Sold To The Mafia Boss
Eleanor's heart pounded as Armando backed her into a corner, his eyes dark and unrelenting. "Why do you keep resisting me, Eleanor?" he asked, his voice a low threat.
She tried to pull away, but his grip on her wrist tightened. "I won't be your possession, Armando."
A slow, dangerous smirk curled on his lips. "We'll see about that." His hand snaked around her waist, pulling her against him, the warmth of his body making it hard to think straight.
Before she could protest, his mouth claimed hers, fierce and demanding. She wanted to fight, but the intensity of his kiss shattered her defenses. Her hands, instead of pushing him away, gripped his shoulders, drawing him closer.
When he finally pulled back, they were both breathless. "You can lie to yourself all you want," Armando whispered against her ear, his breath sending shivers down her spine, "but you can't deny what's between us."
Eleanor's heart raced with conflicting emotions, knowing he was right-and hating herself for how much she wanted him.
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Eleanor's life spirals out of control when she is sold to Armando, a merciless Mafia boss. Their fiery confrontations spark a powerful and dangerous connection neither can deny. As betrayal and threats close in from every direction, Eleanor must decide if she can trust the man who holds her captive or if their growing bond will destroy them both. In a world of ruthless power struggles, love becomes the ultimate risk.
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Chapter: Chapter 100ELEANOR ~•~ They found Mr. Paulo three weeks later, in a port town two countries over, sitting on a pile of money he thought made him untouchable. I asked to be there when they took him. Armando didn’t want me to come, and we had our first real fight about it, the kind two people have when they’ve stopped being owner and property and started standing on level ground. I won it the same way I’d won every argument with him since the auction. I didn’t beg. I just didn’t back down. So I was standing in the room when they brought Mr. Paulo in. He looked smaller than I remembered. That was the first thing. In my memory he filled whole rooms, the fat greedy king of that auction floor, the man who decided whether my sister lived by how high the bidding climbed. Now he was just a sweating man in a chair with two of Armando’s people behind him, his eyes darting around the room for the most powerful person to bargain with, the way men like him always do. His gaze passed over me twice b
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Chapter: Chapter 99ARMANDO~•~Eleanor didn’t come back to me for four days.She stayed at the doctor’s place those first nights, sleeping in a chair by the kid’s bed, and when Matilda was stable enough that the staff finally sent her home to rest, she came back to the mansion, went straight up to her room, and shut the door. She wasn’t avoiding me, exactly. She’d nod at me in a hallway. She just had nothing she was ready to say, and I’d learned by now not to chase her for it.So I waited. Me. Waiting. Matteo would’ve found that funny.I spent those four days doing the things a man does after a war. Counting what was left. Burying what wasn’t. Sitting alone in the study with the chair I still hadn’t moved.On the fourth morning Dante came down with his bag packed.He set it by the door the same way he’d brought it in. One bag, no ceremony. He found me at the window, where I did most of my standing around these days.“Rafael wants me back,” he said. “And the job’s done. Salvatore’s in the ground, the kid
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Chapter: Chapter 98ELEANOR~•~The next few hours came to me in pieces.I remember Armando carrying Matilda out across the courtyard himself, not handing her to one of his men, carrying her against his chest with her head tucked under his chin and his coat wrapped around her, stepping over bodies like they were furniture. I remember the car. I remember Dante driving fast enough that the world smeared past the windows, and nobody telling him to slow down. I remember holding my sister’s hand in the back seat and counting her breaths out loud, because it felt like if I counted them they couldn’t stop.I don’t remember the drive ending. One second we were moving and the next there were doors and lights and people in scrubs, and a gray-haired man with tired eyes was already waiting on the steps like he’d been standing there an hour.“Don Armando,” he said, and then his eyes went to the bundle in Armando’s arms and everything else dropped off his face. “This is the child. The one from before.”“This is her.”
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Chapter: Chapter 97ARMANDO~•~“Choose,” Salvatore said.I’d walked into a lot of rooms in my life knowing the math was bad. This was the worst of them. Salvatore with a gun dead center on Eleanor’s chest. Two of his men against the far wall with theirs leveled on me. The sick kid slumped on the cot behind her sister. And me alone in the doorway with one weapon and a count that didn’t add up no matter how I ran it.So I didn’t run it. I’d learned that much from Dante in three days. You don’t win the room you’re standing in. You win the room the other man thinks he’s standing in.“You’re quiet, Armando.” Salvatore was enjoying himself. The gun didn’t drift off Eleanor an inch. “That’s not like you. The Armando I hear about would’ve done something loud and stupid by now. But look at you. Standing in a doorway doing arithmetic. You know why?” He smiled. “Because of her. One girl off an auction block and she’s turned you into a man who hesitates. You should thank me. A weakness you don’t know about is the o
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Chapter: Chapter 96ELEANOR~•~One second I had my hand on Armando’s sleeve and the next the whole world went white and loud and I lost him.I don’t know how. A man came at us from the side and Armando turned to put him down, and the crowd of it, the light and the noise and the bodies, just swallowed the space between us. I reached for where he’d been and my hand closed on nothing.I should’ve stayed put. I knew that even while I was moving. But the gate man had said east hall, and east hall meant Matilda, and three weeks of not knowing whether my sister was alive had stripped the careful part of me right out of my body. I ran low along the inside wall, away from the worst of the shooting, toward a doorway with a dim light burning over it.The speakers crackled above me.“Eleanor.” Salvatore’s voice, slow and warm, sliding over the whole compound. “There you are. Come in, bella. Come in out of the cold.”He could see me somehow, and he was letting me come, and that should’ve frozen me where I stood. It
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Chapter: Chapter 95ARMANDO~•~Eleanor walked up to the gate alone and I hated every step of it.That was the plan. She walks, they watch, the gate opens for the prize Salvatore had been waiting on, and I come through two steps behind her in the dark with Marco while Dante took the back with the others. Two ways in. One girl to grab. Everybody out before Salvatore worked out he’d been played.It looked good on Dante’s map. On that map everything looked good.But this wasn’t the map. This was Eleanor in a thin coat crossing forty feet of open gravel toward a man who’d already used her once, and me crouched in the tree line with my pulse going hard, telling myself she was bait and not letting myself finish the thought about what bait is actually for.A floodlight snapped on and caught her. She froze in it. I watched her shoulders climb up toward her ears and then come down again, slow, like she was forcing herself steady.“Eleanor.” A voice from the gatehouse. One of Salvatore’s men, not the man himself.
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The CEO's Untamed Contract Bride
Vivienne Hartley had already lost her marriage, her trust, and her illusion of stability. All she had left was her career, the one place she could stand on her own feet. But fate wasn’t finished testing her. When Langford Global swallows her agency whole, she finds herself standing in front of Damon Langford, the one man she never hoped to see again.
Ruthless, Cold, and Devastatingly powerful, Damon doesn’t forgive, and he certainly doesn’t forget. Years ago, he cut her down with nothing more than a smirk and a few cruel words that had almost ended her career.
But Damon has a secret. His father’s will left him with everything except the one condition he cannot ignore. Unless he marries, he will never be able to access his inheritance. For a man who doesn’t believe in love, marriage was never supposed to matter, not until Vivienne came along.
Her defiance stirs something inside him that he can’t control. To Damon, Vivienne isn’t just an employee, she’s the perfect solution. The key to his inheritance.
Vivienne swore she’d never bow to him, that never let a man like Damon Langford hold her heart or her freedom. But Damon is a man who doesn’t believe in limits, and the closer she fights him, the deeper she falls into his game.
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Chapter: Like Daddy DidVIVIENNE~•~"Mommy!"Liam came barreling down the hall the second I got the door open, and he hit my legs and grabbed on with both arms, and for a minute I just stood there holding onto my kid and trying to remember how to breathe."Did you win? Did you talk to the judge?" He tipped his head all the way back to look up at me. "Marco let me have two ice creams and said I couldn't come, but I drew you a picture. You wanna see it?"I got down on my knees right there on the floor and took his face in both hands."Listen to me, baby. You're staying right here. With me. Nobody is taking you anywhere, not ever, you hear me? It's done. It's over.""For real real?""For real real. I promise you."He threw both arms around my neck and squeezed so hard it hurt, and over the top of his head I saw Damon standing in the kitchen doorway, watching the two of us. The second my eyes hit his, he looked away."Liam, go wash up," Damon said. "Dinner's almost ready.""Mommy says nobody's taking me!" Liam
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Chapter: The Same CoinVIVIENNE~•~Elena sat back down beside me and folded her hands on the table like she hadn't just lit her whole life on fire in front of a judge, and I couldn't stop shaking.She'd done that for me. For Liam. She'd stood up in open court and put every bit of it on her own back so the word "tampering" would never touch Damon or me, and the worst part, the part I couldn't breathe around, was that I'd helped her hold those records. I'd kept the copy. I was every bit as in it as she was, and she'd just made sure the whole world would never know."Counsel, both of you sit." Okafor took her glasses off and rubbed the bridge of her nose. "I've heard enough for one morning."The whole room went still."Mr. Ackerman, your motion to strike is granted. The evaluation's gone. I can't trust a report that came out of an improper contact, and I won't pretend otherwise." She set the glasses back down. "But before your client gets comfortable, let me say what I watched happen on that stand."William s
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Chapter: Six YearsELENA~•~I'd spent my whole career learning not to react in a room like this, and I needed every bit of that training now, because Ackerman had just laid my sin out on the record and the only thing holding me up was the habit of a still face.Every head in the courtroom had turned to me. I could feel them. The judge, waiting. William, looking pleased with himself for the first time all morning. Ackerman, easing back into his chair.Damon wasn't looking at me, though. He'd turned in his seat, and he was looking at his wife.That was the thing that decided it. Not the motion, not the records, not fifteen years of work about to burn in front of a judge who'd always liked me. It was the question I could watch forming on Damon's face while he stared at Vivienne, and the fact that I knew exactly what it was.He was wondering if she'd known. And the second he decided she had, that was the end of them, the one real thing either of them had managed to make out of this whole ugly arrangement.
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Chapter: Exhibit FourteenVIVIENNE~•~I had my hands folded on the table so nobody could see them shaking, and I kept my eyes on the judge, and I worked at looking like a woman whose whole life wasn't sitting on a piece of paper she'd helped poison."…found the child to be safe, healthy, and strongly attached to both adults in the home." Elena read it straight off Hale's report and let the words sit a second. "Those are the evaluator's own words, Your Honor. Not mine."Judge Okafor turned a page, reading along. "I've got the report, counsel. Been through it twice.""Then the court has seen her recommendation. The boy stays right where he is, with his mother and Mr. Langford.""I've seen it." Okafor looked over her glasses at the other table. "Mr. Ackerman, I'll be straight with you, this is about as clean a report as I get in this room. What've you got?"For one second I let myself believe it. We were so close I could taste it. The judge was nodding, the report was good, Liam was home with Marco building anot
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Chapter: Don’t Make Me GoVIVIENNE~•~"No," Liam said.I let out a breath I'd been holding so long my chest hurt.But he wasn't done. He rubbed his nose with the back of his hand and kept looking at Hale, crouched there in front of him."Nobody here scares me," he said. "But I get scared sometimes.""Of what, sweetheart?" Hale asked, real gentle."That somebody's gonna make me go away." He said it small and sleepy. "Back to the old house. I don't like the old house.""Why would somebody do that, honey?""'Cause I heard Mommy on the phone one time. She was crying." He picked at the collar of his pajamas. "And a man came to the door once and Mommy got real scared and made me hide. I'm not s'posed to know. But I know somebody wants to take me away from here."My whole body went cold. I had no idea he'd heard any of that. No idea he'd been carrying it around inside him this whole time, all by himself."Liam," I started, and then I had nothing to put after his name.He looked over at me, his eyes filling up fast.
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Chapter: Just One QuestionVIVIENNE~•~"I'm not waking him." My voice was shaking and I let it shake. "He's sick, he's finally asleep, and you are not getting near my son tonight.""Mrs. Langford." Hale sounded bored. "You can wake him yourself, nice and gentle, or I write down that the mother wouldn't let the child be seen. Think hard about how that reads to a judge in the morning.""Then write it!" It came out too loud and I didn't care. "Write that I wouldn't let a stranger pull my sick kid out of bed at nine at night. Let's see how that one reads for you.""Dolores, please." Elena's voice was tight, the lawyer in her trying to pull it back from the edge. "It's late, everyone's worn out. We can do the visit in the morning, the way the order says, after we all get some sleep. Nobody's helping their case tonight.""I decide when the visit happens, counselor. Not you.""You came a day early, at night, with no notice." Damon's voice was flat and cold. "That's not how an assessment works and you know it. I can h
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Rejected And Pregnant, Marked By Two Alphas
Elowen Gray has spent her entire life at the bottom of Blackthorn Pack — sleeping in a storage room, eating on permission, surviving on the hope that the man she loved in secret was going to save her. When Dorian Cross, the future Alpha, rejects her publicly at the mating ceremony and she discovers the same night that she is pregnant, Elowen makes the only decision she has ever made entirely for herself. She runs.
Fate does not take her somewhere safe. It takes her straight into the territory of Kael Dravon, the most feared Alpha in the region, a man built from cold intelligence and controlled violence who marks her on the spot and tells her she belongs to him now. She has no pack, no protection, and two lives growing inside her.
Elowen must navigate a pack she doesn’t understand, a man she cannot read, an enemy from her past who is coming for what she carries, and the slow and devastating discovery that the blood running through her veins is not what she was told it was.
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Chapter: Chapter 7ELOWEN~•~The room they gave me had a window.That was the first thing I noticed when the female wolf assigned to show me around pushed the door open and stepped aside to let me through. A window with actual curtains, heavy dark fabric that pooled slightly at the floor, and through the glass a view of the pack grounds. I stood in the doorway and looked at it for longer than I should have before I remembered myself and walked in.The room was not large but it had a proper bed with a mattress that did not feel like sleeping on compressed disappointment. There was also a dresser with a mirror above it that was not cracked, as well as a small table with two chairs. The door on the left wall led to a bathroom, my own bathroom. I set my bag down on the floor next to the bed and looked around more.“Meals are in the main hall at seven, noon, and six,” the wolf said from the doorway. Her name was something I had already forgotten because I had been too busy cataloguing the layout of the co
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Chapter: Chapter 6KAEL~•~She was pregnant.I knew it the moment she walked through those doors. You didn’t spend years leading a pack without developing my kind of awareness that picked up on things instantly. She had hidden it well. A woman who could stand in front of me terrified, exhausted, and still thinking clearly enough to manage what she revealed and what she didn’t, that was not nothing.Caden was at my door within twenty minutes of her being escorted to her room. I heard him knock twice before he came in, which was more courtesy than he usually bothered with, which meant he had something to say that he wanted me to be in a receptive mood for before he said it.“Sit down,” I said, before he could open his mouth.He sat. Caden was my Beta and had been for six years, which meant he knew better than most when I was in a mood to be questioned and when I wasn’t. He looked at me across the desk with that careful expression he wore when he was trying to assess which version of me he was dealing w
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Chapter: Chapter 5ELOWEN~•~“Move it!”That was all I had been hearing since they pulled me out of that room. The one directly behind me said it every time my feet slowed down, which was often, because I was exhausted and the corridors of this pack house seemed to go on forever.I kept moving.The pack house was nothing like what I had grown up in. Everything about it was larger. The walls were dark stone, the floors smooth and cold under my feet, the lighting dim enough that the far ends of every corridor disappeared into shadow.We stopped at the end of a corridor that opened into a wide landing, and I saw the doors. Two of them, floor to ceiling, dark wood with iron fittings that looked like they had been there for a very long time.Two of the guards stepped forward and took a door each, pulling them open in unison, then the one behind me put a hand on my shoulder and walked me forward.I stepped across the threshold and the atmosphere changed immediately.It felt sharp, and every instinct I had,
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Chapter: Chapter 4ELOWEN~•~I didn’t reach for the rope again.Some deep part of me decided it wasn’t going to end like this, not on the floor of a storage room in the dark, not because of Dorian Cross and a pack that had never once treated me like I was worth keeping.I stayed on the floor for a long time with my hand pressed flat against my stomach and the rope still sitting on the shelf beside me, close enough to reach but suddenly very far away.I tried telling myself I wasn’t sure because the nausea could be anything. It could be the fact that I hadn’t eaten properly in two days. It could be the crying, it could be stress, which I had enough of to last several lifetimes. I went through every other explanation I could find, but none of it made sense.By the time the last sounds of the ceremony had faded from the other end of the pack house and the corridors had gone properly quiet, I had run out of things to test.I was pregnant with Dorian’s child and there was no way I was staying in this pack.
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Chapter: Chapter 3ELOWEN~•~Jade Mercer saw me before I even made it through the door.She was standing just inside the entrance with Talia at her shoulder, both of them dressed like they had spent the entire day preparing, which they probably had. Jade’s eyes landed on me and that familiar smile came up, the one that never meant anything good.“No.” She said it like she was correcting a mistake. “What are you doing here?”I kept walking.“Hey.” She stepped sideways, putting herself in my path. “I’m talking to you. The ceremony hasn’t started yet, which means the hall still needs attending to. You can come back in after we’re done and start on the cleanup.”Talia laughed behind her hand.Every other version of tonight, every other version of me, would have dropped my eyes and found a way around her. Would have swallowed it down and moved to a corner and made myself small enough that she lost interest.But tonight was going to be different.I stopped walking and I looked at her directly.“Move,” I said
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Chapter: Chapter 2ELOWEN~•~The cracked mirror on my wall didn't give me much to work with, but I made do.I had a stub of eyeliner worn down to almost nothing and a lip tint I had been rationing for weeks, saving it for an occasion important enough to justify using the last of it. Tonight was that occasion. I leaned close to the mirror, careful with my hand, trying to make the little I had go as far as it could.The dress I laid out on the cot was the best one I owned, which wasn't saying much. It was a simple fitted thing in a deep burgundy that I had found folded at the bottom of my bag from what felt like another lifetime. By the standards of what the other girls in the pack would be wearing tonight it was nothing, and I knew that, but Dorian had never once looked at me like what I was wearing mattered. He had seen me in worse. He had seen me in the aftermath of bad days with puffy eyes and dirty clothes and he had still pulled me close, still said my name like it meant something, and that had al
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