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He Made Me Take the Fall for the False Heiress，Now the Don Regrets Everything
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After eight years together, Luca finally brought me to the long table where his family held its council meetings. There was no ring waiting for me. Just a confession. He wanted me to admit that I had burned a warehouse full of the families' guns and killed three of their men. The woman who had actually signed the order to resume work despite the safety warnings sat on his right, wearing the Moretti emerald. “Sign it, Eve.” Luca took my hand and placed a pen in my palm. “I'll send you to Sicily. Once this blows over, I'll come and bring you home myself.” Everyone at that table knew I was his woman. My confession would give the bereaved crews someone to punish. Sera would keep her place beside him, and the men behind her would keep him in power. “And if I don't?” That night, he removed the family crest from my collar and closed off every way out. Hours later, I called a number I had saved a month earlier. “Mom, I want to come home.” “But don't ask him for mercy. I'll go to the sit-down in three days and face him myself.” They still didn't know that I was the true daughter of the Moretti family, the family Luca was so desperate to win over. And there was something I wanted to show him even more than the DNA results. The declaration he had signed himself, stripping me of his protection.
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He Made Me Take the Fall for the False Heiress，Now the Don Regrets Everything Chapter 16
The first Christmas after I left Luca, I burned the gingerbread.I had forgotten to set the timer. By the time my father asked whether something was supposed to smell like that, smoke was curling out of the oven.I froze with a towel in my hand.My mother turned off the heat and opened the back door. My father carried the tray outside.Neither of them asked me to stay in the kitchen.I sat on the stairs until the smell cleared.A few minutes later, my father appeared with a cookie between two fingers.“I think this one might be salvageable.”“Don't eat that.”He took a bite anyway, considered it, then reached for the wastebasket.I started laughing before he did.We made the second batch together. My mother rolled the dough too thin. My father pressed the cutters so hard they left marks on the board. I stood between them, showing them how much flour to use.When the timer rang, I opened the oven myself.We let the cookies cool before anyone tried one.There were six places at dinner. M
He Made Me Take the Fall for the False Heiress，Now the Don Regrets Everything Chapter 15
The workshop opened in May.Helen sent me a customer with a jammed advance lever. I repaired it, wrote the bill, and put my name beneath the guarantee.A week later, Rinaldi arrived at closing time.“The capos have chosen. Salvatore is ending it tonight.”I put down the lens I was cleaning.“Do I have to go?”“No.”“I want to hear what happens.”Rinaldi waited while I locked the workshop.The sit-down was in the private dining room of a restaurant that still carried the Vito name. Downstairs, candles stood in wine bottles. Upstairs, every man entering surrendered his gun.Rinaldi led me to the empty bar downstairs. Luca's private papers lay beside a steel bin.“He told me where to find these.”Beneath the copies of my confession was a second set of instructions for the men taking me to Sicily. I wasn't to leave the grounds without his permission.I read the page twice.He had packed my pillow for a house I wouldn't be allowed to leave.“He told the crews you'd be held there until he pa
He Made Me Take the Fall for the False Heiress，Now the Don Regrets Everything Chapter 14
The house in Sicily sold in April.My share arrived without a note from Luca. There was a separate offer to repay the money I'd put into the restaurants eight years earlier.I read it at the kitchen table with Rinaldi on the phone.“It's your money coming back. Accepting it buys him nothing. I made that clear.”“Does accepting it oblige me to see him?”“No.”“Then accept it.”I had sold my mother's house to pay those wages. I accepted the repayment.I used some of it to rent a small workshop behind a photography store.The owner was a woman named Helen who developed film, restored old portraits, and had very little patience for customers who wanted damage repaired overnight.She looked at my brace during our first meeting.“Can you do the work?”“Some of it. I'm still recovering.”“Then tell me what you can take on. Don't promise me six repairs and bring back two.”I liked her immediately.The workshop had one high window, a sink that dripped, and enough space for a bench and two chair
He Made Me Take the Fall for the False Heiress，Now the Don Regrets Everything Chapter 13
My parents went home the following week, and I went with them.The room they had prepared for me was at the back, overlooking the garden. There were bookshelves, a desk, and a bed with a plain white quilt.No framed photographs of a life I hadn't lived. No clothes chosen for me.My mother set a key on the desk.“The lock works from the inside, too.”I picked it up.“If you want us, we're down the hall.”She left before I had to ask for time alone.I unpacked the camera my father had given me and put my adoptive mother's letters in the desk drawer. Then I sat on the bed, holding the key.Before dinner, a deputy mayor came through the side entrance. I recognized him from a newspaper photograph. My father greeted him without a title and closed the study door. Later, Rinaldi escorted him to his car carrying a gift box.My mother drew the curtains before turning on the dining room lights. I had come home, but I hadn't left that world. Different men stood between me and the door now.For the
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