Reborn Heiress: Claimed By The Dark Don

Reborn Heiress: Claimed By The Dark Don

Hen Bu

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I spent three years hating Damien Castillo, the ruthless mafia Don who kidnapped me from my engagement party and ruined my reputation. But in the end, it was my perfect fiancé, Julian, and my sweet half-sister, Sophia, who slipped the deadly poison into my wine. As the venom burned through my veins in that freezing cellar, I watched Julian smile. He and Sophia had orchestrated my brutal death. She had been sleeping in his bed all along, intentionally miscarrying his bastard child just to frame me as 'impure' and strip me of my family's protection. My own father used me as a political pawn, letting them throw me away like garbage. And Damien? The monster I had fought and despised for years marched straight into a suicide ambush for me. He was riddled with bullets, turning his body into a human shield just to buy me a few more seconds of life. "Touch her and you die." I died in that blood-soaked basement, clutching his lifeless body, suffocating on my own blind trust. Why did I ever believe the golden boy who betrayed me? Why did I fight the only man who truly loved me? Opening my eyes again, the stench of copper and mold was gone, replaced by the scent of Cuban cigars and black silk. I was back in 1928, on the exact night Damien stormed my engagement party and locked me in his penthouse. This time, when the ruthless Don approached me, I didn't scream or run back to my killers. I wrapped my arms around his neck and kissed him.

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The roar of the Tommy guns still echoed in my skull. The damp, freezing air of the speakeasy cellar was suffocating, thick with the stench of cheap whiskey and copper. Damien's blood was everywhere-soaking my hands, pooling on the unforgiving cement beneath us. He had used his own massive body as a shield, taking the bullets meant for me.

My father, Arthur. My sweet, venomous sister, Sophia. They had poisoned me, offering me up as a weakened bait for the Barron family's trap. And Damien, the ruthless Underboss of the Castillo family, the man I had hated for ruining my life, had driven his armored Cadillac straight into hell to pull me out. He died in my arms. And as the poison finally stopped my own heart, I realized the terrifying truth: I had loved the wrong man, and the devil himself had loved me.

I gasped, my eyes snapping open.

There was no cold cement. No blood. Only the soft, suffocating embrace of deep crimson silk sheets. The scent of expensive whiskey and a faint, masculine cologne replaced the smell of death. A fire crackled in the hearth of a sprawling, dimly lit room.

The penthouse at The Castillo Grand.

I turned my head, my breath catching in my throat. He was standing at the foot of the massive four-poster bed. Damien Castillo. The Demon.

He was alive. He wasn't riddled with bullets; his broad, muscular chest rose and fell steadily beneath his unbuttoned dress shirt. His face, a cruel masterpiece carved from marble, was set in a hard line. His deep blue eyes-like the darkest depths of the Sicilian sea-watched me with a chilling, predatory stillness.

It was March 7, 1925. The night of my engagement party. The night he had publicly ripped me away from Julian Barron and dragged me into his fortress to claim me.

A sob tore from my throat. I didn't care about the past life's hatred. I didn't care that he had just taken my innocence by force hours ago. He was breathing. I scrambled across the mattress, ignoring the ache in my body, and threw myself at him. My hands framed his face, and I crashed my lips against his. It was a desperate, messy kiss, pouring all my grief, my regret, and my sudden, overwhelming relief into him.

For a fraction of a second, his body went rigid. Then, a large, calloused hand clamped around my jaw, his fingers digging into my skin with bruising force. He tore me away, his grip holding my face inches from his.

"Don't play games with me, principessa," he snarled, his voice a low, dangerous rumble that vibrated against my chest.

The absolute zero in his eyes made me shiver. Of course. To him, I was still the caged bird who loved Julian Barron. To him, this sudden submission was a calculated ploy, a desperate woman's trick to lower his guard so I could escape. He didn't know about the warehouse. He didn't know about the betrayal.

"Damien, please-" I choked out, tears blurring my vision.

"You think a sweet kiss will make me open the door?" he mocked, his thumb pressing harshly against my lower lip, silencing me. "You think I am a fool? You belong to me now. Not Barron. Me."

He didn't give me a chance to explain. His mouth crashed down on mine, not with the desperate relief I had offered, but with the punishing, absolute authority of a man enforcing his claim. He pushed me back into the silk pillows, his heavy frame trapping me completely. My mind was a chaotic storm of two lifetimes colliding, and my physical body, already exhausted from the trauma of the abduction, simply couldn't bear the weight of it all.

As his cold, possessive kisses trailed down my neck, marking me as his territory, the edges of my vision blurred, and I let the darkness pull me under.

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“I spent three years hating Damien Castillo, the ruthless mafia Don who kidnapped me from my engagement party and ruined my reputation. But in the end, it was my perfect fiancé, Julian, and my sweet half-sister, Sophia, who slipped the deadly poison into my wine. As the venom burned through my veins in that freezing cellar, I watched Julian smile. He and Sophia had orchestrated my brutal death. She had been sleeping in his bed all along, intentionally miscarrying his bastard child just to frame me as 'impure' and strip me of my family's protection. My own father used me as a political pawn, letting them throw me away like garbage. And Damien? The monster I had fought and despised for years marched straight into a suicide ambush for me. He was riddled with bullets, turning his body into a human shield just to buy me a few more seconds of life. "Touch her and you die." I died in that blood-soaked basement, clutching his lifeless body, suffocating on my own blind trust. Why did I ever believe the golden boy who betrayed me? Why did I fight the only man who truly loved me? Opening my eyes again, the stench of copper and mold was gone, replaced by the scent of Cuban cigars and black silk. I was back in 1928, on the exact night Damien stormed my engagement party and locked me in his penthouse. This time, when the ruthless Don approached me, I didn't scream or run back to my killers. I wrapped my arms around his neck and kissed him.”
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