The Light He Betrayed
For our third anniversary, my boyfriend claimed he wanted to 'broaden my horizons'.
However, he was just waiting for me to step into the restroom from the moment we arrived. He immediately shredded my passport and every piece of identification I owned.
Before I could even comprehend what he had done, he dragged me into an underground casino.
He strutted in like he belonged there, greeting everyone along the way.
"This one's premium, fresh from studying abroad!"
I blinked at the massive men closing in on me.
The black rose tattoos on their arms…
They looked like the insignias of the Lyon family, the mafia syndicate led by my ex-fiancé, who was also their newly crowned Godfather.
He once loved me obsessively, pursued me for eight years, and nearly forced me into marriage under the weight of his family's power.
It took everything I had to escape that life back then.
What just happened?
One vacation, and I somehow landed right back into their hands?