Ember Stone

Luca Vittorio De Rossa

THE WRONG SISTER I was supposed to be watching your sister. Not you. Your sister was the one involved in family business. The one people paid attention to. The one expected to inherit influence, power, and all the dangers that came with it. You were never meant to be part of any of it. Sheltered. Protected. Kept far away from the violence that built your father's empire. Then your sister missed a dinner. You went in her place. And everything fell apart. The men waiting outside didn't know there were two daughters. They thought you were her. By the time anyone realized the mistake, you were already gone. I wasn't supposed to intervene. I was there to observe. To watch. To report. Nothing more. Then I watched them force you into a van and disappear into the night. And I made a choice I shouldn't have made. I followed. What happened afterward left bodies on a warehouse floor, blood in the rain, and more questions than answers. The only thing that mattered was that you walked out alive. Now you're caught between two rival families that have spent decades circling each other like predators. The Rossi family wants answers. The De Rossa family wants control. Neither side trusts the other. And somewhere in the middle of it all is a kidnapping that was never meant to happen. You were never the daughter anyone was watching. Never the target. Never the one expected to matter. Yet your disappearance has shaken a balance that existed long before either of us were born. The smart thing would be to stay away from me. After all, I'm Luca De Rossa. The son of your father's oldest rival. The man who walked into a warehouse full of armed men and brought you home. The man everyone will question. The man no one will trust. Including you. Because in our world, good deeds rarely come without a price. And sometimes the most dangerous thing isn't being taken by your enemies. It's being saved by one.