ASTRID SAGE

Everyone calls me naive and innocent, and in every way, I am. When I took a fancy in peering at FREDERICK SALVATORE each time he stopped by the orphanage to drop off his donation, it was just out of mere curiosity. I find him fascinating and alluring, like a piece of art. But when I get kidnapped and put up for auction, he's in the crowd of the deadliest people I've ever seen. He put the craziest bid on me and I get to find out that his name isn't FREDRICK SALVATORE.

He's the notorious EAGAN KING and this is his world. Now I understand why he has that unexplainable dark aura around him. Is it possible to find him less fascinating now that I know what he's truly like?





The Mafia's Little Captive

Chapter 23

“THE WOUNDED KING”
Eagan's POV
The first thing I register is the scent of incense and blood.
My eyes crack open to plaster ceilings peeling like a scab, the flicker of candles dissolved in pool water against the paper moon. A church. Not Sister Grace’s — the stained glass depicts Saint Michael, no...

“THE WOUNDED KING”

Eagan's POV
The first thing I register is the scent of incense and blood.

My eyes crack open to plaster ceilings peeling like a scab, the flicker of candles dissolved in pool water against the paper moon. A church. Not Sister Grace’s — the stained glass depicts Saint Michael, no...

Chapter 22 Chapter One: Kidnapped

Chapter Two: The Auction

Chapter Three: Highest Bidder

Chapter Four: Sold

Chapter Five: Keeping Her

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve: Safe House Confessions

Chapter Thirteen: The Quiet Before

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter 21