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.

Only minutes earlier, she had been standing in the corridor; now she was lying on an emergency bed with blood staining her clothes, one hand pressed protectively against her abdomen as another wave of pain tightened through her body.


Dr. Elias moved the ultrasound probe carefully across her abdomen, his attention fixed on the monitor as he adjusted the angle several times. Santiago remained beside the bed, one hand firmly wrapped around Daniella's while his other rested against the edge of the mattress. His expression was controlled, but the tension in his jaw betrayed how closely he was watching the doctor's every movement.


Chapter 308 - Chapter 308; Emergency