First Love's Return, Heiress Strikes Back

Chapter 432

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Sure, she was stunning, but there were so many pretty women out there. Why was Lennon so hopelessly entranced by her?

When his men had captured Mariela and brought her before him, no one had mentioned that she knew how to fight.

And when they dragged Mariela upstairs, she had been pale as a ghost, trembling with fear. To Nikolas, she had seemed no different from any other fragile, pampered rich girl, who was obsessed with romance. They would just be terrified at the first sign of trouble, endlessly weeping and utterly insufferable.

He had never expected her to have the guts to charge at him, let alone possess actual combat skills.

Nikolas had grown up under the wing of a mafia godfather in Italy. The training he went through was beyond what an ordinary person could endure.

an uninhabited island

had been thrown into an underground fight pit, forced into life–or–death battles against savage

victorious, he was rewarded with his first armed unit, his force. From then on, he carried out his godfather’s dirty work, waging war against rival gangs, slaughtering and looting, all while undergoing the same rigorous military training as elite mercenaries.

had

power grown so formidable that he

taken over as the leader of the largest

not someone Mariela

a person was consumed by rage and has nothing to

at that

would walk

herself be violated by that pack of vile, depraved