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บททั้งหมดของ Bound by Vows and Vendetta: บทที่ 1 - บทที่ 10

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Chapter 1

Chapter 1 — Chains In Silk~ARIA~"Whatever you do, Aria... don’t stop running. Don’t look back."The words pounded in Aria Emilia Valente’s head like gunshots.Her heels echoed against the polished marble floors of the Valente estate as she flew past gilded mirrors and ancestral portraits that seemed to watch her flee. Her chest burned. Her breath came in frantic gasps. Behind her, the shouts grew louder—guards, her father’s men, hounds in human skin.Six minutes. That’s all she had before the gates were sealed. Before the men with dead eyes dragged her back and reminded her who truly owned her life.Freedom was just through the east corridor. Past the vineyard. Through the woods. And into the arms of a waiting car driven by a man whose loyalty had been bought with more than money—desperation.But then—A shadow moved. A hand slammed into her side, throwing her against the corridor wall with such force it knocked the air out of her lungs."Where the hell do you think you're going, pr
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Chapter 2

Chapter 2 — A Vow Written in Blood~ARIA~“Do you, Aria Emilia Valente, take Lorenzo De Rossi to be your lawfully wedded husband…”The priest’s voice echoed through the cathedral like a death knell.“To have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse…”Each word was a chisel carving into my soul.“For richer, for poorer…”This wasn’t a wedding—it was a funeral in disguise. And I was the corpse in silk.“In sickness and in health, until death do you part?”Death. Oh, how that word hung heavy in the air—like a prophecy rather than a vow.I stood frozen at the altar, my mouth dry, my heart a frantic drumbeat beneath my ribs. The lights overhead felt like interrogation lamps, and the room swam in slow motion—faces blurred, whispers distant, all except the one man standing beside me.Lorenzo De Rossi.Draped in shadows, dressed in tailored black that hugged him like a second skin. Cold. Unmoving. Watching me with those arctic eyes that didn’t just see—but dissected.My lips
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Chapter 3

Chapter 3 — Inheritance of Chains~ARIA~Blood.Disinfectants.The nauseating smell of the two mixing had me snapping my eyes open as a scream tore from my throat. The memories came back in an instant. The warm splash, the driver's skull snapping back.Another scream escaped my throat as I tried to get on my feet.Where was I?A firm hand clasped around me, trying to push me back down. "It's fine. You're fine," a soft voice soothed, but it did nothing to stop the fear threatening to suffocate me.I gasped, frantically glancing around, barely registering the hospital walls. A nurse with a kind face leaned over me, repeating the words she had spoken seconds before, "You are fine now. You were in an accident."I didn't need her to tell me. I remembered everything vividly. It played out in my head like it was happening again—the car, the gunfire, the crash. Lorenzo.Lorenzo.I tried to sit up, ripping at the wires and tubes hooked to my body. The universe, in a twisted sense of humor, had
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Chapter 4

Chapter 4 — Escape~ARIA~Everything seemed to blur after the moment I tossed the drugs into my mouth, defying him. A gunshot echoed, and I braced myself for the impact. For the pain. But instead, the nurse collapsed. The sound of her body hitting the ground was deafening in the silence that followed.I turned my head in disbelief, my breath catching in my throat. The scream came out before I could hold it back, ripping through the air as I dropped to my knees beside her. The blood... it was everywhere. Thick, warm, and spreading too fast."No, no, no! Please, wake up. Please..." My voice cracked, breaking under the weight of the horror that gripped me. My hands shook as I reached for her, but her eyes—wide open, frozen in terror—were already empty.Then, without warning, I was yanked back. His grip was iron, merciless, and I barely registered being thrown over his shoulder like I was nothing. My fists pounded against his back as I screamed for someone—anyone—to stop him.Why was no o
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Chapter 5

Chapter 5 — The Cost of Defiance~LORENZO~"F**k!" I hissed, yanking the syringe from my leg. The metal snapped halfway, the needle’s tip still lodged under my skin. The pain was nothing. Inconvenient. Insignificant. What consumed me was the image of Aria—barefoot, wild-eyed—disappearing into the night like a feral animal.My driver instinctively changed lanes, but I barked the order, cold and cutting."Don’t. Let. Her. Run."He obeyed like a ghost obeys a curse. Stopped the car without a question, waiting for my next command. They all knew better than to test me."Take me home."My voice was like a storm contained behind glass.He turned the car around, and I didn’t speak again.My hand reached into my pocket, pulling out my blade. Without hesitation, I tore through the fabric of my trousers and sliced into my own flesh. A clean cut. Surgical. The embedded shard of the needle was small, but the wound needed tending. Still, I had no time for medics. I grit my teeth and pushed, my glov
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Chapter 6

Chapter 6 — Trigger and Tears~ARIA~My eyes flew open, and I bolted upright in bed with a scream. "Get away from me!" But there was no one there. The sheets were drenched in sweat. My breathing came in short, panicked gasps as if the air around me had thickened.For one brief second, I thought it might’ve been a nightmare. But then my body reminded me.The pain between my legs flared—raw, throbbing, unbearable. No dream could leave a wound like that. The flashbacks came with merciless precision—the sickening sound of the crowd cheering, the cold steel collar, the gavel falling.And then... him. Lorenzo.I curled in on myself, pulling the blanket tighter around me, trying to block out the memories. But nothing worked. His touch, his voice, his weight on top of me... it was all burned into my skin, into my bones.A sob escaped before I could stop it. I bit down on my knuckles to muffle the sound. I didn’t want to be heard. I didn’t want to be seen—not like this.I had been raised by a
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Chapter 7

Chapter 7 — A Blood Soaked in Promise~ARIA~Lorenzo De Rossi was a monster in a man’s skin. His gun still dangled from his fingers, the barrel warm from the last shot. My ears rang with its echo. The scent of gunpowder and iron filled my lungs."I won't swear on the Valente name," I croaked, my voice barely above a whisper. "I'd rather die."His brows lifted slightly, but the smirk was gone. A flicker of something—disappointment, perhaps—passed through his cold, grey eyes. Then he crouched lower, his hand brushing a strand of hair from my face, blood smeared on his knuckles."You always pick the harder path, Aria," he murmured. "But maybe... maybe that makes breaking you more satisfying."I spat at him, the last ounce of defiance I could muster. It hit his cheek. He didn’t flinch. His jaw tensed. Then he stood and turned away, leaving me on the floor. The last thing I remembered before blacking out was the sound of his voice calling for help.~~~~~~~~~~~LORENZO~"She refused," I sai
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Chapter 8

Chapter 8 — The Fire Beneath the Ice~ARIA~The hall was silent, save for the echo of my footsteps across marble so polished it reflected every shard of my broken pride.I was dressed in silk again, this time, emerald.Deliberate, no doubt. The color of power.The color of money.The color of the De Rossi crest. It made me sick. I clutched the edge of the grand stairway, watching the chandeliers shimmer above like stars in a sky I couldn’t touch.I had worn the dress. I had followed the order. But inside, I was plotting.Every breath I took, every blink, every step, I was calculating.Lorenzo thought I was broken. He was wrong. I still remembered how his hand wrapped around my throat. How his voice sank like venom into my skin. How he fired that gun.And how he looked me dead in the eyes like I wasn’t human. Like I was just... property.But I wasn’t the girl who flinched anymore. This estate, the endless halls, the glass towers, the velvet-draped prisons, would become my battlefield.
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Chapter 9

Chapter 9 — The Art of War~ARIA~A hand clamped over Aria’s mouth, dragging her into the shadows before she could scream. Panic surged through her body as she thrashed, but the grip was firm, unyielding. Her feet scraped against the gravel as the figure dragged her backward into the servants' tunnel beneath the De Rossi estate—a passage once used for secrets, now alive with them.The man didn’t speak, but his presence wasn’t unfamiliar. She recognized the scent—a mix of clove, sweat, and old leather. Not Lorenzo. Not one of his soldiers either. But someone who had been watching. Waiting.“Don’t scream,” he finally whispered, his voice low and urgent. “I’m not here to hurt you. But if you want the truth—about your mother, about Lorenzo, about everything—you have to listen to me.”Before she could answer, footsteps echoed from above, close enough to end them both. The stranger released her and slipped into the shadows, leaving only a scrap of parchment in her hand with a serpent emblem
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Chapter 10

Chapter 10 — The Cost of Silence~LORENZO~The room was a ticking time bomb.Luciana stood like a ghost resurrected, her presence cutting through the air sharper than the blade Matteo once held to Giovanni’s throat. Dressed in black with her head held high, she was the embodiment of every buried secret and every sin I tried to outrun. My mother. The woman I had sworn to forget. The woman who chose silence over justice.My fingers curled into a fist at my side.She didn’t flinch.“Lorenzo,” she said, her voice calm, too calm for someone who'd just walked into the lion’s den uninvited.“How did you get in?” Matteo’s voice was ice. Beside me, he had already stepped forward, shielding me the way he used to as boys, back when we were just sons of blood and violence, not the ones making it spill.Luciana’s eyes didn’t leave mine. “You left the gates open.”Lie. We both knew it.She came prepared. Someone had let her in.“You shouldn’t be here,” I said, finally finding my voice.“And yet,” s
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