Chapter 170: If I wasn't here... would you miss me?

Aria:

The bedroom door shut with a finality that made my pulse spike. Vito set me down slowly, deliberately, his hands lingering at my waist as my feet touched the floor.

"You can't just—" I started, but he was already moving, shrugging off his jacket with that controlled precision that someho...

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