Sold To Four-1

CHAPTER 1 EVELINA “It’s time.” I don’t move. “Evelina,” my mother hisses behind me, her voice tight. “Don’t make this harder than it has to be.” Harder for who? I stare at myself in the mirror. The gown clings to my skin like it wants to suffocate me. I’m twenty-two. I should be graduating. Falling in love. Living. Instead, I’m being handed over like an envelope full of cash — traded by my family to settle old debts with the Moretti mafia. They call it a wedding. I call it a sale. Four. They never told me there’d be four. I thought I was marrying one Moretti heir. But when I step down the aisle, trembling, every man looks at me like he already owns me. Lucien. Dante. Caelum. Rafe. One by one, they approach. Lucien goes first — the eldest, the Don. His kiss is cold and brief,