He didn't choose me. He kept me.
One reckless night with a stranger in a bar, and I thought that was the end of it. No name, no number — just a memory I wasn't supposed to keep.
Then his men dragged me out of my own flat.
Matteo Falcone doesn't explain himself. He doesn't apologize. He locks the door, clasps a bracelet with his initials around my wrist, and tells me exactly how little control I have left — while an engagement to secure his family's empire ticks down in the background like a countdown I'm not invited to survive.
I should hate him.
I don't. Not entirely. Not when his hand finds the back of my neck like it belongs there. Not when he breaks down a door because he thought I was hurt. Not when I catch him watching me the way I once watched him across a bar, before either of us knew what this was going to cost.
He calls it keeping me safe.
I call it a cage with very good taste in jewelry.
But somewhere between the threats and the truth, the bracelet stopped feeling like a leash — and started feeling like a choice.
Chosen by the Don is a full-length, dark mafia romance with a possessive, protective hero, a heroine who refuses to break quietly, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after. Contains explicit content and themes some readers may find intense — see content notes below.
Tropes: captive romance, possessive/dominant hero, one-night-stand-to-forced-proximity, arranged marriage subplot, found family, morally grey hero, HEA guaranteed.
Contains: explicit sexual content, depictions of violence, kidnapping/captivity themes, power imbalance dynamics between hero and heroine. Intended for adult readers (18+).
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One reckless night with a stranger in a bar, and I thought that was the end of it. No name, no number — just a memory I wasn't supposed to keep.
Then his men dragged me out of my own flat.
Matteo Falcone doesn't explain himself. He doesn't apologize. He locks the door, clasps a bracelet with his initials around my wrist, and tells me exactly how little control I have left — while an engagement to secure his family's empire ticks down in the background like a countdown I'm not invited to survive.
I should hate him.
I don't. Not entirely. Not when his hand finds the back of my neck like it belongs there. Not when he breaks down a door because he thought I was hurt. Not when I catch him watching me the way I once watched him across a bar, before either of us knew what this was going to cost.
He calls it keeping me safe.
I call it a cage with very good taste in jewelry.
But somewhere between the threats and the truth, the bracelet stopped feeling like a leash — and started feeling like a choice.
Chosen by the Don is a full-length, dark mafia romance with a possessive, protective hero, a heroine who refuses to break quietly, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after. Contains explicit content and themes some readers may find intense — see content notes below.
Tropes: captive romance, possessive/dominant hero, one-night-stand-to-forced-proximity, arranged marriage subplot, found family, morally grey hero, HEA guaranteed.
Contains: explicit sexual content, depictions of violence, kidnapping/captivity themes, power imbalance dynamics between hero and heroine. Intended for adult readers (18+).
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