Chapter 112: The Trap Closes
Aria:
Ten PM. I'd waited until the night shift nurse made her rounds, giving myself an hour before she'd come back.
I'd changed into my dark clothes—black leggings, black hoodie, running shoes—and tucked my hair under a baseball cap.
The gun was a cold weight in my jacket pocket, the remaining ca...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1: I Died Once Already
2. Chapter 2: I Caught That Man's Attention
3. Chapter 3: Into the Wolf's Den
4. Chapter 4: I Thought I Could Escape
5. Chapter 5: Instagram Friends and Incoming Bruises
6. Chapter 6: The Marriage Shackle
7. Chapter 7: Blood Money
8. Chapter 8: The Scent of Submission
9. Chapter 9: Only I Can Smell It
10. Chapter 10: The Cage
11. Chapter 11: She Draws Me In
12. Chapter 12: I Wake to His Mouth on My Throat
13. Chapter 13: Disrupting my happy plans
14. Chapter 14: Terms and Conditions
15. Chapter 15: Allies in Captivity
16. Chapter 16: Sleepwalked
17. Chapter 17: Liar
18. Chapter 18: Don Castellano's mystery woman
19. Chapter 19: Exposure
20. Chapter 20: I'm actually shot
21. Chapter 21: Stay with me
22. Chapter 22: He Thinks It's About Principle
23. Chapter 23: The Engagement I Slept Through
24. Chapter 24: You're Rich, I'm Shameless
25. Chapter 28: The Price of Being Seen
26. Chapter 26: He Actually Wants to Feed Me Himself
27. Chapter 27: Delusions and Soup
28. Chapter 28: Camilla's pregnant
29. Chapter 29: Blood Ties and Broken Promises
30. Chapter 30: Mistress and Madness
31. Chapter 31: The Sound of Ten Slaps
32. Chapter 32: You owe me one
33. Chapter 33: Consequences
34. Chapter 34: Frame up
35. Chapter 35: The game wasn't over
36. Chapter 36: CRASH
37. Chapter 37: You owe me another favor
38. Chapter 38: Which would you choose
39. Chapter 39: The investigation came to nothing
40. Chapter 40: Sit, Aria
41. Chapter 41: Maybe I wanted to see you
42. Chapter 42: My secret mistresses?
43. Chapter 43: Breaking Point
44. Chapter 44: You killed me
45. Chapter 45: Just Anyone
46. Chapter 46: Reversal
47. Chapter 47: Small victories
48. Chapter 48: Desperate Measures
49. Chapter 49: Successful Persuasion
50. Chapter 50: Kidnapping
51. Chapter 51: Escape
52. Chapter 52: Just this once
53. Chapter 53: The hand at my throat tightened
54. Chapter 54: He kissed me
55. Chapter 55: Fight or Flight
56. Chapter 56: Previous patterns
57. Chapter 57: Vito did this to you?
58. Chapter 58: Sisterly Confessions
59. Chapter 59: Are you threatening me?
60. Chapter 60: The Gun Between Us
61. Chapter 61: Falling in love with Nicola Mancini
62. Chapter 62: A Bastard's Instinct
63. Chapter 63: She was asking permission
64. Chapter 64: The boutique was empty except for us
65. Chapter 65: The dress suits you
66. Chapter 66: You want it
67. Chapter 67: The Gift That Binds
68. Chapter 68: Fair's fair, little bird
69. Chapter 69: Upset
70. Chapter 70: Reckoning
71. Chapter 71: I wouldn't let her go
72. Chapter 72: Negotiations in the Dark
73. Chapter 73: I’ll Call Off Your Engagement For You
74. Chapter 74: Vito—stop—that hurts—
75. Chapter 75: Mirror Judgment
76. Chapter 76: Debts and Dependencies
77. Chapter 77: Testing Boundaries
78. Chapter 78: Sex Dream
79. Chapter 79: Aftermath
80. Chapter 80: The Unraveling
81. Chapter 81: Poison and Antidote
82. Chapter 82: I'm doing this for you
83. Chapter 83: The Devil's Bargain
84. Chapter 84: The Velvet Trap
85. Chapter 85: The Deal
86. Chapter 86: I think I've earned it
87. Chapter 87: I wasn't about to make that mistake twice
88. Chapter 88: Very high-handed
89. Chapter 89: The Changed Plan
90. Chapter 90: Steam and Surrender
91. Chapter 91: Caged Beast and Hunter
92. Chapter 92: Something about young Nicola getting married tomorrow
93. Chapter 93: The Don Arrives
94. Chapter 94: A mockery of tenderness that made my skin crawl
95. Chapter 95: Shattered Pride
96. Chapter 96: I was so fucking tired of disappearing
97. Chapter 97: My escape route vanished
98. Chapter 98: Shame that she was fighting back
99. Chapter 99: Careful, uccellino
100. Chapter 100: The kiss was brutal, possessive, claiming
101. Chapter 101: I'm done with that performance
102. Chapter 102: But you're still mine
103. Chapter 103: Monsters don't get happy endings
104. Chapter 104: He almost killed me last night
105. Chapter 105: Let him think he'd won
106. Chapter 106: The Gilded Cage
107. Chapter 107: He's turning captivity into comfort
108. Chapter 108: You want to watch me cook?
109. Chapter 109: You're not eating
110. Chapter 110: The hunt had begun
111. Chapter 111: The Fugitive's Gambit
112. Chapter 112: The Trap Closes
113. Chapter 113: Cage of Defiance
114. Chapter 114: You've always been mine
115. Chapter 115: You're a monster
116. Chapter 116: The metal closed around my skin with a soft click
117. Chapter 117: Please don't leave me
118. Chapter 118: I'd actually almost died
119. Chapter 119: Then give her the tools to fight back
120. Chapter 120: He wanted to marry me
121. Chapter 121: You'd kill me yourself
122. Chapter 122: Intertwined Nightmares
123. Chapter 123: The Scent of a Dream
124. Chapter 124: If Lorenzo and Vito were the same person...
125. Chapter 125: What did I think of Vito?
126. Chapter 126: I want to marry her
127. Chapter 127: A true perfumer must have a free soul
128. Chapter 128: One-Sided Green Envy
129. Chapter 129: Just let me see you in it
130. Chapter 130: The Right to Show Off
131. Chapter 131: You know what the best part of being married is?
132. Chapter 132： Uninvited Visitor
133. Chapter 133: Blood and Perfume
134. Chapter 134: They're not helping because he doesn't need help
135. Chapter 135: You can't let fear steal your dreams
136. Chapter 136: Do you want me there?
137. Chapter 137: You manipulative bastard
138. Chapter 138: He chose to be tamed
139. Chapter 139: A collar
140. Chapter 140: My mother was raped
141. Chapter 141: The Truth Unveiled
142. Chapter 142: She should never have been born
143. Chapter 143: I was so tired of fighting alone
144. Chapter 144: The Thanksgiving Reckoning
145. Chapter 145: The Breaking Point
146. Chapter 146: I was the living result of that sustained torture
147. Chapter 147: No more pretending
148. Chapter 148: But I wasn't that scared girl anymore
149. Chapter 149: Blood Debt
150. Chapter 150: The Final Severance
151. Chapter 151: Only you
152. Chapter 152: Husband
153. Chapter 153: So you like me
154. Chapter 154: I don't know if I can be... gentle
155. Chapter 155: Do you have any idea what you do to me?
156. Chapter 156: Where is Caterina
157. Chapter 157: Threatening the woman I intend to marry
158. Chapter 158: She's willing to marry him?
159. Chapter 159: She's not there
160. Chapter 160: I want that woman dead
161. Chapter 161: The Truth in Despair
162. Chapter 162: I died and woke up four years in the past
163. Chapter 163: Condition. Doctor. Next week
164. Chapter 164: Family Tribunal
165. Chapter 165: "You Asked If I'd Kill Him? I Only Care What You Want
166. Chapter 166: Is she alive?
167. Chapter 167: One bullet. Clean. And everything I have goes to her
168. Chapter 168: Aria, would you have my child?
169. Chapter 169: The Last Afternoon
170. Chapter 170: If I wasn't here... would you miss me?
171. Chapter 171: A marriage certificate
172. Chapter 172: Ten to one Vito doesn't come back at all
173. Chapter 173: I'm Vito's wife
174. Chapter 174: Get me to Berlin
175. Chapter 175: Pregnant
176. Chapter 176: I don't want to run anymore
177. Chapter 177: Rain-Soaked Secrets
178. Chapter 178: Revelation of the Past Life (1)
179. Chapter 179: Revelation of the Past Life (2)
180. Chapter 180: Revelation of the Past Life (3)
181. Chapter 181: Revelation of the Past Life (4)
182. Chapter 182: Revelation of the Past Life (5)
183. Chapter 183: Revelation of the Past Life (6)
184. Chapter 184: Revelation of the Past Life (7)
185. Chapter 185: Revelation of the Past Life (8)
186. Chapter 186: Revelation of the Past Life (9)
187. Chapter 187: Revelation of the Past Life (10)
188. Chapter 188: Lorenzo was Vito
189. Chapter 189: Lorenzo, it's been a while and I missed you so much
190. Chapter 190: We're going to have a baby
191. Chapter 191: Nightmares Deliver the Harsh Truth (1)
192. Chapter 192: Nightmares Deliver the Harsh Truth (2)
193. Chapter 193: I Would Die For You
194. Chapter 194: Everything I Have Is Yours
195. Chapter 195: It's everything you have now
196. Chapter 196: Now, you can kiss your bride
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