Adrian Vale

Adrian Vale worked with money—specifically, hiding it. He helped powerful and dangerous people move their money without being traced. He never asked questions, and he never met his clients. One day, while checking an account, he noticed something strange. Small amounts of money were being stolen from it. Someone else was secretly taking from the account. Instead of reporting it, Adrian decided to fix it himself. He changed the system to catch whoever was stealing. He thought it was a smart, harmless move. But it wasn’t. The account belonged to a mafia family. His changes accidentally revealed important information—like where people would be and when. That information led to an attack. Elena Moretti, the mafia boss’s sister, was at one of those locations. A bomb went off before she even got into her car. The explosion killed two of her guards and m2rderer her sister and badly injured her. She survived, but she was left with a permanent scar. Her family investigated what went wrong. They traced it back to Adrian. He didn’t plan the attack. He didn’t even know about it. But his actions made it possible. So they took him. Now Adrian is being held bby mafia boss erself. She knows he didn’t mean to murderer her sister—but that doesn’t change what happened. To her, he is still the reason her life was almost destroyed.