LOGINShare
CHAPTER SIXTY NINE
publish date:
2026-04-23 21:11:09
Latest chapter
HIS BUTTERFLY (BETWEEN TWO DONS) CHAPTER SEVENTY THREE ~~
“SOAK MY HAND LIKE A GOOD GIRL.”SOFIA.Although Dante seemed to act like everything was okay, I knew he hated seeing my kiss Marco even if it was an accident. He even broke the glass in his hand. I really didn’t mean to drop the paper and kiss Marco and I don’t think he meant to do so either, but now all I could think about was the injury on Dante’s hand and what he was planning. The family gathering at Marco’s parents’ house was still in full swing when my phone vibrated in my clutch. I excused myself from the conversation with one of Marco’s aunts, heart already sinking as I slipped into the quieter hallway near the powder room.Dante’s text glowed on the screen.Grand Palace Hotel. Presidential suite. Now.A second message followed almost immediately.**If you aren’t standing in front of me in ten minutes, I will put a bullet in Marco’s head. Don’t test me tonight, Sofia.**My stomach dropped. I knew that tone, even through text. He wasn’t bluffing. Not after what he’d witnessed
HIS BUTTERFLY (BETWEEN TWO DONS) CHAPTER SEVENTY TWO
ONE WEEK LATER."Jealousy is just love with nowhere to go and no way to breathe."DANTEI am in a good mood when I arrive.That should have been my first warning. Good moods have never lasted long in my life and by now I should know better than to trust them.The drive to Marco's parents' house takes forty minutes from the estate and I spend most of it with the window down, one arm resting on the door, actually enjoying the Italian countryside rolling past in the late afternoon gold. The meeting this morning went well. The alliances are solidifying. The succession vote is closer than it's ever been and every calculation I'm running puts me exactly where I need to be.And Sofia is here.That is the part my brain keeps coming back to. She is forty minutes ahead of me in a car with Marco and his parents and Isabella and in a few minutes I will be in the same room as her again and that simple fact has been sitting warm in my chest the entire drive.I told you. Good mood. Should have known
HIS BUTTERFLY (BETWEEN TWO DONS) CHAPTER SEVENTY ONE
"The cruelest thing about wanting a life that isn't yours is how clearly you can see exactly what it would look like."DANTEThe meeting runs forty minutes longer than it should.By the time I shake the last hand and walk the last Don to his car and watch the last black vehicle disappear down the estate's long driveway, my jaw aches from holding the same composed expression for three hours straight and I want nothing more than coffee and quiet.I loosen my tie as I walk back through the main entrance. Nico falls into step beside me briefly, already running through the afternoon's outcomes in that efficient way he has — who committed, who hedged, who needs more pressure, who is already secured.I let him talk. I process it. I give the necessary responses.But my mind is already elsewhere.It keeps doing that lately.Finding its way back to them.—----------------------Everywhere was quiet, really quiet. I couldn't hear Isabella constantly fighting with luca or laughing at a stupid jok
HIS BUTTERFLY (BETWEEN TWO DONS) CHAPTER SEVENTY
“IT IS TIMES LIKE THESE I CHERISH THE MOST.”SOFIA.I am still in my clothes — a light cotton dress, no shoes — which in retrospect was my first mistake because I should have known the moment I got within three feet of the water what was going to happen.I crouch at the edge, intending to sit and dangle my feet in. A reasonable compromise.Dante is right there.He looks up at me from the water, the morning light doing things to his face that are genuinely unfair, and his dark eyes are warm and full of everything from last night and he reaches up and takes my hand."Dante—" I start."Don't," he says. Almost gently."I'm still dressed—""Sofia.""I have a dress on—"He pulls me in.The water hits me all at once, cool and clean and completely shocking, and I surface sputtering and absolutely furious for about two seconds before Isabella's laughter hits me and then I cannot maintain the furious face at all."Dante!" I push wet hair out of my eyes.He is grinning. Fully, properly grinning,
HIS BUTTERFLY (BETWEEN TWO DONS) CHAPTER SIXTY NINE
"The most painful lies are the ones we tell to protect the people we love the most."SOFIAI hear them before I see them.Isabella's laugh first — that big, uncontained laugh she has that she gets from absolutely no one on my side of the family because none of us have ever laughed like that in our lives. Free and loud and completely unbothered by who might hear it. Then Dante's voice, lower, saying something I can't quite make out, followed immediately by an enormous splash and Isabella screaming with delight.I step out onto the terrace with my coffee still in my hand and stop. We were now back home.The pool at the house is long and blue and catching the morning light in a way that makes everything look warm and a little dreamlike. Isabella is in the shallow end, her dark curls soaked flat against her head, absolutely beside herself with laughter. She is six years old and she has never once in her life been afraid of water and right now she is using that fearlessness to splash Dante
HIS BUTTERFLY (BETWEEN TWO DONS) CHAPTER SIXTY EIGHT
Seven years ago.“YOU BROKE ME FIRST.”SOFIA.I wake up alone.This part I remember with a clarity that has never faded, not in seven years, not through everything that came after. The particular quality of that morning light. The particular feeling of reaching across the bed and finding nothing.His side is cold. Not just empty — cold. He has been gone for a while.I sit up. Look around the apartment. His shoes are gone. His jacket. I find the note on the pillow and read it once. Family emergency. Be back soon.I'm not worried, not at first. Families have emergencies. He loves me. He will come back.I get up. Make coffee. Sit by the window and watch the street below and wait.He doesn't come.I call his phone. It rings four times and goes to voicemail. His voice, warm and familiar, asking me to leave a message."It's me," I say, because I don't know what else to say. "Just checking you're okay. Call me when you can."He doesn't call.Day one I tell myself he's busy. Family crises are
HIS BUTTERFLY (BETWEEN TWO DONS) CHAPTER FORTY FOUR
“DON’T JUDGE OTHER BECAUSE THEY SIN DIFFERENTLY FROM YOU.”SOFIA.I step out of the coat room on shaky legs, my body still humming with unfulfilled need, my mind screaming at me for being so reckless.And there he is.Marco.Standing in the hallway. Holding two glasses of champagne. His expression
HIS BUTTERFLY (BETWEEN TWO DONS) CHAPTER THIRTY THREE
“AND IN THE MIDDLE OF MY CHAOS THERE WAS YOU.”SOFIA.Marco's voice.Reality crashes back like ice water.My eyes fly open, meeting Dante's. His are dark, dilated, filled with heat and want and something that looks like possession."Dante, stop—" I try to push him away but he doesn't move."Why?" H
HIS BUTTERFLY (BETWEEN TWO DONS) CHAPTER THIRTY TWO ~ ️
“SO FUCKING WEAK WHEN IT COMES TO HIM.”SOFIA.The please almost breaks me. I close my eyes, pressing my forehead against the door."You heard Luca yesterday. You know the truth now. You know I didn't abandon you.""It doesn't matter." The words are barely a whisper."How can you say that?" His voi
HIS BUTTERFLY (BETWEEN TWO DONS) CHAPTER THIRTY ONE
“TOUCH ME LIKE YOU ARE STARVING AND ALL YOU CAN CRAVE IS ME.”SOFIA.I'm trying to avoid him.Again.It's becoming a pattern. Wake up before dawn. Sneak downstairs. Wait until he leaves. Go about my day while making sure I'm never alone in a room with him.Especially after last night.God, last nig
You may also like
MAFIA'S ANGEL
Bunnykoo203.0K viewsMafia Men IV - Vincenzo's Temptation
Janedoewritings162.9K viewsHis Sweet Bella
BlueDreams547.7K viewsDom and little Academy
Cendrillon1996131.3K viewsEmpire Of Sin: Chained To Him
Mystery647 viewsContract for Lust
Sammy 383 viewsSold To The Dying Mafia King
Cardywrites696 viewsMarried The Wrong Groom
JulyanWrites10.4K views
