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Chapter 157

Author: Prettyvillan
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WHAT I CAN CONTROL

"The worst lies are the ones we tell ourselves for protection."

~ LAUREN'S POV ~

The pregnancy test sat in my purse like a heavy weight.

Three days since I had taken it. Three days of carrying this secret that felt too big for my body, too real for the nightmare my life had become.

I knocked on Sophia's door at 2 PM, when I knew she would be working from home, and I knew I wouldn't have to pretend to be functional in public anymore.

She took one look at my face and pulled me inside.

"Jesus, Lauren. You look like you haven't slept since Christmas."

"Close." I collapsed on her familiar couch, breathing in vanilla and safety. "Can we just... talk? About normal things? Like we used to?"

So we did. For twenty minutes, we talked about her new client, about the book she was reading, about whether we were too old to still eat cereal for dinner.

Normal best friend things that felt like medicine.

Until I excused myself to use her bathroom and everything I'd been holding toge
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  • A Mafia’s Trillionaire for Christmas    Chapter 157

    WHAT I CAN CONTROL"The worst lies are the ones we tell ourselves for protection."~ LAUREN'S POV ~The pregnancy test sat in my purse like a heavy weight.Three days since I had taken it. Three days of carrying this secret that felt too big for my body, too real for the nightmare my life had become.I knocked on Sophia's door at 2 PM, when I knew she would be working from home, and I knew I wouldn't have to pretend to be functional in public anymore.She took one look at my face and pulled me inside."Jesus, Lauren. You look like you haven't slept since Christmas.""Close." I collapsed on her familiar couch, breathing in vanilla and safety. "Can we just... talk? About normal things? Like we used to?"So we did. For twenty minutes, we talked about her new client, about the book she was reading, about whether we were too old to still eat cereal for dinner. Normal best friend things that felt like medicine.Until I excused myself to use her bathroom and everything I'd been holding toge

  • A Mafia’s Trillionaire for Christmas    Chapter 156

    EXPOSURE"The truth has a way of surfacing when you least expect it to breathe."~ LAUREN'S POV ~The bathroom tiles were cold against my bare feet. I stared at the small white box in my hands, wondering when my life had become a series of moments I wasn't ready for.Two pink lines. Clear as daylight. Clear as the nausea that had been my constant companion for weeks.Pregnant.I wrapped the test in tissue and buried it deep in the bathroom trash, then sat on the edge of the tub and tried to process what this meant.A baby. Alexandro's baby. Growing inside me while our world crumbled around us.The timing was catastrophic. Viktor hunting us. Julian circling like a vulture. Alexandro keeping secrets that grew bigger every day. And now this.I pressed my hands to my still-flat stomach and tried to imagine explaining this to anyone. To Sophia. To my parents. To Emily, who would probably demand to know if I had lost my mind.To Alexandro, who looked at me now like he was trying to solve a

  • A Mafia’s Trillionaire for Christmas    Chapter 155

    FRACTURES"Sometimes the cracks appear long before the breaking point."~ ALEXANDRO'S POV ~The call came at 7 AM. Financial irregularities. Someone had been digging through Castello Enterprises' aid accounts for the past week.I stood at my office window, phone pressed to my ear, watching the city wake up below while my world threatened to collapse above."How deep?" I asked Dino, my head of security."Deep enough to find the shipping contracts. The ones from 2019."The ones Leonardo had fucked up. The ones that left us vulnerable to exactly this kind of investigation."Julian?""Has to be. The digital fingerprints match his usual team. Sophisticated but sloppy around the edges."I hung up and immediately called Leonardo. He picked up on the fourth ring, sounding like he had been asleep for three days."Alex?""Your mess just became my crisis. Someone's in our financial records because of those contracts you botched three years ago."Silence. Then a heavy sigh. "Fuck. I'm sorry. I th

  • A Mafia’s Trillionaire for Christmas    Chapter 154

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  • A Mafia’s Trillionaire for Christmas    Chapter 153

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  • A Mafia’s Trillionaire for Christmas    Chapter 152

    A BROTHER'S SHADOW"Some men spend their whole lives trying to step out of shadows that were never really there."~ LEONARDO JNR'S POV ~The call came at 4 AM. I was already awake, staring at the ceiling of my shitty studio apartment in Queens, counting water stains and wondering how I had ended up here."He knows," Pedro said without preamble. My fixer never wasted words. "Your brother knows you've been sniffing around the shipping manifests again."I sat up, running a hand through hair that hadn't been washed in three days. "How much does he know?""Enough. He's got people watching you now. Real ones, not the babysitters he used to send."I laughed, but it came out hollow. "Babysitters. Christ, is that what he called them?""Leo….""I'm not a fucking child, Pedro. I'm twenty-eight years old. I've got an MBA from Wharton and three years of real experience in logistics. But to Alexandro, I'm still just Leonardo junior fuck-up son who can't be trusted with anything important."Pedro wa

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