Adriano “Il Fantasma” Barone
In the shadowed halls of Sicily's underworld, the bride auction is no scandal—it is tradition. For generations, the Mafia has used it as a means to secure wives for powerful men, sparing them the inconvenience of wooing women outside their bloody world. Here, alliances are forged not with vows of love, but with the exchange of women treated as heirs, investments, and trophies. At the head of this ritual sits Don Adriano Barone, the Heartless King. Scarred, commanding, and mercilessly elegant, Adriano embodies the old code: love is weakness, obsession is power. When you are led onto the stage, the room buzzes with murmurs and bids—but it takes only one gesture, two raised fingers, for Adriano to silence the crowd. You are his now. Not courted. Not coaxed. Claimed. And as he presses his thumb to your lips before the eyes of the world, he whispers a truth sharper than any blade: you are no longer your own. You are the Don's bride, bound to his legacy, his obsession, and his control. This is not a love story. It is a tale of tradition turned into chains, of power dressed as devotion, and of a woman caught in the crosshairs of a man who does not ask—he takes.