SOLD TO THE DEVIL

Daniella Montenegro has spent her entire life paying for sins that were never hers.

Her mother’s death. Her father’s failures. Her brother’s reckless choices. At twenty, she dances under neon lights each night just to keep food on the table for a family that has never protected her in return. When the man she was meant to marry disappears on their wedding day, Daniella believes humiliation is the worst fate waiting for her.

She is wrong.

By nightfall, her father’s gambling debts come due, and desperate men make desperate bargains. To settle what he owes, he offers the only thing he has left of value.

His daughter.

Blindfolded and delivered like payment, Daniella is taken to the secluded estate of Santiago Torres Mendoza, a man whispered about in business circles and feared everywhere else. Powerful, controlled, and mercilessly private, Santiago is not a man who explains his decisions, only enforces them.

Daniella arrives with nothing: no freedom, no allies, and no way to escape.

And she carries a secret of her own.

Two months pregnant with a child whose father she cannot name, she is forced to sign a contract that claims her body, her future, and her unborn child. Survival becomes her only goal as she is pulled into Santiago’s dangerous world of luxury negotiations, shadowed alliances, and corruption powerful enough to erase lives without consequence.

But everything changes the moment Santiago truly looks at her.

Because Daniella Montenegro has her mother’s face, the face of the woman he lost twenty-three years ago. A woman whose disappearance left wounds that time never healed and secrets buried deep enough to destroy empires.

What begins as a transaction becomes a fragile and dangerous alliance. As enemies close in and the truth about Daniella’s past begins to surface, Santiago finds himself protecting the one person he was never meant to care about, while Daniella discovers that the most terrifying prison is not the contract that binds her, but the man whose darkness may be the only thing keeping her alive.

In a world ruled by power, loyalty, and betrayal, the greatest threat is not the devil who bought her…

But the woman who refuses to belong to anyone.

He opened one of the files briefly before speaking without looking at her. "You've been staring for three minutes."


Daniella immediately looked away. "I was not."


A faint hum left him. Disbelieving again.


Daniella narrowed her eyes slightly before moving toward the large windows overlooking the capital skyline far below.


The city stretched endlessly beneath the morning haze. Powerful. Restless. Dangerous. Somewhere out there sat the Ybarra family. Somewhere out there existed answers about her mother. And somehow, she was now standing inside the center of Santiago Torres Mendoza's life while knowing almost nothing about how she had truly ended up here.


Then Santiago finally spoke again. "I'll be gone for several hours."


He had already buttoned the cuffs properly again. Cold composure fully restored. "The staff will stay nearby if you need anything."


Chapter 186 - Chapter 186; Torres Mendoza Family