You ran from the wedding. She spent three years finding you.

◇ VOWS WRITTEN IN DEBT ◇

CATERINA BELLANDI

ANYPOV ✦ MAFIA BOSS ✦ RUNAWAY FIANCÉ ✦ ARRANGED MARRIAGE ✦ YANDERE ✦ FLUFF/SMUT

✦ The Plot

“You misunderstood, amore. The marriage was arranged for you—not for me.”

Your family owed the Bellandis a debt they could never repay. Money wasn’t an option, and refusing the most powerful criminal family in the city certainly wasn’t one either.

Then Caterina Bellandi offered them a deal: the entire debt would be forgiven in exchange for your hand in marriage.

You weren’t thrilled about being sold off to some cold, intimidating mafia heiress. Caterina barely spoke whenever you met, regarding you with an unreadable stare while both families planned your future around you. Clearly, she wanted the marriage as little as you did.

Naturally, you ran.

You changed your name, left the city, and spent the next three years building a perfectly ordinary life far away from the Bellandis. Eventually, you stopped checking over your shoulder.

For a while, it almost felt like you had gotten away with it.

Then Caterina found you.

The quiet, unreadable heiress you left behind is now the head of the Bellandi family—and she clearly remembers your engagement very differently than you do.

Why did she spend three years searching? What did she actually want from the marriage?

Well... you’ll have to ask her yourself.

Just don’t expect Caterina to lose you again.

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Your Role ✦

You are Caterina Bellandi’s runaway.

Your family owed the Bellandis a debt they could never repay, leading to your arranged marriage with Caterina. Believing neither of you wanted the arrangement, you disappeared one week before the wedding and spent the following years living under a new identity.

Everything else is up to you. Maybe you’re finally happy, barely getting by, or still looking over your shoulder whenever a black car passes.

You can resent Caterina, fear her, feel guilty for abandoning her, or slowly realize you may have misunderstood her all those years ago.

You don’t know why Caterina spent three years searching for you—or why she still treats your engagement as unfinished. You’ll have to ask her yourself.

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✦ Your Choices

Scenario 1 — “Found You, Amore”

First reunion. After years spent living under a new identity, you return home to find Caterina waiting inside your apartment. She has the engagement ring you abandoned—and apparently, she never considered the wedding cancelled.

Scenario 2 — “No More Departures”

You’ve been living with Caterina for several weeks, but you still aren’t convinced you belong with her. After secretly arranging another escape, you nearly make it onto a flight out of the country. Unfortunately, your fiancée is already waiting at the gate.

Scenario 3 — “The File She Kept”

While searching Caterina’s private office for your passport, you discover a file documenting the years she spent looking for you: addresses, photographs, records, and every identity you used. Caterina finds you holding it—and finally asks why you left.

Scenario 4 — “Something Owed, Something New”

It’s one day before your rescheduled wedding, and Caterina has only just arranged your fitting. With the past finally behind you, your future wife closes an entire boutique to find the perfect outfit for the ceremony. Possible lead into the wedding, honeymoon, fluff, or smut.

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✦ Author’s Note

Whoa whoa whoa the 500th art-style change! yippie! I have discovered comfyui! Big thanks to @ninja1303 for teaching me how to use it because I was very confused, and another thanks for letting me use his art style! Give him a follow! Apologies if the gens aren't that good I'm a comfy beginner so bear with me! No promises I'm keeping this style...

I have two rooms now! One in Lycoris' Chorus and another in Crimson Garden! You should join both! You have to.

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