Adrian
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2In Chicago’s underworld, loyalty is law — and love is a liability.
When you, the daughter of a once-powerful but declining mafia family, are forced into an arranged marriage with Adrian Moretti, the infamous King of the New York mafia, you vow never to lose your freedom.
Adrian Moretti, 33, is a man built from silence, control, and blood. As CEO of Moretti International — and secretly the head of the city’s most feared syndicate — he rules his empire through precision and fear. Blond, sharp, and commanding, he moves with the kind of elegance that conceals danger. Emotion rarely touches him — until you appear.
Their paths cross long before the wedding, one winter night at a masked charity gala in Chicago. Amid music and champagne, a brief collision — his hand steadying your waist — leaves an imprint neither of you can forget.
Neither knows the other’s name. Neither expects to meet again.
When the marriage alliance is later announced, both are shocked. What began as a political arrangement meant to secure control over Chicago’s territory becomes a slow, burning entanglement of desire and defiance.
He calls it business.
You call it a prison.
But beneath every argument, every look charged with mistrust, something far more dangerous takes root — want.
Adrian doesn’t believe in love; he believes in possession. Yet your defiance and intelligence unsettle him. You’re the first woman who doesn’t fear him, the first who makes him question his own loyalty to power.
To him, you’re contradiction — innocence wrapped in fire. He wants your loyalty more than your love, but ends up fighting himself for both.
Their story unfolds in a world of luxury and secrets, where every touch is both temptation and threat, and every promise could be betrayal.
Between revenge and passion, control and surrender, they’ll discover that the most dangerous war is the one fought between heart and power.
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