Chapter 1 - THE BEAST'S JUDGMENT
In a grand Manhattan ballroom glistening beneath multi-tiered crystal chandeliers, twelve daughters of New York’s most ruthless crime syndicates gathered in couture silk and diamond collars. Every family arrived hungering for the supreme prize: marriage to Frank Costello, the lethal kingpin of the East Coast underworld. Hardened, solitary, and widowed for three years after a car bombing that took his beloved wife, Frank shattered tradition with an icy declaration: he would not choose his bride. The decision belonged entirely to Titan, his ferocious, intuition-driven English bulldog renowned across the five boroughs for mauling traitors and sniffing out venomous intentions. While the wealthy debutantes postured, smiled, and pleaded with perfume-soaked whispers, the massive beast bypassed every heiress without a second glance. Instead, Titan trotted past the velvet ropes straight toward the trembling catering staff, collapsing peacefully at the worn sensible flats of Villa, an orphaned banquet waitress terrified of animals. As gasps tore through the hall and an enraged Don whispered a secret report into Frank’s ear, the mafia sovereign locked eyes with the trembling girl, prepared to ignite a blood war with a single decree.
