marriage. And the little girl Aurora we are adopting tomorrow is also your decision, Mr. McCoy.” “I am going to regret it again. I have a feeling, you know.” “Mama, dada, hurry up.” Mavin thwacks on our bedroom door. Two years ago, on my graduation
Dernière mise à jour: 2021-08-11
Chapter: InessaI can’t believe my eyes for what they are seeing, my ears for what they are hearing, and my mind is having a tough time with all this stuff.He is here in front of me, drinking coffee, saying sorry for all his delinquency, declaring his passion and devotion for me, giving us a chance to make up. He is asking me out on a date.Okay, Mr. Brain, one thing at a time. My depressed heart can’t take all these revelations without experiencing a heart attack.I close my eyes and think about Brian’s monologue, and it demonstrably made me the happiest person. I should have recorded the conversation between us to hear the words out of his mouth again and again. It will be so fun, damn it, I missed it. I don’t perceive why, but seeing Brian pinning me over, or so much despondency for me, the anguish that his eyes hold, I love it.I am officially a dreadful person. I should feel bad for his suffering, but here I am enjoyin
Dernière mise à jour: 2021-08-11
Chapter: BrianInessa, the woman I fell in love with, is standing right in front of me. My wife is still the same. Nothing changed in these three long weeks when we were apart from one another. If anything, she becomes more magnificent; she is shining more than ever; the moonlight shines her glorious long hair luminously. The big, round green eyes draw me instantaneously, the pink full lips that I am dying to stain red with my lips.God, I missed her so much. These three weeks without her was simple torture, which I deserve with no doubt. Honestly, I ask more than that. Maybe a whack or a blow will be less compared to what I did to her.I accept the fact and was ready to leave her alone for life. But in the end, I failed.After reading the letter Inessa left for me, I realized how churlish I was in our marriage with her. And that’s not civil to her or any woman on this globe. No one deserves to be affronted by their better half.But I did th
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Chapter: InessaThree weeks later,Life goes on. I get settled in my apartment with Mavin the night I leave Brian, our marriage, and our house.I wept the first week was the toughest to pass with everything in my mind and the current development as a single parent; it was stifling at a point. Of course, Maria is still here for me, it’s rough.Without having Brian by my side, I understand I indirectly depended on him for many things. The way we experienced our lives for the last two months was incredible.Every morning waking up simultaneously, having sex in the shower, eating breakfast, leaving together for my college and his office as most of the time he gave me a ride, coming home, waiting for him, dinner with marvelous food and giggle, cuddle on the couch with a movie on the background or his work on the laptop, falling on the bed together, having sex, cuddling again before collapsing in the dream in one another’s ar
Dernière mise à jour: 2021-08-08
Chapter: BrianThe sound is growing heavier. I try not to give any attention to that act what I am doing but nope, this fucking noise is just getting rowdy. I settle the cushion over my head to cut off the echo from wherever that is showing up. With my two hands, I put pressure around my ears over the cushion in order to kill the vibration. It still doesn’t work.“Fuck it.” I get up from the bed and sit down in the midst of the bed.Because of my hasty movement, I lose my balance and almost fall down on the bed again. I hold my skull with two of my hands and scream. The thumping noise that feels as if a hammer was striking some metal material is nowhere but in my head.The headache that I am dealing with right now is the clanging noise that wakes me up from my sleep when I finally enjoy nights of sleep after so many sleepless nights.“You are up, big guy?” Robbie’s head peeps through the door.“What
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Chapter: InessaBrian is sitting on the couch, drinking hard liquid with a poker face when I enter the apartment with sleepy Mavin in my arms. I expected a frown, questions, curious looks seeing a baby in my arms, but I got nothing. He doesn’t even look at me when I pass the living room to get in the guest room. He sits on his couch, eyes on the ceiling to floor window, observing the night sky with deep-rooted courtesy.All the way from the hospital to home, my heart was thumping so damn quick that I almost passed away in uneasiness. God, it is still beating fast.In my head I keep arranging my conclusions, forming sentences. How to apply the appropriate words, lines, sentences to break the news to him is all I could think about.I realize it’s already late. I should have finished this for the first time I went to see Molly, but I didn’t know why I held myself back from talking about this with Brian.Particularly, I am ashamed of
Dernière mise à jour: 2021-08-07
Chapter: EpilougeFive Years LaterLaurenIt was Joy’s seventh birthday. The party that Gavin threw for his dear daughter was supposed to be a kid’s birthday party, but after cutting the cake, this blast turned out to be a boardroom meeting. Gavin was sitting with his friends, clients, investors, and business partners whose children were the same age as my daughter or a little older than her. The chocolate cake was lying on the coffee table ahead of these adult men, but they were more interested in talking about the stock market than the party that was going on.I was sitting with a bunch of the mothers from Joy’s school. It was regular mom-concerned talk, which I was getting used to, but surely needed enough time to get into the gossip that they were passing. Every time I sat with them, the only thing I heard them talking about was a teacher who got pregnant before marriage or a parent who was fighting behind closed doors. The mothers called this get-together “about the children” each time they invite
Dernière mise à jour: 2022-08-31
Chapter: GavinI was sitting in my office when Lily informed me that the guest of the day was already waiting for me in our waiting room. On the bright side, Knox accepted my invitation, which I sent to him through a text that Dean and I created last night by wasting thirty minutes of our precious time.“It has to be a minimal text with some unadorned words,” I told Dean when we sat down in my penthouse living room, squeezing the burner phone in our hands.Everything we wrote felt fake until the last text we typed, which somehow sounded formal enough to send to Knox.“Astor Empire’s CEO would like to have a cup of coffee with you tomorrow at his office. Please be in the Astor building at sharp 4.”It was such lame and childish stuff to forward to someone whom you would like to meet. The moment Dean typed this nonsense, the one word that came out of our mouths was the same word Archimedes said upon a significant discovery in the Physis world.“Eureka,” we both said at the same time, reading what was
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Chapter: Gavin“Alright. I understand everything you are saying. But why would Knox go after you? There is no logic behind that. I assumed he felt betrayed when he realized you moved ahead in life while he was serving his sentence for a murder he committed earlier in his life. That wasn’t in your hand. I mean, it was his crime, and the law gave him a suitable punishment, I believe. At present, he is dating your older sister, or more like he is using her to get revenge on you.” I sighed. “My question here is, what revenge? You didn’t do anything wrong with him, right? Then why was he after your life like a mad dog?” I sat on the near couch while Lauren was still standing in the bathroom doorway with her hands together, just like a criminal.“I did play the foul game that night,” she whispered.“How?” I asked. “I don’t see any foul play in your tale.”“Do you know why Knox went to prison?”“Yes, for a murder that he committed.”“Whose murder? Who was that man? Do you know that man?”“No.” I shook my h
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Chapter: LaurenEleven Years AgoThe environment of our house was never healthy. There was always something happening, and most of the time, it was my father who was screaming at the top of his lungs. After breaking up with Knox, I took another job just so I could come home when every one of the members of this house was deep in sleep. Hearing those arguments every single day was so annoying that sometimes I wandered around the town, just to escape from the ear-piercing competition that my parents loved to do at night.My time at Knox was my pathway to abscond from the toxic atmosphere of my home. If I ever sat down and thought about Knox, including the feelings I had for him, I was pretty sure I had nothing for that guy in my heart. You could say, I toyed with him, using him to get away from home for some time. I was aware of what Knox was thinking all the time, but the feeling that I felt for him was after he threatened me to be with him.Of course, I was missing him. I was thinking about him now a
Dernière mise à jour: 2022-08-28
Chapter: LaurenI was in the bathroom treating the wound that Knox and my sister caused me yesterday. Everything else was in my body, which I could easily bury with my clothes, but the one punch that Ashlee gifted me right in my face was giving me hell. I tried makeup, foundation, and concealer, but nothing was working. Instead, the redness was turning into brown shades, which was making it obvious. I had a flight to catch in just a few hours, and here I was making my face presentable.When I first saw Ashlee with Knox, I smelled the fishiness there. In which world would there be such a weird coincidence where your older sister was dating your ex-convicted boyfriend without knowing about each other? I doubt this was a plan that they both plotted together to take revenge on me. They both undoubtedly harbored a bitter grudge against me.I was in the corner of the convenience store when Knox grabbed me by the cap of my hoodie and threw me into the dark alley. Before I could realize anything, a hard slap
Dernière mise à jour: 2022-08-26
Chapter: Gavin“This is the information you asked for.” Jonathan gently slammed the brown file ahead of me.“I asked you for this at least two weeks ago. You are giving me this right now.” I collected the file from the desk, and without opening it, locked it in the drawer. “What happened to your skills? Did it dry out?”“You wish, brother-in-law.” Jonathan smiled as he fell into the chair ahead of us. “I hope you are aware of the fact that I am not a detective or anyone who is with law enforcement. I did my best with what little I had. So be grateful for that.”“Did Sarah know anything about this?”“About what?”“That I called you and asked for help or the favor I asked from you.”It wouldn’t be a great deal if Sarah got the idea that I was reaching out to her husband. Of course, I could ask for help from Jonathan, but if my little sister found out about all this, there would be another drama from her I couldn’t afford at this moment. Sarah lived for drama, which is why she chose Hollywood as her ca
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