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TO LOVE A MONSTER 030
The first thing Alessio became aware of was warmth.For a few seconds, he didn’t open his eyes.He just lay there.The mattress beneath him was harder than the one at the De Luca estate. The room smelled unfamiliar. Clean sheets. Expensive cologne. The faint scent of coffee drifting in from somewhere outside the door.Then memory returned.The bar.The fight.Rafael.His eyes opened.The hotel room was washed in pale morning light. Beside him, Rafael was still asleep.Alessio couldn’t remember ever seeing that before.Not really.Not like this.Usually Rafael was already dressed when he arrived somewhere. Already composed. Already wearing that expression that made everyone keep their distance.But sleeping, he looked younger.Human.His face was relaxed. The permanent tension Alessio had grown used to was gone. His dark hair had fallen over his forehead during the night. One arm was stretched across the mattress between them.Alessio stared.Last night came back in pieces.The confess
TO LOVE A MONSTER 029
The Montoya dining room was loud in the way only powerful families were loud….not shouting, not chaos, just too many conversations happening at once, all of them important to someone.Rafael sat two seats down from his father, posture straight, jacket buttoned, fork moving when it was supposed to. He nodded at the right moments. He smiled when someone made a joke. He looked like he belonged there.He didn’t feel like he did.The clink of cutlery against plates grated on him. The sound kept pulling him back to the table whenever his thoughts wandered too far which was often.Don Eduardo spoke from the head of the table, voice steady and authoritative. Ports. Routes. Percentages. Names Rafael had heard his entire life.Lucia sat beside him, elegant as ever, her knee brushing his under the table when she shifted. At one point she leaned in and said something about the wine.Rafael nodded, even though he hadn’t heard her.His mind was stuck on Alessio.Not anything dramatic, just the memo
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28The city blurred as Alessio drove, sunlight cutting across his windshield, horns clawing at his ears. His grip on the wheel was tight , knuckles white, every muscle in his arms strung tight like a bow about to snap. He didn’t know where he was going, only that he couldn’t stay. Not in the house with Isabella’s oblivious smile, not with the weight of the news still burning on his skin like a fresh wound.The engagement.Rafael and Lucia.He pressed his foot harder against the accelerator. The car roared as if it too understood his fury, his helplessness.He lied to me.The thought repeated like a drumbeat in his skull. Napoli. The trip Rafael had claimed was all business, that had left Alessio waiting like a fool for his return. He’d believed it. God help him, he had believed every word Rafael said, every half promise whispered into the dark.And all along, Rafael had been meeting her. Smiling at her. Agreeing to this.Alessio’s breath came sharp, ragged. The streets of Palermo twi
TO LOVE A MONSTER 027
The house was silent, but Alessio’s mind was not.Sleep had not come easily, not after the warehouse. Even now, hours later, his body still felt coiled, as if waiting for the sound of a gunshot that never came. He had tried lying in bed beside Isabella, but her steady breathing only sharpened the ache in his chest. So he had left her there, slipped out into the study, and sat in the dark with nothing but the decanter, the faint hum of the city outside, and his own pulse.He thought of what could have happened. What should have happened, maybe.Enzo Romano had been circling him like a wolf. The bodyguard he’d brought had vanished, traitor or coward, it didn’t matter. He had been alone. Outnumbered. And Enzo had tossed that photograph at his feet like a curse. A photograph Rafael had sworn no one would ever see.If Rafael hadn’t come, what then?Would they have beaten him? Shot him in the back of the head, left his body in that warehouse to rot among rust and shadows? Or worse. would t
TO LOVE A MONSTER 026
One week after the dinnerAlessio hadn’t seen Rafael in days.Not really. Not in any way that mattered.They’d shared space, a glance across a lobby, a car ride with others, a distant nod during a meeting. But there had been no words. No lingering looks. No accidental touches. Just ice where fire used to be.And Alessio was pretending that was fine.Pretending he hadn’t noticed the shift in the way people looked at Rafael now, more careful. More respectful. Or maybe more afraid.He’d heard whispers. That Rafael had been sent to handle something in Siracusa, and that he’d done it clean. Quiet. No witnesses.No survivors either.Alessio didn’t want to believe it.He didn’t want to think about the man he used to fall asleep beside now being spoken of like a weapon.Still, when the Eduardo deal came up , a meeting scheduled without much detail, Alessio hadn’t thought twice about going. It was routine. His father’s idea. A quick sit down with Don Eduardo, about port access in Trapani.Noth
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Three days after the weddingAlessio stood outside the Montayo estate with Isabella on his arm, listening to her talk about wine pairings as if the knot in his stomach were something he could ignore.It wasn’t.The doors opened before she even knocked, as if someone had been watching from behind the curtain and the household staff greeted them like it was routine. Like this was already his life.He stepped inside, and it felt like walking into a past he didn’t belong to.Javier Montayo stood at the end of the hall, composed in a dark suit, his expression carved in stone.“Papà,” Isabella said, cheeks flushed with warmth, the perfect daughter. She kissed him on both cheeks, lingered a moment.Alessio extended a hand. “Don Javier .”A firm shake. “Welcome to the family.”He said it like a formality. Like a chess move.Dinner was already being plated.The dining room smelled of roasted lamb, citrus, something herbal Alessio couldn’t place. The table stretched long and gleaming under soft
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The wedding morning arrived like something out of a dream, too soft, too bright, too perfect.The De Luca estate was dressed in white and gold. Rows of orchids lined the garden archway. Musicians tuned their strings behind velvet drapes. Staff moved gracefully , every tray, flower, and fold of line
Last Updated : 2026-03-29TO LOVE A MONSTER 021
The hallway was colder than Nico remembered.He walked fast, past the archways and portraits, past the faint murmur of house staff in the distance, past the echoes of a conversation that had no place in this house. In his chest, something twisted hard, like a wire pulled too tight.Rafael. Alessio.
Last Updated : 2026-03-28TO LOVE A MONSTER 020
The morning sun was shining gently through the curtains of the Montayo villa. Isabella was already dressed, her suitcase by the door, her demeanor calm but determined. She had insisted on returning to the De Luca estate early that day, brushing off the driver’s offer to take her.“No, Rafael will d
Last Updated : 2026-03-27TO LOVE A MONSTER 019
The De Luca estate felt suffocating.Alessio sat at the long dining table, his fingers tapping a restless rhythm against his glass of water as conversations blurred around him. Isabella was radiant, glowing with excitement as she discussed floral arrangements and guest lists with Mrs DeLuca. The ho
Last Updated : 2026-03-26
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