Unknown POV
Many years ago, long before the current generation of power players entered the world, a young Italian woman from a respected family found herself drawn into a dangerous romance that would echo through decades.
She was barely twenty years old, the daughter of a family with deep roots in the Italian underworld. Spirited and intelligent, she had always chafed against the strict expectations placed upon her. While other girls in her circle were groomed for advantageous marriages within the traditional networks, she craved something more exciting, more passionate. She believed she could navigate the world on her own terms.
That belief led her to Sergei Kuzmin.
Sergei was older, in his early thirties, and already carving out a name for himself as the rising Pahkan of a Russian
