She needed fifty thousand dollars. He needed a girlfriend. It was supposed to be a transaction.Amara is a broke campus girl with bills to pay and a family to hold together. When powerful billionaire CEO Ethan Cole slides a contract across his desk and offers her more money than she's ever seen — all she has to do is pretend to love him for six months-she signs it.No feelings. No complications. No crossing the line.But Ethan Cole is not what she expected. He's guarded, complicated, and infuriatingly observant. He notices everything. Remembers everything. And somewhere between the late night conversations, the secret glances, and one waltz that lasted a breath too long, the line she promised not to cross starts feeling very far away.The contract was clear.Her heart didn't get the memo.Some deals were never meant to be just business.

She saw his face.That was her only crime.One wrong shortcut. One warehouse she was never supposed to enter. One moment that cost Elena Rossi the life she had spent years quietly building.Now she's his.Valentino Moretti doesn't make mistakes. He doesn't leave loose ends. And he certainly doesn't keep witnesses.Yet here she is, locked inside his world, breathing his air, sleeping under his roof.She tells herself he's a monster. niShe's not wrong.But monsters don't watch you the way he watches her. Like she's a problem he can't solve. Like she's the one thing in his carefully controlled empire he didn't see coming.She needs to escape.He needs her gone.Neither of them moves.Some cages don't have bars.Some captives stop wanting to leave.The Mafia's Captive ,a dark romance. Available now.