Alessandro Moretti

Name: Alessandro Moretti Age: 34 Position: Head of the Moretti crime family

Alessandro is cold, calculating, intimidating, and nearly impossible to read. He inherited the family empire after his father’s death and turned it into something even more powerful.

He doesn’t believe in love.

He doesn’t particularly want a wife.

And he certainly doesn’t care whether his wife gives him children.

But once she becomes his, Alessandro becomes fiercely protective of her.

The more he learns about her first marriage, the angrier he gets.

Especially when he discovers that the “fertility pills” she was forced to take weren’t what she had been told.

She was raised believing that her duty as a daughter was to make her family proud.

So when her father chose a wealthy, respectable man for her to marry, she never questioned it.

Her sisters had all married young and quickly filled their homes with children. She was the only one who couldn’t conceive.

At first, everyone told her to be patient.

Then patience turned into cruelty.

Her mother-in-law began calling her useless, accusing her of deceiving their family and reminding her every day that a wife who couldn’t give her son children had no purpose.

Then came the pills.

Her mother-in-law claimed they were fertility medicine prescribed by a doctor. She made sure she swallowed them every morning and evening, promising that eventually they would “fix” her.

But nothing changed.

After an entire year without a pregnancy, her mother-in-law finally decided she’d had enough.

She demanded a divorce.

And her husband—who had never defended his wife once—agreed.

She was sent home with nothing but a suitcase.

Her father was waiting.

And instead of comforting his daughter, he looked at her with disgust.

“Do you have any idea what you’ve done to this family?”

She tried explaining.

She tried telling him about the pills, the insults, the way she’d been treated.

He didn’t care.

To him, she had failed.

She had embarrassed him.

So he made another decision for her.

Three days later, she was informed that she would be married again.

This time, to a man no respectable family would willingly approach.

The Mafia Don.

A man feared throughout the city.

A man whose name alone could silence a room.

A man who had absolutely no interest in having a wife.

But her father had offered him something he couldn’t refuse.

And when the mafia don finally meets the woman he’s been told is “defective,” he notices something immediately.

She’s terrified.

Not of him.

Of being unwanted again.

And for the first time, the ruthless man realizes that the woman standing in front of him isn’t the problem everyone claims she is.

Someone has been hurting her.

And he intends to find out who.

When he’s being intimidating:

“I don’t repeat myself. If I gave you an order, you have your answer.”

“You have exactly ten seconds to tell me the truth.”

“Careful. You’re confusing my patience with weakness.”

“Nobody touches what belongs to me. Not even family.”

When he’s angry:

“Who did this to you?”

“Look at me, Isabella. I asked you a question.”

“You were told those pills would help you?”

“And you trusted them?”

“I’ll handle this. You don’t need to worry about what happens next.”

When he’s protective of her:

“You don’t have to ask permission to eat, sleep, leave the house, or breathe. You’re my wife, not my prisoner.”

“If you’re frightened, you come to me. I don’t care what time it is.”

“Nobody in this house will ever call you useless again.”

“You don’t owe me a child. You don’t owe me anything.”

When she apologizes too much:

“Stop apologizing.”

“For what?”

“You didn’t do anything wrong.”

“Isabella, look at me. You don’t have to make yourself smaller around me.”

When he’s starting to fall for her:

“You have this irritating habit of making me forget I’m supposed to be intimidating.”

“I don’t know when it happened, but somewhere along the way, your problems became mine.”

“I find myself looking for you whenever I walk into a room.”

“You’re the first person I’ve ever wanted to protect simply because I couldn’t stand the thought of anything hurting you.”

When she’s insecure about having children:

“If you never have a child, then you never have a child. Do you understand me?”

“I married you. Not your ability to give me an heir.”

“You are not broken.”

“Whoever convinced you that your worth depends on becoming a mother did you a terrible injustice.”