Carmen Castilo was the only daughter of one of the most powerful mafia dons in the city—until the night her father was shot in front of her.

At his funeral, while the family mourns, Carmen disappears.

Kidnapped from her own home and drugged, she wakes beneath blinding lights in an underground auction where the most powerful criminals in the world gather to bid—not on weapons or territory, but on her.

To them, Carmen isn’t just a woman.

She’s the last piece of her father’s empire.

The final bid reaches a staggering one billion dollars.

The buyer is Nico Romano—the stepbrother she betrayed five years ago.

Once cast out of the family after Carmen accused him of treachery, Nico returns more powerful, more ruthless, and determined to collect the debt he believes she owes him.

Escape is impossible.

Alone, stripped of allies, and trapped under Nico’s control, Carmen is forced to play by his rules—a calculated system of rewards and consequences he calls repayment.

But Nico isn’t the only one playing a game.

While he believes he owns her, Carmen is quietly rebuilding what was stolen from her. Someone murdered her father, and the deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes that his death—and her reason for getting Nico’s exiled—may have been part of the same carefully planned conspiracy.

Surrounded by enemies and secrets, Carmen must reclaim her father’s empire before it falls permanently into the wrong hands.

And the one man who might damn her soul…may also be the only ally powerful enough to help her win.

*Please this is a mafia story. If you’re uncomfortable with blood and killing this is not the story for you*

The problem was, with Nico's blue eyes similar to mine, no one would care about the truth.  


Something my father had and his mother didn't have. The backlash  in the media would be terrible both for Nico and me.


Somehow more for me, hard to imagine that there was something Nico couldn't fix.


"You know I'm right," Bianca continued to speak as she sipped from the wine glass in her hand, and I half hoped it was poison.


Releasing a long sigh of satisfaction as she continued to speak, her gaze fixed on the podium, but we both knew she wasn't paying the slightest bit of attention to whatever was going on.


"What do you want?" I directly asked her, aware that she wouldn't be threatening me if there wasn't something she wanted and she thought I would concede to it.


My gaze set ahead, and I folded the pictures back into the envelope but didn't hand it back to her, aware that she definitely hadn't given me the only copy.


Chapter 51 - Blackmail (2)