"You are mine, Caroline," he'd whispered, his words a brand on her skin, a promise and a threat. "There is no escaping this. No escaping me."Caroline thought she knew pain. She thought she understood betrayal. But when the ruthless Don Vincenzo Mancini forces her into a marriage to settle a generations-old debt, her world shatters. Stripped of her freedom, trapped in a gilded cage, Caroline vows to resist... more"You are mine, Caroline," he'd whispered, his words a brand on her skin, a promise and a threat. "There is no escaping this. No escaping me."Caroline thought she knew pain. She thought she understood betrayal. But when the ruthless Don Vincenzo Mancini forces her into a marriage to settle a generations-old debt, her world shatters. Stripped of her freedom, trapped in a gilded cage, Caroline vows to resist. She meticulously plots her escape, leveraging her sharp intellect to uncover the Mancini family's darkest secrets and the intricate web of deceit that binds her to them.But Vincenzo is no ordinary captor. He's a man consumed by vengeance, a dangerous force of nature who sees not just a pawn, but a queen in the making. As Caroline navigates the treacherous underworld, her strategic brilliance becomes indispensable to him. In the heat of battle, amidst shattering revelations about her own family's complicity in the mafia's bloody history, a twisted, undeniable connection forms between them. It's a bond forged in fire, blood, and shared survival, a possessive darkness that transcends simple hatred or desire."You speak of freedom, cara mia, but what if your greatest power lies within my empire?" Vincenzo once challenged, his eyes burning with an unsettling mix of respect and raw hunger."My power is my own, Don Mancini," Caroline had retorted, her voice trembling but defiant, "and I will use it to break these chains, no matter the cost."The Broken Contract With The Mafia is a dark, intense, and emotionally charged romance about survival, power, and the terrifying lines between captor and willing partner, where true freedom might be found not in escape, but in absolute control within the cage. less
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