Title: The Cost of His Pride
Read the storyNaomi Brooks is a broke college student working double shifts at a diner, in love with Luca De Santis—a bouncer she thinks is just as strapped as she is. But Luca is the billionaire heir to Sicily’s most feared Mafia dynasty, and his poverty act is a test to ensure she loves him for real. She passes, never asking for a dime, even when her tuition is due or her body gives out from exhaustion. Then she collapses at work, bleeding. Pregnant. Needing $1,000 for treatment. She calls Luca, but he coldly refuses and hangs up before she can explain. Minutes later, anonymous texts expose his fortune, his empire, and a photo of him with another woman. Naomi saves the pregnancy herself. When Luca returns, she treats him like a stranger—and he never realizes his own pride cost him the family he never knew he had.