Claimed By The Ruthless Dark Mafia Don
I was the untouchable Mafia Queen, but my reign ended in the blood-soaked depths of a damp dungeon.
My half-sister, Kelsey, drove a rusted, sharpened spoon into my chest, screaming about the unfairness of fate.
In my past life, my father sold me to the ruthless Don Dante Blackwell as collateral to pay off his debts.
To survive, I took a black-market fertility drug, birthed his heir, and clawed my way to the throne through sheer ruthlessness.
But in the mafia world, a pregnant woman isn't a queen; she's a walking target.
I survived countless bombings and poisonings, only to be betrayed and slaughtered by my own family.
Until my last breath, I couldn't understand. I had sacrificed everything to secure our survival in the empire. Why did my blood and tears only earn me a rusted spoon to the heart?
Opening my eyes again, I am seventeen, sitting in my father's drawing room.
Two black velvet boxes sit on the mahogany table.
Kelsey greedily snatches the box containing the fertility drug, her eyes gleaming with feverish triumph.
"I'll take this one, Papa."
She thinks she is stealing my golden ticket to the crown, completely unaware that she just chose a death sentence.
I lower my gaze, letting my eyelashes mask the cold, lethal amusement pooling in my eyes as I take the remaining box.
Inside is the detailed psychological profile of the Don's dead fiancée.
This time, I won't be a breeding mare fighting off assassins. I will dissect the devil himself.
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Chapter 5
Giada POV
The cold smile had barely settled on my lips when the heavy oak doors swung open again.
Dante stood in the threshold, his towering frame casting a long, imposing shadow across the carpet. The violent storm in his eyes had been locked away behind a wall of impenetrable ice.
"You stay here tonight," he commanded, his voice a low, authoritative rasp. "Let Katheryn's brother and the rest of the estate know you are under my roof. But don't flatter yourself. I don't touch broken Collaterals. "
He was sending a message to the entire Blackwell empire: I was his property, and touching me meant death. But I knew the beast beneath his tailored suit was starving.
I stood up slowly, feigning a weak wince. The black silk robe I had been given after Dr. Weaver bandaged my wounds slipped off one shoulder. I clutched it to my chest, but not before the fresh white bandages wrapped tightly around my torso were fully visible—along with the faint traces of blood that had already begun to seep through the gauze.
The air in the room instantly thickened. I heard his breath hitch.
The predator was awake. Dante took a slow, heavy step toward me, his dark eyes fixated on my ruined skin. The scent of his bespoke cologne wrapped around me, suffocating and intoxicating. He was going to break his own rule.
I shrank back, retreating to the velvet chaise lounge like a terrified doe. I pulled the silk up, clutching it to my chest, and lowered my eyelashes.
"I know your heart will always belong to Ellen," I whispered, my voice breaking with perfect, tragic fragility. "I would never presume to squeeze into a heart that is already full."
Dante froze mid-step. The name of his dead fiancée struck him like a physical blow. The violent war between his primal lust and his sacred ghost raged in his clenched jaw. He stared at me, his chest heaving, before he let out a harsh, mocking sneer. He turned his broad back to me, walking toward the far side of the penthouse without another word.
Checkmate.
When I woke the next morning, the agonizing fire in my back was gone. Instead, a cooling, medicinal sensation coated my skin. Last night, Dr. Weaver had dressed my wounds while I was still conscious, his swift hands wrapping the bandages I had used to bait Dante. But now, the fresh, icy tingle beneath the gauze told me the ointment had been reapplied while I slept—potent, black-market, and unmistakably ordered by the Don himself. Dante hadn't touched me, but he had commanded my healing in the dark.
Enzo, Dante's most trusted Capo, was waiting by the door. "Signorina Moreno," he said, his tone carrying a newfound, profound respect. "I will escort you to the East Wing."
The East Wing Lounge was bathed in morning light, but the atmosphere was toxic. As I walked in, flawlessly composed, Kelsey stood by the espresso machine. The color drained from her face. She had expected me to be carried out in a body bag.
Nearby, Sasha, the Bratva Collateral, narrowed her eyes. She took in my unblemished face and the haunting resemblance I bore to the ghost that haunted this estate. Pure, calculating hostility flashed in her gaze.
Kelsey recovered quickly, her eyes darting to my bare neck.
"No Claiming Gift?" Kelsey mocked, her voice loud enough for Mia and Chloe to hear. "I suppose surviving the night doesn't mean you actually won the Don's favor. You're still just a debtor's daughter."
She stepped forward, plastering on a sickeningly sweet smile. "But I was so worried about you, sister," she cooed, wrapping her arms around me in a sudden, tight embrace.
Beneath the fabric of my dress, I felt her sharp acrylic nails dig viciously into the exact spot where Katheryn's leather belt had sliced my flesh. She was waiting for me to scream, to break down in agony and become the pathetic joke of the estate.
But Dante's ointment was a miracle of the underworld. I felt the pressure of her nails, but absolutely no pain.
I didn't flinch. I didn't even blink. I simply raised my porcelain cup, took a slow sip of my black coffee, and curved my lips into a chilling, mocking smile right against her ear.
Kelsey pulled back slowly, her eyes wide with absolute, unadulterated panic.
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His fated mate had returned.
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Just as she prepared to leave alone-
The boy she had once rejected had now risen as the most formidable Alpha King. The possessive hunger in his gaze sent shivers through her-did she dare face him? Was this vengeance, or something more? But did she even have a choice?
7.6
Jocelyn Yang lived in the grand Turner Mansion, not as a guest, but as a prisoner. Ever since her father's death, the ruthless billionaire Elam Turner forced her to atone for sins her father never committed.
On her nineteenth birthday, a male classmate secretly sent her a diamond necklace. Elam, who had flown back from London overnight, flew into a psychotic, jealous rage at the sight of another man's gift.
He mercilessly crushed the delicate necklace into the marble floor with his custom leather shoe.
"Did you forget what you are?" Elam hissed, dragging her into a pitch-black storage room. "You take gifts from other men behind my back?"
He pinned her to the dusty floorboards and violently assaulted her. The next morning, a wire transfer of $500,000 hit her bank account. He had humiliated her, broken her spirit, and was now casually trying to buy her silence. Later, when a broken bike left her walking miles through a freezing rainstorm, he just shoved scalding tea into her bleeding hands.
"Look at you," he sneered. "You look like a stray dog ruining my floors."
Jocelyn curled up in the cold, her lips bleeding and her heart shattered. She couldn't understand his terrifying obsession. If he hated her so much, why did he refuse to let her go? Why did he look at her with such manic hunger while systematically destroying her life?
Staring at the massive sum of hush money on her phone, a desperate spark of vengeance flared in her chest. Jocelyn wired every single cent back to Elam's account. She picked up her charcoal pencil, vowing to win the upcoming art competition and buy her escape from this monster forever.
7.9
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In Dangerous Desires, immerse yourself in a realm where lust overrides reason and pulses thunder on the brink of ecstasy and devastation. Each tale strips bare a new facet of craving-where adversaries melt into entangled lovers, hidden truths threaten to shatter kingdoms of control, and erotic hunger flares in the most forbidden corners.
From dominant CEOs and eager assistants locked in charged, sweat-slicked power plays, to tycoons and subordinates blurring the lines of authority with breathless, illicit touches, every clash throbs with electric tension. Foes prowl like flame to tinder, sparking an unstoppable blaze of chemistry that demands skin-on-skin surrender.
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9.3
My father ordered me to marry into the cursed Vaughn family.
Their heirs were rumored to die young from a mysterious genetic agony. My sister Kayden laughed, saying she wasn't going to waste her youth planning a funeral. So, I became the sacrificial lamb.
When I refused, my father slammed his hand on the table and threatened to throw my dead mother's ashes into the city dump.
"You are a struggling actress with no money and no power. You have no choice," he told me coldly.
To make matters worse, my own agent drugged my drink at a business dinner, trying to sell my body to a sleazy investor just to secure project funding.
I was completely cornered, suffocating under the weight of their cruelty. I couldn't understand how my own flesh and blood could be so vicious, treating me like a worthless pawn to be traded and discarded.
But none of them knew that while escaping the drug-laced dinner, I crashed directly into the terrifying Vaughn heir, Algot.
When his glowing crimson eyes locked onto me during a violent episode of his cursed pain, we discovered an impossible truth: my physical touch was the only cure for his agony.
Looking at the dark bruises he accidentally left on my neck, I chose not to run. Instead, I pulled out the private business card he gave me and dialed his number.
"You need me," I whispered to the dangerous billionaire. "And I am going to use you to destroy them all."
9.6
Nelson Smith has been struggling for survival due to kidney failure. Without a transplant, he has less than four months to live.
No one in his family matched after tests were done. Not even his siblings, parents or cousins, except for one person, Janice Capuno, his wife.
Janice used to be the darling of a wealthy Dynasty, until she hid her identity and married the man she loves, Nelson Smith, against her parent's wishes.
Instead of getting love, she was treated like a servant by her mother-in-law, mocked as a gold-digger by her sister in-law, but for her husband, his love towards her remained unshakable. He'd never ceased defending and protecting her from his family, that's why when the doctors confirmed her to be a match, she didn't hesitate to get herself cut open to save Nelson's life.
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There was barely thirty minutes to the surgery, and Janice was already in her hospital gown, waiting to get cut and her kidney given out to save her husband's life, when the reality of everything she had believed in came changing in her eyes.
"Babe....my phone...switch it off...battery." Nelson pointed to his bag weakly before the sedative took full action on him. Just before she'll put the phone off, a WhatsApp notification suddenly popped up. It was from Tricia, his University ex-girlfriend.
"Baby, has the fool gone into the theatre yet? I can't wait for this to be over. Once you get the kidney, we're done with her." The message read.
9.7
Giana woke up drugged and burning with fever in a luxurious hotel suite. Standing before her was Cornel Stark, the most ruthless billionaire in New York.
Memories of her past life stabbed into her brain. In that life, her adoptive family and her fiancé Gary had stolen her inheritance and left her to die a brutal, agonizing death.
She also remembered how fighting Cornel only made him more violent. So this time, she didn't scream.
She endured his brutal punishment, escaped the moment he let his guard down, and swallowed a Plan B pill on the freezing streets.
Returning to her adoptive family's mansion, she faced the people who had destroyed her. Her fiancé and her stepsister put on masks of fake concern, secretly mocking her.
Instead of throwing a useless tantrum like before, Giana deliberately threw herself down the steep wooden stairs.
She smashed her head against the marble floor, using her own blood to shatter their plans and win back her mother's trust.
She thought she had finally taken control. She was ready to crush the people who had betrayed her and live for herself.
But she didn't understand why the billionaire she had just escaped was suddenly turning her life upside down.
When she woke up in the hospital, her room wasn't filled with her family's fake tears, but an ocean of blood-red roses.
The heavy door swung open, and Cornel Stark walked in, his gray eyes locking onto her with a dark, predatory hunger.
"Remember this feeling, Giana. Every breath you take belongs to me now."