She saved the mother of the most dangerous mafia boss, and he made her his wife to protect her from enemies, but the truth about her past shocked everyone and left them all stunned π±π€―π¨
Three shots rang out almost simultaneously.
Elara had been working in Dorian’s house for several months. She was one of those people almost no one noticed: she helped around the house, ran errands, and tried to stay out of the master’s sight. Dorian was a man the servants preferred to speak of only in whispers.
That evening, Elara was in the house when everything happened.
Celeste, Dorian’s mother, was coming down the stairs while several guards were in another part of the mansion. Suddenly, gunshots rang out. One of the attackers appeared in the corridor and pointed his weapon straight at Celeste.
Elara saw it first.
She didn’t even have time to think. The girl threw herself forward and shielded Celeste with her own body.
“Get down! Quickly!” Elara shouted.
Shots rang out. Elara collapsed to the floor, hit by three bullets, but even then she tried to get up.
Dorian was at her side within seconds. He knelt beside the girl and saw the blood on her clothes.
“What’s happening here?” he asked coldly.
“We don’t know yet,” one of the guards answered. “But she saved Celeste. If the girl hadn’t shielded her…”
“Don’t finish that sentence,” Dorian cut in sharply. “Find whoever did this.”
Doctors arrived directly at the mansion and fought for Elara’s life for several hours. Dorian stayed by her side the entire time while his men tried to find out who was behind the attack.
After a while, his closest friend and most trusted man in the organization β Michael β came up to him.
“We found a lead. The order came through Cassian’s people. This time they decided to strike where it hurts most. They wanted to kill your mother.”
Dorian slowly raised his eyes.
“Are you certain it was their doing?”
“Absolutely. But there’s another problem. We found out something about the girl who saved her.”
Not a single muscle moved on Dorian’s face.
“Don’t say any more. That’s enough. Who else besides the two of us knows about this?”
Soren frowned.
“So far, I haven’t told anyone.”
“Good. Some secrets are more dangerous than war itself. Keep your mouth shut until I decide how to handle this.”
Dorian was silent for a few seconds, then took a small velvet box from his inner pocket.
Elara lay unconscious in her room, hooked up to machines. Dorian walked in, went to her bed, and opened the box. Inside was a gold ring. He carefully slipped it onto the girl’s finger.
“From this moment on, she is my wife,” Dorian said quietly.
Michael froze in the doorway.
“But why? She could die any second. What’s the point?”
Dorian looked at Elara.
“I’m just trying to protect her.”
But Dorian had already learned the whole truth.
And what happened next didn’t just shock Cassian, Dorian’s worst enemy, and everyone else β it completely turned the course of the story upside down. π€―
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When Elara came to, the first person she saw was Dorian.
“Where am I?” she asked quietly.
“You’re safe. But now it’s time for you to tell me the truth.”
Elara was silent for a long time, then closed her eyes.
“I’m Cassian’s younger sister.”
Dorian wasn’t surprised.
“I knew.”
Elara looked at him sharply.
“Then why did you let me stay in the house?”
“Because I loved you even before you became part of my family.”
Elara admitted that Cassian had sent her to spy on Dorian. She was supposed to gather information and pass on to her brother everything that happened in the house. But over time, Elara grew attached to Celeste and the others, and then realized she had fallen in love with Dorian himself.
When Cassian decided to use her information for the attack, Elara refused to help him.
“I couldn’t let him kill Celeste,” she whispered. “So I stood in front of her.”
But Cassian already knew about his sister’s betrayal. That’s why the attack was arranged to get rid of two problems at once.
At that moment, a call came in. Cassian demanded a meeting.
Dorian went there alone, but Elara followed him.
At an old warehouse, Cassian met them with a weapon in his hand.
“You chose him over your own family,” he told his sister.
Elara stepped forward.
“No. I chose the people you were about to kill.”
Cassian raised his weapon, but Dorian was faster. After a brief struggle, the police, whom Michael had called in advance, burst inside. Cassian was arrested along with several of his men.
Later, Elara returned to the mansion and saw Celeste.
“You’re no longer obligated to stay here,” the woman said. “But if you want to, this house will always be yours.”
Elara looked at Dorian.
“And the wife?”
Dorian smiled.
“If you still agree, the ring stays on your finger.”
Elara looked at the gold ring and smiled for the first time.
She had come to this house as her brother’s spy, and stayed as the person who saved her enemy’s family and found her own.
