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Luca had lost his mind entirely. In the cell, he screamed and threw himself at the walls until he wasn't recognizable anymore.Donato wasn't willing to let it drag on. He gave the order that night.They took Luca out and it was done. His body was dropped at a pauper's grave on the outskirts of the city — no name, no marker. That was the family's last destination for traitors and men who made themselves into problems.Lila survived, barely. The doctors worked through the night and managed to pull her through. But the child was gone. She cried for three days and three nights.On the fourth day, she came to find me to say goodbye.She had decided to leave Sicily. There was a small convent in the north, near Milan. She was going there and she wouldn't be coming back.Before she left, she looked at me for a long time, and I couldn't read what was in her face."Sofia. Thank you for not turning your back on me completely."I kept my expression neutral. "Go. And don't come back."Had I forgive
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In the end, Donato carried out the sentence.The night before it was done, I went down to see Luca one last time.He was in a dim, wet cell, stretched out on the floor with empty eyes. The guard unlocked the door and stepped back.When Luca saw me come in, he forced himself up. I could see then that there was blood on the ground beneath him — Rocco's work, most likely.He managed a stiff, broken smile. "Fia. You came. You're actually here." A beat. "I heard it's raining outside again. How's your back?"I looked at his bloodshot eyes and let out a slow breath. "Tomorrow they'll carry out the sentence. I came because there are things I need to ask you."A short, empty laugh. "I figured. Go ahead."I kept my voice flat. "I don't believe I ever gave you a reason to treat me the way you did. So why."He laughed quietly, bitterly, and closed his eyes. A long stretch of silence.Then, finally: "Because I loved you too much. Too completely."I almost laughed. I couldn't imagine those words com
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Rocco worked Luca over with the iron gloves until he was barely standing, then the men dragged him back and left him at the Galvani gate.Lila ran out when she heard the commotion. Her smile died the moment she saw him."What happened? What happened to him?"Luca had been holding on through sheer stubbornness. When he saw her face, he coughed up blood and passed out.The estate went into chaos.By evening, Lila came in with medicine. Luca was lying on his back, staring at the ceiling, still muttering: "It's not real. It's fake. It has to be fake."She got the story out of him eventually, and the bowl of medicine slipped from her hands."How? She sneaked in on her own. How does a woman like that end up as the Don's woman?"She stared in the direction of Naples, and something cold and calculating passed through her eyes.Impossible. She ran off with a man, threw everything away. Donato Ferrara would never put a woman like that beside him.Then something occurred to her, and her mouth cur
He Chose Childhood Sweetheart, I Married the Don Chapter 7
The next morning, Luca showed up at the estate's front hall asking for a meeting.I had just finished adjusting Donato's jacket when I looked up and saw the Don watching me with a slight smile."Why are you looking at me like that?"He touched the top of my head, voice softer than usual. "It just feels like something I used to think would never happen."I didn't know what to make of that.Then he said: "The young man from the Galvani family sent word this morning. He wants to ask me for something. He's probably in the front hall by now. Come with me."I nodded.When we walked in, Luca was waiting. Without Donato's permission, he didn't dare look up."I present myself to the Don, and to..."The words stopped. His head lifted slowly. He was looking at me, standing at Donato's side.Donato's face gave nothing away. His voice landed like weight. "You had something to ask me. Ask."Luca stared at the floor for a long moment, then he said. "Don, could you give me Sophia Caldwell as a kept wo
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The morning after we arrived in Naples was the Ferrara family's oath ceremony, the largest transfer of power the southern mob network had seen in decades.Armed guards lined every street in the city. Nobody was getting in or out without a reason.I wore a deep-red dress fitted to order and accepted the family's signet ring with both hands.The ceremony required Don Donato and me to stand together before every representative of every allied family and swear the pact — a formal transfer of power, a binding.Luca and Lila had no standing here. They were in the outer ring with everyone else, heads bowed.Donato took my hand and leaned in. "Focus."I looked up at him. My eyes were clear. "Yes, Don."He hesitated for a moment.The morning after the ceremony, Donato and I were hosting a banquet for the heads of the allied families.Two glasses in and I was already lightheaded. I'm not much of a drinker.I slipped away, changed into something plain, and went out to the garden in the inner cour
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It took close to two months of travel before we reached a private villa on the outskirts of Naples.I had a wide-brimmed hat pulled low and Carmen beside me as I came through the door.A familiar voice came from behind me."Excuse me, miss, you remind me very much of someone I know. Have we met somewhere?"I stopped walking. That voice. No question it was Luca.When I didn't respond, Carmen stepped in front of him and shoved him back."Back off. Do you have any idea who you're bothering right now? You couldn't afford to find out."Carmen was the maid I had chosen myself, quick and decisive, with the kind of calm that comes from having seen a lot of the world. She knew how to handle things.Luca's smile went stiff. He apologized awkwardly and retreated.As he walked away, he murmured to the woman beside him: "You must have been seeing things. Sofia's probably still sitting in that cellar. Besides, did you see the way that woman carries herself? Nothing like that washed-out mess."The wo
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