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Married to the Mafia, Who Can’t Recognize My Face

Tamara Rigby became the wife of the most feared man in the city without ever being truly seen. Rafael Tanque — the king of the underground, the man who rules blood, money, and loyalty with an iron hand — cannot recognize faces. Not hers. Not his enemies’. Not even the woman he married. To the world, Tamara is the beautiful mafia bride standing beside Rafael Tanque. To Rafael, she is a voice. A scent. A presence he cannot escape. And that terrifies him more than any gun ever could. When a brutal ambush nearly kills Rafael, something inside his damaged mind fractures. The condition he has hidden for years — his inability to recognize faces — worsens, erasing even the fragile map he had built of his own wife. Tamara becomes a stranger sleeping in his bed… yet somehow, his body, his instincts, and his obsession know she is his. He does not remember her face. But his hands remember how she fits against him. His heartbeat remembers her. His anger burns when she pulls away. Trapped inside a marriage where the man who owns her life cannot even identify her, Tamara must survive a world of betrayal, mafia politics, and a husband whose love is as dangerous as his power. But the real nightmare begins when their child disappears. Kidnapped from under the Tanque empire itself, the missing baby becomes the ultimate weapon. Enemies move in the shadows, manipulating Rafael’s blindness and Tamara’s desperation, forcing them into a deadly game where every memory, every touch, and every secret could either save their family — or destroy it. Tamara refuses to be just a silent mafia wife. She becomes ruthless. She becomes cunning. She becomes willing to burn the entire criminal world if that is what it takes to get her child back. Rafael, consumed by obsession, guilt, and a twisted form of devotion he cannot fully understand, grows more possessive the more he fears losing her. He cannot see her face — but he will kill anyone who dares to touch what belongs to him. In a city where loyalty is bought, love is a weakness, and blood is the only truth, a woman without a recognized face and a man who cannot see must fight their own past, their enemies, and each other to keep what little family they have left. Because in Rafael Tanque’s world… Even love can become a weapon.
ChoiSylvesterJung · 192 Views

So You Think Being an Immortal is Fun?

Noctyrr Vael is an immortal dragon who has lived long enough to watch empires rise, heroes fall, and entire races fade into memory. Once raised by heroes and feared as the strongest of all dragons, he abandoned the world after learning a simple truth: everything he protects will eventually disappear. Choosing isolation, he waits only for the day he can finally end his own existence. That resolve wavers when a human child is abandoned at the mountain where he resides. Unwilling to grow attached, Noctyrr attempts to give her away to his former comrades and long-lived allies. Each of them refuses—not out of cruelty, but fear. They have loved mortals before, and they know how it ends. With no one else willing to take her, the dragon becomes her guardian. As the years pass, the child grows unnaturally strong, wielding magic far beyond any human’s reach. Noctyrr pretends not to notice, convincing himself that this, too, is temporary. Yet time moves forward for her alone. She grows, fights, and is eventually claimed by the world as a hero, while the dragon can only watch from the sidelines. When her life finally comes to an end, Noctyrr is left behind once more—unchanged, unmoving, and burdened with every memory. Deciding that eternity has taken enough from him, he prepares to die. That is when fate intervenes again. This is not a story about saving the world, but about enduring it—about loving what will one day be lost, and the quiet tragedy of living long enough to remember everything.
Silent_Han · 962 Views