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Y/N never expected her life to become a bargaining chip. Forced into a contract marriage with Alessio Moretti, a powerful and feared mafia Don, she is brought to his estate while he is away on business. Alessio is a widower and father, but Y/N knows almost nothing about the man she is supposed to marry. She expects an arranged marriage and little more. Instead, she walks into a household controlled by Claudia and her son. At first, Claudia appears perfectly welcoming, but Y/N soon notices unsettling things about the way she treats Alessio’s children Nicolo and Lily. The children are quiet, withdrawn, and clearly afraid of something—but no one seems willing to explain why. As Y/N begins spending time with them, she realizes that the problem isn’t the children. It’s the people who have been entrusted with them. What begins as a marriage of obligation slowly becomes something far more complicated. Y/N finds herself protecting Alessio’s children, uncovering Claudia’s secrets, and challenging the people who have taken advantage of Alessio’s absence. And when Alessio finally returns home, he discovers that his new contract bride isn’t the passive woman he expected. She’s already changing his household. And perhaps, without either of them realizing it, she’s becoming something much more important than his wife. She’s becoming the woman who stands beside the Don.