I Gave the Mafia King to My Sister

Scarlett Ashford is the legitimate heiress to a billion-dollar hotel, luxury and shipping empire, yet inside her own home she has spent years watching her father give everything to his mistress’s daughter, Vanessa. The only person Scarlett still wants is Luca, her cold, fiercely capable bodyguard. She has pursued him openly for three years, never realizing that Luca is secretly the Black King, head of the Moretti Syndicate, and that he entered the Ashford estate only to approach Vanessa—the woman he mistakenly believes saved a cat at a charity gala years ago.When Scarlett overhears Luca say she cannot compare to a single strand of Vanessa’s hair, she finally stops begging to be chosen.

She takes back the trust and shares left by her mother, releases Luca from her service, and accepts Vanessa’s place in an arranged marriage to Adrian Blackwood, the comatose heir of Moretti’s most dangerous rival family. Luca gets everything he thought he wanted, but Scarlett’s disappearance leaves him restless. His fantasy collapses when he hears Vanessa mock him as a hired guard, admit that she sabotaged Scarlett’s education, and reveal that she destroyed evidence linking Celeste to Scarlett’s mother’s death.Recovered surveillance proves Scarlett was the girl Luca loved all along.

He exposes his identity, destroys the Ashford empire and rushes to Blackwater Bay, only to find Adrian awake and standing beside Scarlett. Adrian has remembered Scarlett since childhood and offers her what Luca never did: freedom, dignity and the right to choose. Luca crashes their wedding, turns repentance into control, and forces Scarlett to give him seven days by threatening the entire estate.During those seven days, Luca bleeds, begs and destroys the Vanessa tattoo over his heart, but Scarlett learns that sacrifice without respect is still possession.

After a final poisonous loyalty trial, she walks away and returns to Adrian. When Vanessa attacks Scarlett, Adrian takes the knife for her. Scarlett chooses him openly, completes the interrupted wedding, and closes the door on the man who learned how to love only after he had already lost her.