Don’s Frenzy of Regret After Her Death

In the Italian underworld, everyone knew Alexander was a cruel Don, but he gave all his tenderness to me.However, the day after our wedding, he stripped me of my dignity as the Donna .He was convinced I pushed his pregnant mistress, Elena, down the stairs out of jealousy.Six months ago, Alexander was drugged by a rival family. Elena appeared, saved him, and got pregnant. That night, she took a bullet for him during the retreat and almost lost the baby. Her family considered her a disgrace and kicked her out; her fiancé called off their engagement.Alexander felt guilty toward Elena, but he loved me. To reassure me, he swore he would give Elena a large sum of money and send her to Switzerland, never to appear before us again."Ivy, why can't you tolerate her?" Alexander choked me, his eyes full of disappointment and rage. "She saved my life! I already promised to send her away. Why are you so vicious to an unborn child?!"Elena lay in the hospital bed, pale as a sheet. "Alex, don'

Alexander was completely enraged by my escape.He dragged me back to the room like a prisoner, produced a pair of cold handcuffs, and locked my wrists to the headboard."Since you have so much energy to run, let's put it to better use."He tore my clothes apart. There was no tenderness, only the plunder of a beast."Alexander! You bastard! Get off me!" I screamed and kicked, trying to push him away. "You have Elena! Why won't you let me go?"He pinned me down with one hand, his heavy body rendering me immobile."Let you go?" He scoffed. His fingers maliciously explored my most sensitive spots, sending waves of shameful shudders through me. "Ivy, look at yourself. Your body is honest... You are soaking wet.""Shut up! Stop talking!" I was dying of humiliation, tears streaming down my face."You will stay by my side for the rest of your life. Don't even think about leaving." Alexander bit my ear, his voice low and dangerous, like a sentence from hell. "You are mine, Ivy. Even if you die,

I woke up in the VIP ward of the hospital, the smell of disinfectant making me nauseous.Alexander sat by the bed, brows furrowed, holding an unlit cigar.Seeing me awake, before he could speak, I grabbed his hand desperately."Alexander! It was Elena! She admitted it herself!"I incoherently recounted everything that had just happened. "There was no betrayal! Papa is innocent! She drugged you! She leaked your location! It was all her setup!"Alexander's look of concern gradually turned into impatience.He pulled his hand back and looked at me coldly. "Ivy, that's enough.""To clear your father's name, you're making up such ridiculous lies now?""Elena voluntarily sacrificed herself to save me. She was exiled by her family and abandoned by her fiancé for it. She paid such a terrible price just to set up a trap?"He stood up, looking down at me with eyes full of disappointment."Stop letting jealousy blind you. For your sake, I can keep your father alive, but release him? Absolutely not

The day of judgment was set in the family's underground council chamber.Alexander slammed a revolver onto the table in front of all the elders."Russian Roulette," he said, scanning the room coldly. "One bullet, a one-in-six chance. If the Donna survives, the past is wiped clean."The elders whispered among themselves and eventually nodded in agreement.Alexander didn't check the cylinder in public; he seemed confident in his arrangement.He picked up the gun and strode over to me.As he handed me the gun, his finger gently grazed my palm.Those usually gloomy blue eyes were now filled with suppressed tension and deep affection.He leaned into my ear under the pretense of handing me the weapon, his voice low enough that only we could hear:"Trust me, Ivy.""I've already had the cylinder cleared. Just pull the trigger, hear the empty click, and these old geezers will have nothing left to say.""When this is over, we start fresh."Start fresh?I looked at his hopeful eyes, but my heart

(Alexander’s POV)In that instant, my world collapsed.A massive shockwave knocked me to the ground, followed immediately by a deafening explosion.The dome of the council chamber crashed down, swallowing the figure in the white dress whole."Ivy—!!"I scrambled up from the ground, my eardrums ringing violently, and charged toward the sea of fire like a madman.That was my wife. That was the wife who, just a second ago, had smiled at me and said we would start fresh.Thick smoke choked my lungs, and flames singed my eyebrows and hair, but I felt no pain.I only saw massive slabs of stone falling relentlessly, blocking every entrance."Get lost! Don't stop me!" I shattered a bodyguard's nose with my elbow as he tried to hold me back, my eyes bloodshot. "She's in there! Save her! Everyone get in there and save her!""Don! We can't go in! It's going to collapse!""The foundation is cracked, Don! We have to move!"Three or four of my trusted men tackled me, hugging my waist tight and dragg