LUCIANA

I was brought into this world as payment.

I stay because leaving isn't simple, and because knowledge is its own kind of weapon. I see how power shifts, how loyalty fractures, how men fall when they underestimate the wrong woman.

I'm no longer just surviving inside Cesare D'Acciao's world. I'm changing because of it. And whatever I become next won't be quiet, obedient, or easy to control.

CESARE

Luciana was never meant to matter beyond settling a score.

Now she's embedded in my life, my decisions, my blind spots. She challenges my authority without raising her voice and forces me to confront a truth I don't like to admit.

This started as a debt. It's becoming something else entirely. And whatever the outcome, there will be consequences... for both of us.

This is the third book in the The D'Acciao Bloodline. Reading order: Reading order: The Price of Sin, The Stain of Sin, The Law of Sin.