The Inocent Pawn
Aria Collins was just a girl with two suitcases, a head full of dreams, and a sister who always told her to eat properly and lock the door. Then she woke....
Aria Collins was just a girl with two suitcases, a head full of dreams, and a sister who always told her to eat properly and lock the door. Then she woke up in a stranger's villa. Ethan Blackwood. Mafia king. Cold-eyed, ruthless, and feared by an entire city. A man who has never been disobeyed, never been defied, and never, ever been talked over. He knows her name. He knows her sister's name. And he looks at her as if she owes him something she cannot even remember. He says he took her for a reason. He says she will find out soon. But first, there is a basement she should never have seen. A contract she should never have signed. And a sister she is beginning to realize she never truly knew. Bella Collins, the woman who raised her, is hiding a bloody secret. Ethan is hiding something darker. And the one person caught between them is the only one who knows nothing. A pawn is supposed to be silent and obedient. Nobody told Aria. Now the most dangerous man in the city has a wife who raids his kitchen, steals his bed, and makes his guards laugh behind their hands. And the more she annoys him, the harder it becomes for him to remember why he wanted revenge in the first place. Revenge. Lies. Secrets. And a love neither of them asked for. Press play, because someone is lying, and the truth will cost them both everything.