ASTRID SAGE

Everyone calls me naive and innocent, and in every way, I am. When I took a fancy in peering at FREDERICK SALVATORE each time he stopped by the orphanage to drop off his donation, it was just out of mere curiosity. I find him fascinating and alluring, like a piece of art. But when I get kidnapped and put up for auction, he's in the crowd of the deadliest people I've ever seen. He put the craziest bid on me and I get to find out that his name isn't FREDRICK SALVATORE.

He's the notorious EAGAN KING and this is his world. Now I understand why he has that unexplainable dark aura around him. Is it possible to find him less fascinating now that I know what he's truly like?





The Mafia's Little Captive

Chapter 23


ASTRID'S POV
THE NEXT MORNING
The kitchen reeks of burned coffee and lemon wood polish. Eagan is standing up at the counter, shirtless, scrubbing at some stain on his forearm — blood or ink, I can’t tell. When he moves, his scars shift like living things, the tattoo over his left shoulder blade ...

  
ASTRID'S POV
THE NEXT MORNING

The kitchen reeks of burned coffee and lemon wood polish. Eagan is standing up at the counter, shirtless, scrubbing at some stain on his forearm — blood or ink, I can’t tell. When he moves, his scars shift like living things, the tattoo over his left shoulder blade ...

Chapter Thirteen: The Quiet Before

Chapter One: Kidnapped

Chapter Two: The Auction

Chapter Three: Highest Bidder

Chapter Four: Sold

Chapter Five: Keeping Her

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve: Safe House Confessions

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter 21

Chapter 22