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Author: Vivah_writes
last update publish date: 2026-07-01 23:00:08

Isabella woke slowly.

For a few brief seconds, her mind remained hazy, suspended somewhere between exhaustion and reality.

The soft mattress beneath her felt unfamiliar.

Too soft.

Too luxurious.

And the scent in the air...

Fresh linen.

Vanilla.

Wood polish.

Not home.

Her eyes fluttered open.

The first thing she saw was the enormous chandelier hanging above her.

Then came the realization.

The Valenti mansion.

Her breath caught slightly.

Memories from the previous night crashed into her all at on
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  • The Mafia's Princess   Forty

    Isabella woke slowly.For a few brief seconds, her mind remained hazy, suspended somewhere between exhaustion and reality.The soft mattress beneath her felt unfamiliar.Too soft.Too luxurious.And the scent in the air...Fresh linen.Vanilla.Wood polish.Not home.Her eyes fluttered open.The first thing she saw was the enormous chandelier hanging above her.Then came the realization.The Valenti mansion.Her breath caught slightly.Memories from the previous night crashed into her all at once.The party.The humiliation.The laughter.Lorenzo walking in.The gunshot.Alessandro.The argument outside the study.And finally, Lorenzo's words.“You were trapped the moment you walked into my life.”Isabella closed her eyes briefly.Her chest tightened painfully.Nothing about her life felt real anymore.Slowly, she pushed herself upright against the massive bed, looking around the room properly for the first time.The guest bedroom was breathtaking.Fresh flowers sat on the bedside tab

  • The Mafia's Princess   Thirty Nine

    Isabella stood frozen outside the room, her hand still hovering near the door handle, her breathing uneven after everything she had just heard.Every word.Every accusation.Every cruel truth.It all rang violently inside her head.“She belongs to me.”The words made her chest tighten painfully.Inside the study, silence settled again.But outside?A storm brewed between two broken people.Alessandro lifted his head slowly after colliding into her.For a moment…Neither of them spoke.They simply stared at each other.And what existed between them now was no longer romance.No longer attraction.No longer even confusion.It was wreckage.Pure wreckage.Alessandro's expression darkened the second he realized she had heard everything.Isabella could see it instantly.The humiliation.The anger.The resentment.His pride had been shattered tonight.Not just by Lorenzo.But by her too.And somehow that made him hate her even more.Isabella swallowed hard, her voice trembling slightly when

  • The Mafia's Princess   Thirty Eight

    The moment the study door closed behind Isabella…The room changed.The tension that had been restrained moments ago now rose freely between father and son like smoke before a fire.Don Lorenzo stood unmoving behind his desk, his expression cold and unreadable.Alessandro remained near the center of the room, fists clenched tightly at his sides.His chest rose and fell unevenly.Anger.Humiliation.Confusion.All of it burned inside him at once.For the first time in a long time…He wasn’t afraid enough to stay silent.His eyes locked onto his father.And finally he spoke.“Why?”Don Lorenzo's gaze didn’t shift.“Be specific.”Alessandro let out a bitter laugh.“You slept with my girlfriend.”The accusation rang sharply through the room.Still Lorenzo showed no reaction.If anything, his calmness only made Nico angrier.“That’s low,” Alessandro spat. “Even for you.”Don Lorenzo slowly placed the glass in his hand onto the desk.The soft clink echoed loudly in the silence.“You’re in n

  • The Mafia's Princess   Thirty Seven

    The atmosphere in Don Lorenzo's study had barely settled.The air still carried the weight of everything that had happened. The party, the humiliation, the rescue, the unspoken emotions that neither of them had fully processed.Isabella sat across from him.She felt… safe.And yet, not.Because every word Lorenzo spoke reminded her of one thing...Her life was no longer simple.It could never be again.Don Lorenzo stood by the window, his back partially turned to her, his gaze fixed on the darkness outside.But his mind?It was far from calm.It was calculating.Always calculating.Finally, he spoke.“Your mother.”Isabella's head lifted immediately.Her heart skipped.“My… mother?” she repeated softly.Lorenzo turned to face her now, his expression serious, more serious than she had ever seen it.“We need to move her.”The words hit instantly.Hard.Isabella blinked.“What…?”“Tomorrow morning,” he continued, his tone firm, leaving no room for negotiation. “She cannot stay where she

  • The Mafia's Princess   Thirty Six

    Valeria Rossi didn’t bother taking off her heels as she stepped into the grand halls of the Rossi mansion.The marble floors echoed beneath her hurried steps, her pulse still racing, not from fear, but from adrenaline.From satisfaction.From the thrilling realization that everything had just changed.Her lips curved slightly as she walked deeper into the house, her mind replaying the scene over and over again.Don Lorenzo walking in.The fear.The silence.The way he had wrapped Isabella in his jacket.The way he had carried her out.Like she belonged to him.Like nothing, and no one else mattered.Valeria exhaled slowly.“Yes…” she whispered under her breath.“That’s her.”There was no doubt anymore.No confusion.No second-guessing.Isabella Lombardi was the girl.The one from that night.The one Martin had spoken about.The one who had begged for a life, and was granted it.And more importantly, the one who had somehow gotten Don Lorenzo Valenti's attention.Her smile deepened.He

  • The Mafia's Princess   Thirty Five

    The drive to the Valenti Mansion had passed in near silence.Not the suffocating kind from before.Not the tense, dangerous quiet that filled the space between them in the car earlier.This one was… different.Isabella sat beside Don Lorenzo, wrapped in his jacket, her fingers still clutching the fabric as if letting go would somehow unravel everything holding her together.Her body still trembled.Her mind hadn’t stopped racing.Not for a second.The humiliation.The laughter.The video.Alessandro.Valeria.And then…Him.The way he walked in.The way everything changed.The way he carried her out like nothing else in the world mattered.Isabella swallowed softly, her eyes drifting briefly toward him.Lorenzo's expression remained unreadable.Focused.Controlled.But there was something beneath it.Something she couldn’t quite name.Something that unsettled her just as much as it steadied her.When the car finally rolled through the grand gates of the Valenti Mansion, Isabella's bre

  • The Mafia's Princess   Fourteen

    The storm followed him home.Rain lashed against the windows of the Valenti mansion, thunder rolling across the sky as the gates opened and the sleek black car pulled in.Don Lorenzo Valenti stepped out without hesitation.Unaffected.Untouched.The storm outside had nothing on the one brewing insi

  • The Mafia's Princess   Twelve

    The party was still alive.Music pounded through the mansion, laughter spilling into every corner, glasses clinking as the night stretched deeper into indulgence.But Alessandro Valenti wasn’t enjoying any of it.His eyes scanned the crowd again.And again.And again.“Isabella?”Nothing.No sign o

  • The Mafia's Princess   Eleven

    The engine of the car roared back to life.And within seconds, they were gone.Leaving behind nothing but rain, and a man who had just witnessed the true meaning of crossing the wrong person.Inside the car, silence filled the space.Heavy.Tense.Isabella sat stiffly, Lorenzo's jacket wrapped tigh

  • The Mafia's Princess   Nine

    Isabella stepped out of the mansion, the cool night air hitting her skin instantly.She wrapped her arms around herself, her heels clicking softly as she moved further away from the noise, the lights, the chaos.Her breathing slowly steadied.But her heart...That was another story.Tears burned be

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