Burning The Syndicate For My Broken Girl

From the back cover

I was the daughter of a powerful Mafia Capo, but behind the grand estate doors, my parents treated me like a defective asset.

My only comfort in this brutal world was a stray kitten named Tangerine.

When my mother found out, she threw my kitten into a dumpster, and my father whipped my back with a heavy metal belt buckle for daring to shed a tear.

I fled to the Syndicate Academy for sanctuary, only to find everyone staring at me in terror.

My mother had weaponized our family's power.

She broadcasted forged medical documents to the entire underworld, diagnosing me with severe schizophrenia and violent delusions.

"She is completely detached from reality," my mother lied to the public.

No one believed my bloody wounds, and the Academy ordered me to be sent back to my abusers to be locked away forever.

I wasn't sick, I was just terrified of them.

Why did a system built on "honor" protect monsters who gaslit their own blood and called it discipline?

Stripped of all hope, I threw myself off the roof of the Academy to escape them.

But my story didn't end when my broken body hit the cold cobblestones.

Floating above my own corpse, I watched Dante, the most ruthless boss in the Syndicate, pick up my fractured phone.

He uncovered the truth, rescued my surviving kitten, and turned his lethal gaze toward my parents.

"I will protect your truth, even if I have to burn this whole city to the ground."