Sold to My Ex's Godfather

Bianca Bell expects to marry Marco Russo inside her family's Las Vegas casino. Instead, she walks into a private debt auction. Marco has lost three hundred million dollars, forged Bianca's signature, mortgaged Belladonna, and listed her engagement as transferable collateral. He expects her to marry the highest bidder and remain the powerless public face of the casino. Marco's godfather, Dante Russo, seals the room, purchases every legitimate debt, and tears apart the forced engagement document. He makes one point clear: he bought debt, never Bianca. To prevent Marco from taking the casino and the family alliance at midnight, Bianca proposes a six-month protective marriage. Her assets remain separate, she may leave at any time, and Dante receives only limited security access while helping her recover Belladonna's cash, security, and alliance keys. Their public marriage requires convincing intimacy, while their private agreement requires explicit boundaries. Bank surveillance, a rigged alliance game, family dancing, shared oxygen inside a sealed vault, and hiding inside a narrow safe turn operational closeness into real desire. Dante must learn that protection never replaces Bianca's choice. Bianca must decide whether the dangerous man who raised her ex can be trusted with truth, power, and her body. The investigation reveals that Marco and Dante's former partner, Valeria, caused the vault explosion that killed Bianca's father. Marco launches a casino coup and uses edited intimate footage to threaten Bianca's license. Bianca pretends to return to him, hides a data copier in her engagement ring, and steals the financial records and murder plan required for a final counterattack. At a globally broadcast final game, Bianca wagers her casino control and forces Marco, Valeria, and the corrupt board to stake succession, alliance power, and proxy votes. The rules of the table compel them to expose the bombing, money laundering, forgery, and attempted murders in their own wor