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The Mafia king's wrong captive
Updated at Aug 14, 2026, 04:37
PLOTSophia Bennett has always been of service to those who don’t necessarily select her. After three years of dating an invisible man, Sophia has a boyfriend who leaves her for another woman who has more money. Then she is kidnapped—but not because anyone wanted her.The kidnappers were dispatched by billionaire mafia king Damien Moretti to get the daughter of another family. Instead, they bring him Sophia. It should be just a mistake – but it turns into a deadly slow-burn love story between a woman desperate to be picked and a man too afraid of needing anyone.EXPOSITIONSophia has several jobs to help a family that expects her to make sacrifices to impress them. Her boyfriend humiliates her on the worst night of her life, by leaving her for a richer woman. While returning home devastated, Sophia is kidnapped.She awakens in Damien Moretti's mansion.In public, Damien is an untouchable billionaire business man. Secretly, he controls one of the most powerful mafia organizations in the city. He is cold, disciplined and feared, and has only two people to rely on: his right-hand man Matteo and his grandmother Rosa. Damien conducts his own investigation on Sophia, believing she could be faking her innocence. But eventually he learns that his men have brought him the wrong woman.He wants to release her.Matteo recognizes an unsettling thing—Sophia is changing Damien. INCITING INCIDENTSophia is still stuck in the Moretti mansion, where she endlessly runs into walls with Damien.She doesn't flatter him, fear his wealth or care about his reputation. Her defiant action makes him furious, and makes him gradually captivated.Sophia befriends the servants, and gains Rosa's affection.Isabella returns, and at once realizes the danger. Sophia has become Damien's weakness, and begins manipulating situations to drive them apart.Then there's the frequent appearance of Adrian Sinclair, the charismatic business partner of Damien. He openly admires Sophia's intelligence, and he doesn't expect her to do anything for him because he sees her and feels appreciated.Damien's jealousy grows to a level that he can no longer deny.Meanwhile, Sophia finds herself a secret file with her name on it. The documents are nearly 10 years old.Damien is not willing to give his explanation.Sophia starts to question whether her kidnapping was an accident, for the first time. ..... Sophia and Damien fall in love, but neither can admit it.Damien tells everyone that he hasn't got anything to do with her, but he always knows when she cries. He won't try to soothe her, but he'll stay by her bedside at night when she has nightmares.Sophia starts to fall in love.In response, Damien becomes chilly, and fears that by loving someone, he gives his enemies the strength to destroy him.Then Sophia discovers the secret about the mysterious file.Years ago, Damien made a hard business choice that led to her father's business folding. Now her family is ruined, and the life she's living has been shaped by the financial ruin.Even worse, she finds out that Damien knew her identity before he kidnapped her and had the chance to let her go at any time.Heartbroken, Sophia leaves.This time Damien lets her go.However, in the mansion's courtyard, outside the walls, Sophia finds her family to be a different kind of prison. Her mother describes her as unstable and unfit after living with the Mafia boss, which deprives Sophia of a great opportunity.Sophia has lost a good job too. Sophia blames Damien.Eventually, Naomi learns the truth: Sophia's mother was responsible for the sabotage in the chance because she didn't want to lose the daughter that pays for the family!Sophia finally leaves her family behind.But as all of Damien's world falls apart. The rival family takes revenge when they find out that he intended to kidnap their daughter. Matteo's fiancée is murdered in an attempt on his life and he is devastated.Adrian has leaked information to the other family, thinking that if he could take Damien out of the way, then Sophia could choose him.---CLIMAX Rosa falls ill and Sophia goes back to the Moretti estate to tend to the woman who raised her like her own family.Isabella is changed with her return. She concludes that Sophia didn't want Damien's wealth or power, she only loved him. Isabella admits the tricks she played to tear them apart and Sophia forgives her.But the biggest secret is out.Damien had seen Sophia when she was kidnapped.So many years ago, Damien was separated from his childhood friend that he had been searching for.DENOUEMENTDamien's lies with Sophia are all uncovered.The broken man below the mafia king, the man who has been trying to make himself worthy of her for years and years is Sophia.But Damien doesn't make her stay.He is giving her the freedom denied her.And Sophia chooses him.She comes back to the mansion this time as Damien's match, not a captive.
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