Claimed By The Heartless Heartbreaker

I fell in love with the boy

s only son. The king of my heart

auty. The kind of place that made you believe the world still had some good left in

Mama

enuine love, the kind that saved me. She provided me with Villa del Rosario, tutors, clothes, and jewelry t

pared to the one thi

of boy people noticed without him saying a word. Girls tripped over themselves to

ispering Grove, a place no one dared to follow, except me. I woul

ing beautiful wasn't enough. When he sketched, there

'd utter a single word. . . "Leave," an

River, where the lagoon sparkled in the sunlight. That was

y fourteent

told myself it didn't matter, but that morning, I escaped to the

eps wo

w, nineteen, eyes locked o

to, Princess," he said, his voice l

wha

your party, you're here pretendi

working, and I was hiding. I sat up, brushing

are you

the vi

knelt across from me, eyes unreadable as they

nally, "I'm just glad

ed. "But Roseva

feel the cool mint of his breath. My heart

y, "because I won't have

hit like

do you

'll never accept you as my si

d died of leukemia a year before I

ng to adopt you. Her lawyer's bringing the papers tonight.

my reply. He turn

t to be his

. I blurted it out before I could restrain myself. "Mom,

s she tilted her head. "Don't

agine my life without you...

"Elias can be di

a brother. As some

Then, to my shock, she smiled.

odd

marry my Elias. Let's

everyone, she declared I

thing. He left before the party

na," he said coldly before

o the capital, weeks earlier th

Mama Celeste insisted he was busy with his studies, preparing to t

believ

eventeenth

afternoon, I went to the lagoon for a nap. By the time I woke, it was dark.

up. His hand lingered on my arm, and in that moment, a sleek bl

e. My curiosity flared. Witho

ife, and the car conti

ed in the garage. My pulse quickened. Who wo

this wasn't just a

was