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Sold to the highest bidder to pay off a blood feud, I never imagined I would be the pawn in my father's fatal game. Still, here I am before Enzo De Luca, the most vicious mafia leader in the city. Though appealing, he is cold, deliberate, and as lethal. Though my heart races just from his proximity, it is his touch that ignites me. My body betrays me and reacts to him in ways I am powerless over. And I melt as he softly, commandingly says my name.

Enzo loves neither me nor another. In his deadly kingdom, I am only another bargain, another transaction. But every time we are alone, the conflict between us snaps—desire becomes a terrible addiction. Although I detest him for everything he stands for, I yearn for the way he consumes me, body and soul.

He has made it quite evident—our marriage is more about power than love. Still, every angry gaze and every snatched moment in the shadow reveals something different. Benevolent underneath his icy façade lies something broken that appeals to the darkest sides of me. But depending on a man like Enzo may mean losing everything.

Bound to him now, for better or worse, I am caught in a world where loyalty is brittle and treachery carries a bullet. Our friendship gets more perilous the more truths about his empire I find. And as the past calls for us, I have to question myself: will our passion be the thing that ruins us both or can I survive loving a guy like Enzo De Luca?

Burning in his arms is me. But in his universe, I could roast alive.

OWNED BY MR MAFIA

The thin flutter of lights hardly pushes back the gloom surrounding me, leaving long, wavering shadows on the wet stone walls. Every breath I do is ragged, every muscle in my body coiled tightly with anxiety and expectation. They hauled me into this dungeon-like cage from the chamber where I last saw Enzo—his face marked with defiance despite the shackles bounding him. Here the quietness seems like suffocation.

Trying to slow my pulse, I sit on the chilly floor. Every second apart from him is like a knife turning farther. I had to leave. I have to track him down. I won to allow them weapons against him using me.

I tighten as footsteps resound down the hall. The door creaks open to see Vincent as a key twists in the lock. He enters, his face inscrutable.

"What do you want right now? I snap, my voice shaking with fury.

DESCENT INTO THE SHADOWS