Total pages in book: 89
Estimated words: 85834 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 429(@200wpm)___ 343(@250wpm)___ 286(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 85834 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 429(@200wpm)___ 343(@250wpm)___ 286(@300wpm)
My father orders me to seduce a man most people are too afraid to even look at.
Georgi Torrisi.
Head of the Torrisi family and a Cosa Nostra Capo.
A brutal and powerful man who rules his world with violence and absolute control.
And I’m supposed to make him want me.
Turns out my father thinks he can use Georgi to get to Atanas Petkov, our family’s sworn enemy. If Atanas continues to grow in power with Georgi’s help, it will mean the end of my father’s reign of terror, and I’m the bait meant to make one of the most dangerous men in New York lower his guard.
Do I have a choice?
No.
Hours later, Georgi Torrisi is chained in my father’s basement while the man I helped betray is beaten and tortured.
My already messed-up life takes a turn for the worse because I didn’t expect the guilt.
I didn’t expect the way his eyes still burn when he looks at me.
And I definitely didn’t expect myself to unlock the chains and set him free.
The moment Georgi walks out of that basement, he turns into a violent monster that’s out for revenge. Once the hallways of my family home are painted red, he takes my daughter and me with him.
There’s no running.
No hiding.
And now all I can do is pray I survive being at the mercy of the man I betrayed.
STANDALONE: A Mafia Romance full-length novel
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Songlist
Spotify
Holding Out For A Hero – Nothing But Thieves
Stronger – Thunderstorm Artis
Do You Really Want To Hurt Me – Denmark + Winter
Oats In The Water – Ben Howard
Such Great Heights – MILCK
Bring You Back – Gold Brother, LIIV
Here We Come – NOCTURN, Lexxi Saal
Knocking On Heaven’s Door - RAIGN
With Arms Wide Open – Tommee Profitt, Nicole Serrano
Love The Hell Out Of You – Lewis Capaldi
Family Tree
GEORGI TORRISI
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Family Business: Cosa Nostra
Father: Renzo Torrisi (Hunted By A Shadow)
Mother: Skylar Torrisi (Hunted By A Shadow)
Sister: Raya Torrisi
Best Friends: Augusto Vitale (Craving Revenge) & Adriano Rizzo (Vicious Devil)
Godfather: Franco Vitale (Craving Danger)
NINA PAVLOVA
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Family Business: Bulgarian Criminal Organization
Daughter: Simona Pavlova - Simi
Father: Boris Pavlov
Mother: Deceased
For clarity, Pavlov is the masculine form of the surname, and Pavlova is the feminine form in Bulgarian.
Chapter 1
Nina
Georgi Torrisi; 35. Nina Pavlova; 27.
Bracing myself for whatever fresh hell my father has decided to unleash today, I push the heavy door open and step inside the office.
Boris Pavlov never calls for me unless he needs something, and it usually means I’ll be forced to suffer through whatever horrid scheme he has planned.
God help me.
The office smells the same as always. Expensive leather, cigar smoke, and whiskey. Scents that seem permanently soaked into the dark wood panels and thick carpets.
Scents that make my stomach churn with dread.
Lifting my eyes, they lock on the man who’s nothing more than my jailer. Hatred and unspeakable pain are the only things I’ve ever received from him.
Dark memories, filled with indescribable trauma, shudder through my broken mind.
Slowly, my gaze goes to the spot where my mother bled out on my eighteenth birthday. We were both called into his office, and when he ordered me to sleep with Anton Belinski so he could secure a deal with him, Mom fought back.
Boris beat her to death right in front of me for daring to oppose him. Up until that moment, I thought being abused by him was the worst fate I could suffer.
I was wrong.
Mom died, and I was locked in a bedroom. That same night, Anton raped me for the first time. My virginity was stolen violently, and since then, I’ve been the payment for every deal Boris has signed with Anton.
The past nine years of hell tighten the noose around my neck a little more as I keep quiet while watching Boris as he sits behind the enormous desk that dominates the room.
His attention is fixed on documents spread out in front of him as if I am no more than a servant entering the room rather than his daughter.
I’ve never been his daughter. The only person who loved me is dead. I don’t even know what happened to her body.
Simi’s face flashes through my mind. Her soft, pink cheeks and dark eyes make her the spitting image of me.
Even though Anton is her father, he has ignored her existence because she’s not a boy.
My daughter’s future fills me with an ungodly fear. I’ve spent countless hours trying to come up with a plan to escape, but everytime I’ve tried, we’ve been dragged back. Boris separated us after my last failed attempt. As punishment, I was locked in the basement for a week while a recording of Simi crying was played on repeat.
It fractured my mind, and I haven’t been the same since.
My daughter is the only reason I’m still alive. Without her, I would’ve slit my own throat years ago.