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In a turning point set against dark, tension-filled warnings—violence, power imbalance, and morally grey stakes—he tells her to walk away and forget him, yet destiny pulls her toward an altar. The story blends slow-burn obsession with mafia-inflected danger, forced-marriage themes, and a conscience-driven spiral from before tonight to everything after.","ABAD HABIT CALLED CONSCIENCE  \nBad Habits Series · Book One  \nGenia Protas  \n© 2026 Genia Protas. All rights reserved.  \nThis work is the exclusive intellectual property ofthe author.  \nNo part of this book may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form without prior written permission of the author.  \n2026  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContent Warnings  \nThis book contains: dubious consent, violence, dark themes, steamy/sensual content, power imbalance.  \n18+ only  \nTropes: forced marriage · mafia don · morally grey MMC · possessive hero · slow burn · touch her and die  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPROLOGUE  \n— — —  \nThere are three things every ER nurse knows about blood.  \nThe smell hits first.  \nThen the weight of it —the particular warmth that means something living is losing the fight.  \nAnd third: you stop seeing it as a catastrophe.  \nYou see it as a problem with a solution.  \n— — —  \nI had blood on both hands, a man I didn't know bleeding out in my backseat, and the absolute certainty that my life had just split in two: before tonight, and everything after.  \nI didn't know his name yet.  \nI didn't know what he was .  \nI didn't know that in six weeks I would be standing at an altar in a dress worth more than my car, marrying him.  \nWhat I knew: his pulse was weak but present, the bleeding was venous, and he hadjust told me —with what I can only call unearned confidence for aman who couldn't even sit up —to walk away and forget I'd seen him.  \n\"Conscience,\" he'd said. \"A bad habit. \"  \nI pressed harder on the wound and drove faster.  \nSome habits are impossible to break.  \n— — —  \nSix weeks earlier.  \nCHAPTER 1  \nDeath, Taxes, and Steven  \n\"Diffidare degli uomini tranquilli.\" Beware of quiet men .—Italian proverb  \n— — —  \nIf bad dates were tax-deductible, I'd already own a penthouse in Manhattan. Instead, I was sitting in my secondhand Hyundai, trying to scrub the last two hours from my memory.  \nSteven. A data analyst with the soul of dried dill.  \nI was twenty-seven, and by every objective measure, my life was perfectly fine. My own little house in the suburbs. A dog named Buster —shelter rescue, the undisputed target of every small cousin at Sunday family dinners. And, not insignificantly, zero student debt. Thanks, Mom and Dad. The same mom and dad who watched me across the table every Sunday with that particular Italian hope that today, finally, I would announce I'd found someone . In their opinion, I was God's gift to any reasonable man . Mom had decided to bestow that gift on Steven. God only knows where she dug him up.  \nI'd spent forty minutes on perfect eyeliner. Another thirty on a blowout that was now drooping lifelessly in the humid night air. I'd picked the restaurant myself—strictly for the dessert menu. Warm amber light, basil and fresh bread, quiet Italian music you don't hear so much as feel. Chocolate fondant with raspberry sauce. I'd seen it on Instagram and thought about nothing else all week. That was the only reason I'd agreed to this date.  \nSteven asked to move away from the kitchen. Too noisy.  \nHe turned out to be exactly what his photos suggested —neat, correct, and absolutely nothing. He ordered a lactose-free latte and asked the waiter to remove the bread basket because —and I quote — \"gluten is a silent killer. \" The waiter removed it with the expression of a man who had seen things. I said a silent goodbye to the bread.  \nThen came the monologue about crypto alpacas. I hadn't known what those were before tonight, and now I genuinely mourned my former ignorance. Then he explained how Bitcoin works —slowly, with pauses, the way you explain things to small children —though I hadn't asked. Then he corrected my pronunciation of a wine name. A French wine. In an Italian restaurant.  \nWhen the dessert menu arrived, I looked at the fondant and felt something die inside me .  \n\"Dessert?\" the waiter asked.  \n\"No, thank you,\" I said.  \nSteven gave an approving nod. 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