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Purchased by the Moretti Billionaire

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Billionaire, CEO
Last updated:
24 Oct 2026
Status:
Completed
Language:
English · 18+

When a forty-two-million-dollar forged debt threatens to crush Kensington Design Studio—Manhattan's most storied historical architectural firm—master conservator Aria Kensington faces total ruin. Enter Dante Moretti: the predatory Milanese billionaire venture capitalist known across Wall Street as 'The Apex.' Dante buys her debt at full face value and delivers an impossible ultimatum: live under his roof at his 18th-century palatial estate on Lake Como as his exclusive master architect, or watch her father's legacy auctioned off in bankruptcy court. Isolated in the breathtaking alpine splendor of Villa Bellisima, their battle of wills ignites into an all-consuming, scorching passion. But as corporate saboteurs strike and buried family secrets surface, Aria discovers the shocking truth: Dante didn't acquire her studio to destroy her—he bought it because she was the only woman capable of unlocking his guarded heart. Can she surrender to the billionaire who holds her empire in his hands?

Chapter 1

The Boardroom Predator

The October rain slashed diagonally across the sixty-story glass facade of the Manhattan Financial Center, turning the distant spire of the Chrysler Building into a blurred silhouette of iron and gray mist. Inside the mahogany-paneled boardroom of Kensington Design Studio, the air was thick with the scent of stale espresso, cold ozone from four laser printers, and the unmistakable stench of financial panic.

Aria Kensington sat at the head of the twenty-seat conference table, her knuckles whitening where she gripped the edge of the polished walnut surface. Her charcoal silk blouse and tailored pencil skirt were crisp, her dark honey-blonde hair pinned into an immaculate French twist, but beneath her calm, patrician exterior, her pulse hammered like a trapped bird against her ribs.

Spread before her were forty-eight pages of foreclosure notices, acceleration demands, and a demand promissory note bearing the forged signature of her late father, Arthur Kensington.

"It's a complete legal ambush, Aria," her senior counsel, Marcus Vance, said in a weary, hushed voice, pushing his rimless glasses up the bridge of his nose. "When Arthur passed away six months ago, we believed the studio's credit facility with Sovereign Trust was secured against the Tribeca warehouse assets. But your stepbrother, Julian, took out an unauthorized junior mezzanine lien of forty-two million dollars through a Cayman shell corporation. The note defaulted at midnight last night."

Aria drew a slow, shuddering breath, refusing to allow the two tears stinging her eyelashes to fall. "Julian embezzled forty-two million dollars and fled to Monaco, leaving me holding the debt of an eighty-year-old architectural firm? Marcus, Kensington Design is currently restoring the Morgan Library archives and designing three historical landmarks in Boston. Our backlog is worth ninety million! If Sovereign Trust liquidates us, three hundred craftsmen, draftsmen, and preservationists lose their livelihoods."

"Sovereign Trust didn't liquidate us," Marcus answered grimly, looking down at the legal notification in his trembling hands. "They sold the debt two hours ago. At full face value. The note was acquired by Moretti Global Holdings."

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Chapters
26
Words
45.9K
Free online
Ch 1–3
Status
Completed
Author
Alessandra De Luca & Julian Vance
Updated
24 Oct 2026

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When a forty-two-million-dollar forged debt threatens to crush Kensington Design Studio—Manhattan's most storied historical architectural firm—master conservator Aria Kensington faces total ruin. Enter Dante Moretti: the predatory Milanese billionaire venture capitalist known across Wall Street as 'The Apex.' Dante buy...

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26 chapters
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  2. 2. The Indecent Clause Free
  3. 3. The Cage of Silk Free
  4. 4. A Spark in the Shadows In app
  5. 5. The Met Gala Ambush In app
  6. 6. In the Back of the Maybach In app
  7. 7. Flight to Milan In app
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  9. 9. Lines in the Marble In app
  10. 10. Midnight in the Boathouse In app
  11. 11. The Lake Como Regatta In app
  12. 12. The Secret of the North Wing In app
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