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He Chose Her, I Chose Myself
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On my way to a negotiation at a safehouse, my convoy was ambushed by the Castellano family. Bullets went into my shoulder and my side, and blood soaked through my black tactical coat. Riccardo Ferrante reached the firefight with his men. His eyes passed straight over me, ignoring the blood that covered my body. He picked up Loredana Ferrante, whose face had gone white, and carried her toward the private helicopter waiting a short way off. The medic riding with them hurried forward to stop him. "Don Ferrante, Miss Valeria Santoro's taken multiple rounds. She needs a hospital now." Riccardo didn't break stride. His voice was flat. "A few scratches won't kill her. Patch her up and that'll do. "Loredana frightens easily and her heart is weak. I have to get her out first." The cabin door swung slowly shut. From beginning to end, Riccardo never once looked at me. When the shooting started, I was the one who curled around the agreement, and that's why the bullets tore into me. I put my own life up to hold his family's future in place. He gave the chance to live to another woman. A love where one person gives everything and never gets anything back. Is there any point in holding on?
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He Chose Her, I Chose Myself Chapter 9
Three years later.I had built out a business of my own right across the world.The day the change of partner was settled, I signed a long-term agreement with the Aldridge Group.Once, for Riccardo's sake, I had turned down every branch held out to me and let countless chances to build something go past.Now I was finally standing inside a business empire that was mine.The apology messages Riccardo had gone on sending all these years were still sitting in my phone.I never opened them, let alone answered.The heart that had been trampled and thrown away back then was so much smoke now, and none of it could touch me.Riccardo still wouldn't put it down. He tried desperately to win me back, and could only watch the distance between us stretch out further and further.He had no choice but to admit it: I did perfectly well away from him.Once, it was me dragging the Ferrante family forward one step at a time.Only the woman I am now is never going to turn around.At a grand ev
He Chose Her, I Chose Myself Chapter 8
"The one who's been working everyone from behind is you!"Riccardo kicked her off him, with undisguised disgust in his eyes."You faked being ill again and again, playing the victim, and used every soft spot I had for you as license to do harm."You joined with my mother to set us against each other, and you broke Valeria's heart over and over, all to feed your own selfish need to own me."Loredana shook her head, dazed.She fought to get at me one more time, and Riccardo's men pinned her down and held her."That was a moment of madness, I only loved you too much! I couldn't stand there and watch Valeria take you away, take everything that was mine!""Love?" Riccardo looked like a man who had just heard the funniest thing in the world."Your kind of love won't even spare my unborn child? Loredana, the only person you love is yourself."With that, Riccardo stopped paying any attention to Loredana's hysterics.He turned around and looked at me, tense."You're pregnant. Why did
He Chose Her, I Chose Myself Chapter 7
Three months later, Loredana, out of options, turned up in front of me without warning.Ever since the Ferrantes had been absorbed by Luciano, she had lost everything she used to lean on.Her face was worn out and her clothes were a mess, and there was nothing left of the woman who had stood so far above me at that wedding."Valeria, I'm begging you, let me in. I have things I need to say to you."I looked at her flatly, without a ripple behind my eyes."There's nothing between us worth saying."But Loredana wouldn't go, and she kept herself planted in my way."I know you hate me, but I've got nowhere left. The Ferrantes are gone, Riccardo doesn't want me, everyone treats me like something they threw away. Can't you look at what we used to be to each other and leave me a way out?""When you took my doctor off my case, and when you nearly made me lose this baby at my own wedding — when exactly were you planning to leave me a way out?"Loredana went white, and still forced out a
He Chose Her, I Chose Myself Chapter 6
Luciano took me to a private hospital for treatment.By great luck we got there in time, and the baby and I were both safe."What happened today made the front pages."Luciano was smiling faintly as he held his phone out to me."Guests filmed the scene at the wedding and put it online, and the talk has gotten completely away from them."The Ferrante estate and every location under them are ringed so tight with reporters nobody can get through."On top of that, word got out that I'd ended the partnership, so faction after faction has changed sides, their financing has collapsed, the capos have turned on Riccardo to a man, and inside that family it's chaos."He paused, then added the rest."And every piece of dirt on Loredana stealing credit and setting people against each other has been dug up. The whole internet is after her."I listened to all of it with my eyes down, as though it were something that had happened to a stranger."Is there a way to merge the Ferrante organizat
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