Six years ago, I was Isabella “Bella” Marino — 165 pounds, on grief meds, working off my dead father’s debt as a personal assistant to the Moretti heir.
Then one drunken night, I grabbed the wrong keycard and gave the boy I loved my first time — only to hear his crew laugh the next morning that the card was meant for the other Bella.
I ran.
I remade myself.
Now I’m Lena Rose, a rising actress, and my film is stuck at review.
My manager drags me to a private club to beg the man who can save it.
He’s Don Moretti now.
And he remembers everything.
The Don Bows Only To His Curvy Crush Chapter 15 The Girl With Two Names Dragging up my past the same week I got nominated — that wasn’t a coincidence. Somebody paid for it. Moretti Pictures’ legal team moves fast. Inside seventy-two hours they’ve traced the payments back through three shell accounts to their source.
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The Don Bows Only To His Curvy Crush Chapter 14 The Nomination and the Storm Funny how life works. “One Night in Rome” premieres. And just like the film that made Ryan Cole famous, it explodes online — reviews, think pieces, everyone talking. Off the back of it, I get nominated for ‘Best Newcomer’ at
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The Don Bows Only To His Curvy Crush Chapter 13 The Man Who Owns the Table “Is she going to do something?” I murmur, watching her go. Dante turns my face toward him and drops a kiss on my mouth. “Worried about a rival?” I pull back. “That’s not what I meant. Will she run
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The Don Bows Only To His Curvy Crush Chapter 12 The Cannoli at the Door I wake up to the doorbell. Dante’s already up, in the bathroom. I drag myself out of bed, still half-asleep, and shuffle to the door. The second I pull it open, a voice slaps me in the face. “Dante! Look
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The Don Bows Only To His Curvy Crush Chapter 11 The Lights Off, The Truth On The door clicks shut behind us. Dante reaches for the light switch. I catch his wrist. “Leave it off. I’m — I don’t want you to see me.” He’s told me everything tonight. But it still doesn’t erase six
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The Don Bows Only To His Curvy Crush Chapter 10 The Keycard He Placed Himself Dante’s words drop me into a world that doesn’t feel real. I swallow hard, throat tight. “Don’t mess with me. That’s — that’s not possible…” “Why isn’t it?” He pulls back just enough to look at me. Dead serious. “You
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The Don Bows Only To His Curvy Crush Chapter 09 The Name Only He Knows My legs go to lead. I stop where I stand. Cold blooms up through my ribs, wave after wave. I don’t know when Dante figured out it was me. Maybe just now. Maybe weeks ago. Maybe from the very first
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The Don Bows Only To His Curvy Crush Chapter 08 The Married Man and the Sit-Down The backseat is a pressure cooker. I can feel Dante being furious. What I can’t figure out is what he’s furious about. We’ve never held hands. We’ve never called this anything. There’s no line for me to have crossed.
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The Don Bows Only To His Curvy Crush Chapter 07 The Studio, The Star, The Warning Marnie can’t wrap her head around it. “What is Dante Moretti’s angle?” “Introduces you to directors, clears your film through the Commission — then just drops you at your door?” “That is not normal. That is deeply not normal.”
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The Don Bows Only To His Curvy Crush Chapter 06 The Fake ID and the Ride Home My heart yanks up into my throat. He hasn’t said a word about it all night. So I let myself think he’d forgotten. Now here it is, out of nowhere, with the safety off. I swallow the panic
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