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WARNINGS & DISCLAIMERS
Hello to my beautiful readers!!
Welcome onboard on this journey with me, and I’d like to say thank you all for giving this book a chance. If this is my first book to ever come your way on this platform, please do well to check out my other book—CREATED FOR RUIN.Without further delay, I’d like to clearly state that this book is not one of your traditional Romance novels. This book is heavy with dark themes.LET ME SAY IT AGAIN, THIS BOOK IS HEAVY WITH DARK THEMES.So, if you’re uncomfortable with reading explicit sex scenes, detailed emotional, mental, and physical abuse, violence, murder, blood spillage—then this book is definitely not for you. They'll be intense manipulation as this book moves forward—the kind of manipulation that makes you loathe the characters, and yet, you still find yourself looking forward to the next chapter.MAYBE IT IS I WHO'S THE MANIPULATIVE ONE.A BRIEF RUNDOWN OF THE MAIN CHARACTER AND HER LOVE INTEREST:-FMC:-Name: Oceane AugustinAge: 19MMC:-Name: Angioletto LuoniAge: 25AKA: Grim Reaper.LET’s GET INTO IT!!Still me, Author Beauty!
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DEADLY DEVOTION Chapter 0001
ANGIOLETTO Dark hair slicked back, perfectly tailored Armani suit hugging onto my body, icy blue eyes sunken. Dark. Monstrous. I look powerful, I feel powerful, I know I’m powerful, but why do I feel so incomplete? What’s this hollow I feel? Where has my courage gone? I step out of the car and the cold breeze that settles against my skin unsettles me. My heart skips its beat one too many times. Something of discomforting sensation crawls beneath my skin. I have no explanation for this feeling but I know it’s. . .something. Perhaps fear. Fear. Psychology would define fear as a basic, intense emotion aroused by the detection of imminent threat, involving an immediate alarm reaction that mobilizes the organism by triggering a set of physiological changes. It triggers your fight or flight hormone. But today, I fight. So amidst this grim feeling eating at my soul, I pray. My voice a hushed murmur, but I pray intently with my rosary wrapped tightly around my fist as I lay my s
DEADLY DEVOTION Chapter 0002
OCEANE “Oceane! Oceane!” I startle at the manner at which my name is being screamed. What startles me more is the speed my door flings open by, and the panicked look of my mother’s maid. My voice shakes when I ask, “what is happening?” She doesn’t speak. There’s not a word uttered, but I know too well what this is about. I know why she’s here, and I know why she’s out of it. I run. To my mother. To the woman who has done everything possible to nurture and treat me like something more than an object. Tears run down my face when I hear her screaming in pain. Her scream is all I hear. Her cries are all that resonates in my eardrums. And when I stand in front of her ajar door, my skin pale at the sight of her. Why has she been left to suffer like this? “The baby is breeched and she’s bleeding out a lot.” I hear a shaky voice whisper from behind me. I gulp. “Take her to the hospital.” “Your father wouldn’t let us.” I look behind me with thinned lips, tears streaming down my face
DEADLY DEVOTION Chapter 0003
OCEANE Heaving in short and fast breaths, I lean against a wall, my fingers digging into my chest. It hurts so bad. My head, my chest, my legs—every part of me is in dire pain. I think I lost him. Finally. I’ve been running for so long—too long that I feel like I’m about to pass out. I’ve been running for so long that even the night has caught up with me. “Just a little bit longer.” I encourage myself. Shutting my eyes tightly, I drag in a long breath, exhaling shakily. I spin on my heels to begin walking when I bump into something rigid. Something hard. Something with a heartbeat. Something with a pulse. Realization hit me. It’s not a something, but a someone. “Did you have a swell time?” He questions, his cold eyes trained intently on me, his lips stretched into a grin. My bones wobble. I almost scream out a series of curse words but force myself to silently take whatever life throws at me. I know it in the back of my mind how much I’ve tested this man’s patience, but here
DEADLY DEVOTION Chapter 0004
ANGIOLETTOIt is considered a deformity to be fixated on a particular person or object. It is a deformity to be narrow minded. It is a deformity to only find psychological fulfillment from just one person.My therapist had so many words to describe my obsessive tendencies. But right now, all I want is to live with that deformity for the rest of my life.My new obsession. A beauty to behold. From the moment I set eyes on her, from dusk to dawn, every day since I’ve had her under my care, she has been imprinted in my DNA.A part of me and I have no complaints.She’s my obsession, constantly pouring through my soul like a soothing cold breeze that leaves me longing for more.“Oceane Augustin.” I test out the feel of her name on the tip of my tongue while I watch her through the cameras.Yes, my penthouse has security cameras placed in every corner, all of which are connected to the big screen in my room—for security reasons of course.Except now, it’s serving other purposes.It’s not tha
DEADLY DEVOTION Chapter 0005
ANGIOLETTO When I received a text from my father informing me of this meeting, I knew something was off. I knew it had something to do with my hostage, and now, I’ve confirmed my suspicions to be true. Thirty minutes have I been here, still, there've been no words spoken, just the continuous rise in the tension radiating off of each person in the room. Mio padre, his first son, Massimo, and his second son, Antonio. “How have you been?” My older brother—Massimo questions, his eyes, as dark as the midnight, burning holes through my skull, reminding me that his question, as sweet as it might sound, is far from him merely inquiring about my physical state. “Fine.” I simply answer, gaining a unified hum from all three of the men. “Haven’t you been getting enough sleep? Your eyes are really sunken.” Mio padre further asks. Completely aware that his question springs from a place of genuine concern, I answer in a soft voice. “Sto bene, padre.” He nods. “What about Dumont Augustin, has
DEADLY DEVOTION Chapter 0006
OCEANE Growing up, I wasn’t so good at a lot of things. Speaking, fencing, fighting, using a gun, I failed at so many things until the passing of my mother. After my mother had passed on due to my father’s selfishness and carelessness, I began to push myself into becoming better at the things I failed at. My mother’s passing was my motivation. It was only then that I realized all I had was me. Just me, alone in this wicked world. I could no longer condone my weakness. I could no longer leave myself vulnerable. I could no longer allow myself to be a prey in the midst of predators. I worked hard. Still, I failed. I was just a failure. I was just a girl who couldn’t grow taller than 5’2. I was significantly smaller than girls my age and it was to my disadvantage. My father’s hatred towards me only intensified after my series of failures and he began to take his abuse to the next level. His abuse was no longer verbal but physical, emotional, and mental. He’d hit me, force me in
DEADLY DEVOTION Chapter 0007
ANGIOLETTO There are five stages of grief. Denial and Isolation. Anger. Bargaining. Desperation. And lastly, Acceptance. In the last seventy two hours, I’ve been roped into, and have suffered with great intensity each stage of grief respectively. While I was in denial, I couldn’t believe that my beautiful, little Oceane had left me without as much a goodbye note. She stole all my money, stole my car, and left, and I sat there in my room, watching all of it unfold before my own eyes. And then denial morphed into anger. I was aggravated, Infuriated, irritated. I lost my mind the minute she walked out my door. I was roped into intense anger that I didn’t realize when I had begun ruining everything until my penthouse was turned upside down. That was before I began to physically harm myself. I needed to feel something other than anger. Hurting myself physically was my last resolve. I blamed myself for allowing my brother’s words get to me. I am no logical thinker. I have never be
DEADLY DEVOTION Chapter 0008
OCEANEOne month later.It was a surprise, the turn of events when I had returned to my captor one month ago. While I contemplated returning and giving myself back to him, I thought he would be livid. I believed that I was going to be punished severely for running away, but that wasn’t the case.The brooding man hugged me. Embraced me.Soothed me.And then later declared that I could do what I’ve been desiring for the longest time. Go to school.I couldn’t believe it, and so, I continued to ask him if he was sure for days until the day I was finally enrolled.The experience and excitement I felt was out of this world and it took a lot of restraint for me not to throw myself into Gio’s arms and thank him.His kindness towards me only continued to grow like he was desperate to be in my good books. He perhaps felt bad for me after I lost my entire family the way I did.A few days after my enrollment, Gio had packed up a few things and left his penthouse.‘Hey baby girl, it’s quite unfort
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