Chapter 113: Cage of Defiance

Aria:

I woke to silk against my skin and the weight of something cold around my ankle.

For a moment, I didn't move. Just lay there in the massive black bed, staring at the ceiling twenty feet above me, trying to remember how I'd gotten here.

The clinic. Dr. Parker's shaking hands tying the restra...

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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