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Hearing Her Heart Drove Him Mad

Hearing Her Heart Drove Him Mad

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By:  Anna SmithCompleted
Language: English
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Mafia

Bias

Poor Student

Campus

At the Mafia Alliance Academy, reputation is the only currency—and mine was bankrupt in a single morning. One planted file, one flawless performance, and a few crocodile tears from Elena Rossi, the “fragile” scholarship student, were all it took. Overnight, I fell from the heights of the elite to a pariah branded a cruel bully. The ultimate betrayal? My fiancé, Luca Valenti—the future Don who once swore to be my blade—stood by her side, looking at me with nothing but cold contempt. They called me cruel. Entitled. A rich girl bullying someone who had nothing. What they didn’t know was that I could hear the venom dripping from Elena’s mind. While she played the victim, her thoughts laughed—mocking the Academy’s stupidity, sneering at how easily she had Luca wrapped around her finger. I stayed silent… until the Truth System awakened. Now I can broadcast her twisted thoughts to anyone I choose. And without hesitation, I linked her mind to Luca’s. So while Elena clings to his arm, crying about her “shattered dreams,” Luca hears everything— her plans to destroy his family, her contempt for his protection, and her disgust at being touched by him. The girl he chose is already tearing his world apart.

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7 Chapters
Chapter 1
During our mid-morning break, our class president—Elena Rossi—suddenly announced that her Model UN keynote draft had gone missing.The room erupted immediately.Desks were opened, backpacks dumped, even the recycling bin overturned.And then the shredded pages were “found” in my desk.Elena went pale on cue, her voice quivering just enough to sound honest.“Sofia… did I do something to you? Why would you tear up my draft?”I froze. None of this added up.Then she lowered her gaze, her tone shrinking into something wounded—almost intimate.“I know you’ve always looked down on charity students like me.”Her lips trembled.“That speech might’ve earned me a full travel scholarship. I was counting on it for the fees… for my mom’s treatment…”Tears collected on her lashes like she practiced them.“For you, it’d be nothing. For me… it was everything.”“People don’t get to choose where they’re born,” she choked out.“I don’t steal, I don’t cheat, I work harder than anyone, and I was recruited
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Chapter 2
Elena tugged lightly on Luca’s sleeve, her voice soft enough to melt steel.“It’s fine… Let’s just go check the security room. It won’t take long.”At that moment, I actually believed seeing the cameras would clear my name.I was naïve.The guard in charge of the surveillance room didn’t even look up when he said,“Sorry, kids. Cameras on that hallway were down since this morning.”My mind blanked.Luca exhaled sharply, lifting one shoulder in a lazy shrug as if to say See? I knew it.He leaned casually against the railing in the crowded hallway, a smirk tugging at his lips.“Sofia Colombo, you really went all out to make Rossi look bad, didn’t you?”“Afraid she might somehow threaten your place in my eyes?”I hadn’t done anything—and yet, shame and helplessness washed over me in a sudden, suffocating wave.My nose burned.Tears blurred my vision.I hadn’t touched Elena’s keynote draft.I hadn’t even been near her desk.Yet humiliation wrapped around me like barbed wire.Luca and I had
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Chapter 3
I kept my head down as I walked back to my seat. The next class was Corporate Strategy & Leadership—a mandatory course for heirs of Mafia families. Our instructor, Professor Moretti, was formidable across campus. Students called her the Dragon Lady behind her back. Last week she’d assigned a Management Competency Sheet. All we had to do was hand it in. Simple. Mine, which I knew I placed in my bag, had vanished. “Front. Now,” she ordered. “Ten push-ups. Go.” By the third, my arms were trembling. By the tenth, I was shaking, every movement a struggle, but she didn’t flinch or offer a word of mercy. “Failure to comply reflects failure in discipline. Stand in the back. And pray you learn.” At the Valenti-Colombo Academy, instructors held full disciplinary authority. Punishment wasn’t just humiliation—it became part of our official assessment. A stain on one’s record meant jeopardizing graduation… or the family’s trust. I had never been punished before. Not once. Forty-f
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Chapter 4
Elena was the first to break.She covered her face, let out a shaky sob, and turned abruptly—running straight out of the corridor as if she couldn’t bear another second under those stares.“Rossi—wait,” Luca said.He stopped himself, though.For a brief moment, his eyes shifted back to me.Not anger.Not contempt.Guilt.Raw and unmistakable.Then he turned away and went after her.I didn’t stop him.Outside the academy gates, a familiar black car waited. The door opened. My mother stepped out—impeccably dressed, the signature presence of the Colombo Family’s Donna. “Sweetheart,” she said, reaching for me. “I’ve been working non-stop for months. It’s time I spent a day with my daughter.” The moment her arms wrapped around me, something inside me collapsed. “Mom,” I whispered, voice cracking, “I missed you.” She stroked my back gently. “Tell me, what happened? Who hurt you?” I straightened, my decision suddenly crystal clear. “Mom… after graduation, I don’t want to go to the U.
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Chapter 5
Luca’s voice cut across the courtyard—low, cold, and vicious.“You’ve got some fucking nerve,” he snapped. “I spoil you with a little attention and suddenly you think you matter? Don’t flatter yourself.”The entire crowd froze.Even Elena Rossi went slack-jawed, her palm still pressed to the cheek he’d slapped moments ago.“You… you hit me?” she whispered, stunned.“That was me going easy,” Luca Valenti bit out. “Trash like you isn’t worth the dirt on my shoes.”Gasps rippled through the onlookers.No one could remember the Valenti heir ever losing his temper like this—much less on the girl he’d been obsessively defending for weeks.Luca leaned in, eyes blazing with a fury that made even the upper-year soldiers shift uneasily.“I’m dumb and rich? I’m your loyal puppy?” he hissed. “Funny how you called me that—inside your head.”Elena blanched.Her breathing stuttered.How the hell did he—No. Impossible. He couldn’t have heard her thoughts.Could he?But Luca’s expression only darkened
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Chapter 6
I wanted to hit harder—make his face drag across the floor metaphorically—so I lifted my chin, leveled my gaze at him, and said, each syllable clean and deliberate:“If you’ve got no shame and your brain’s been damaged beyond repair, go sit in a corner. Stop acting cheap in public.”“I don’t want to see you. You exhaust me. Understand?”The moment those words left my mouth, the entire class looked at Luca Valenti differently.His face went tight, and he snapped, frustrated and embarrassed,“How was I supposed to know Elena was that kind of person? I was trying to be decent—help the ‘disadvantaged.’ What exactly did I do wrong?”“You really have to be this petty? Can’t you let anything go?”My brows lifted a fraction. My voice dropped to ice.“Can you stop barking here?”He was so furious he couldn’t speak.The past few days had been good for me—especially today.My parents had just returned to celebrate my eighteenth birthday.At home.My mom said it felt warmer than any place outside.
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Chapter 7
Elena Rossi took to her livestream again—this time telling her story in painstaking detail.She said she had been special-admitted into the Alliance of Houses Academy, chosen for her top grades, but once inside, she realized how out of place she was.No one respected a scholarship student.She felt small, unwanted—completely alone.Only Luca Valenti had shown her kindness.He was the first to speak up when others picked on her, the first to shut down rumors, the first to force anyone who mocked her to apologize.She said she was grateful.Until one evening after class, when Luca had pulled her into the equipment room.She said she cried and tried to resist, but he told her:“As long as you’re with me, no one will dare lay a hand on you.”“I’ll take care of you. Always.”Fear, anger, despair—she said she felt all of it.But under Luca’s coaxing, she forced herself to believe she had chosen him willingly, convinced herself he was her boyfriend.One time became many.Then, according to he
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