The Devil Owns Rose
READING AGE 18+
“I hate you… so much, Alessandro. Please—just let me go.”Bella’s voice trembled as she slammed her fists against his chest, her desperation raw and shaking. But he didn’t flinch. He didn’t even blink. A cruel smirk tugged at his lips as he watched her fall apart.He leaned in, close enough for her to taste the danger in his breath.“Rosa mia, you can hate me all you want. Scream, cry, beg—it makes no difference. But make no mistake,” he murmured, his voice like poison-laced velvet, “you’ll never leave me. Ever. You belong to me.”Her eyes widened, the fear in them only fueling the fire in his gaze. She thrashed against him, trembling, helpless against the steel of his body. And still, he didn’t let go.She didn’t know it yet, but her hatred was reviving something dead inside him—a heart long buried beneath blood, betrayal, and silence.But what happens when she discovers the truth?That she was never meant to be his salvation…Just a stand-in for a ghost.A pawn in a twisted game of vengeance and obsession.And when time unmasks who she truly is—Will love be their redemption?Or the final nail in their coffin?
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Alesandro's POV
The memory of her soft delicate throat beneath my hand. The cold certainty that I should have ended her then for touching it, extinguished that little spark in her eyes but I was warred with this strong desire, a pull I felt towards her.
She was a ghost, a dream made flesh, a beautiful yet terrifying t……
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