He Bullied Me, Yet Craved My Kiss

My name is Camille Bellandi, the only sister of Matteo Bellandi, Don of the Bellandi family.​ For the sake of a family alliance, I returned to New York from an overseas medical program to prepare for my engagement to Gabriel Russo, heir to the Russo family.​ But before our formal introduction, Natalie, the childhood sweetheart he spoiled above everyone else, took my late mother’s blue diamond necklace without permission. She mistook me for some poor woman who had snuck into the private preview.​ Gabriel not only failed to recognize me, but also allowed his bodyguards to detain me. He stood by as Natalie crushed my mother’s keepsake beneath her heel and slashed me with a letter opener.​ I canceled the engagement on the spot.​ When my brother arrived with his men, I did not hide behind a Don’s power. Instead, I secured the surveillance footage and authorization records, then personally forced them to face questioning at a family council before several of New York’s Dons.​ Only after Gabriel lost his inheritance, access to the family accounts, his bodyguards, and the protection of the Russo family did he finally understand—​ The woman he had humiliated was the only sister of the most dangerous Don in New York.