Chapter 1

My name is Alessandra Moretti, I am 19 years old, just turned, and I am currently a university student studying international business.

It could be said that my self-description is based on the following: I am a nerdy girl who wears thick and large glasses that make me look like an intelligent mosquito, I always come accompanied by books that I carry under my arms everywhere, and Instead of living in love with a boy my age who I find attractive and interesting, I am rather a lover of knowledge that has caused my whole life to have been rejected by ignorant society.

The truth is that everything that has happened to me in life has never been very important to me, it has not been that kind of thing that makes me think about it all day and night with the sole intention of making me suffer.

The truth is that in my books and studying, I have always found the comfort I need to carry on as a normal nerdy girl.

However, life gave me a one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn difficult to make it stop, because, in the blink of an eye, I found myself entangled in the dark sheets of the Italian mafia.

All this is because my family was one of the most powerful and respected both in the country and by politicians, celebrities, and even the mafia itself.

This was something that I had been trying to hide from the society that surrounded me throughout my life since I was aware of this situation because my parents were an exemplary couple, always being very successful in business, and always being highly respected by everyone, addressed as Mr. and Mrs. Moretti.

My parents always tried to protect me, hiding the reality of our family so that I could lead a normal life, a life without dangers or hassles, or having to think that escaping, hiding, was the best option to save me from their decisions and his problems with the dangers that surrounded our family.

However, everything changed the day I met Matteo Salvatore, he was one of the most wanted and feared mafiosi in all of Italy.

Matteo Salvatore was an Italian by birth who had an imposing appearance, as if he were a king whose subjects had to kneel before him when he landed in front of them.

He was a man who had completely penetrating green eyes, and the mere presence of him was capable of making anyone who faced him tremble, or anyone who only looked into his eyes.

Matteo Salvatore was a well-known man in the depths of the darkest blind alleys of every city in the country, and his reputation for what he did was fully known to all.

But then, I was quite surprised when I realized that Matteo Salvatore himself had not cared about wanting to reject me like the rest of the people used to do, quite the opposite happened, you can call me crazy, or whatever, but Matteo Salvatore felt a great attraction towards me that I did not find the right words to explain it.

I was a nerd completely invisible to others, no one seemed to notice my presence no matter how close I was to them, however, Matteo Salvatore decided to look for me and when he found me, he did it in the least unexpected and attractive place in the world for a person As the university library.

It was in that place where our paths finally crossed due to things of fate, two worlds that were so opposite that we would soon realize it when we opened our eyes.

Every day passed, I don't know how, and Matteo was able to make me submerge myself in the waters of the sea of the underworld of the mafia.

Matteo always showed me the dark side of life that I didn't know, a dark side that I only distinguished from the fiction books I read, the movies, the series, and even the news I used to watch to be informed of everything.

What happened to the world today?

The Italian mafia was a world that was surrounded by danger, violence, and even betrayal, although there was also a bit of loyalty, power, and control.

And although my reason screamed for me to get away from this damn world, soon, I began to feel that my heart was getting stronger, all because of this man who only seemed to want to have power and control over me my family, and even me.

Among all this, I ended up finding myself trapped in an extremely dangerous game from which there would be no other end than to end up dead, or imprisoned for life.

Society had always been cruel to me, they had always rejected me for who I was, however, Matteo's appearance in my life made me realize that he was only there to offer me a sense of belonging in his crowded world of dark and dangerous shadows.

But neither could I allow myself to be able to ignore the consequences that this brought to my life and the people I loved, their lifestyle was very different from mine, from the first day I had noticed it, and our relationship had become a kind of forbidden fruit for us that at any moment could harm one of us.

Matteo was a charming man, a man with whom any woman could feel full, loved, and respected, but that did not take away the idea of the reality in which one was submerged without knowing if one day she could get out of it.

Will I be able to escape this new reality? Will love to be true and mutual? Will my family be able to get out unscathed from the bad decisions I have made? I didn't know, it only remained to wait for fate to decide so.