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I Gave Him Ten Years. Then I Took It All Back
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Ten years after I married into the Falcone family as the replacement bride, my sister finally came back. She had been the one to walk away from the engagement, spending the last decade traveling the world. On her first night back, she kissed Marco Falcone in front of the entire family. Then she walked over to me, smiling with the same innocent brightness she had ten years ago. "I'm back," she said. "You don't have to pretend to be me anymore, Ginevra. I'm home now." Everyone thought she had come to take back Marco. But those ten years were mine. I was the one who stayed beside Marco through the assassination attempts and the crumbling alliances. I was the one who helped him climb to the top of the family. I lost two children. I nearly died at the hands of our enemies. While she was out there enjoying her freedom, I was holding up his empire with my own blood. She had given nothing, and she wanted to take everything. I did not argue with her. I just looked at the man who once held me and swore he would never let me suffer again. I wanted to see it too. This time, between the first love who left ten years ago and the wife who bled beside him for ten years, who would Marco Falcone choose?
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I Gave Him Ten Years. Then I Took It All Back Chapter 11
After Lorenzo's situation settled, the port returned to its normal rhythm. I spent more time in the office now because there was more to handle. Every channel that had been written under my name now required my signature. It was slow at first, but by the third week it became routine.Marco did not call again. A document came through the lawyer instead. He had signed over the remaining operations, as promised. A note was attached. One line. These always should have been yours.The middleman Sofia named was gone from the circuit within a week. I did not ask where he went.I did not reply. I put the note in the file with the drug purchase records and kept signing.Two months later, the port did its quarterly count. My three freight companies, two storage docks, and the logistics lines that had been transferred since then had increased total throughput by nearly twenty percent.I stood at the window with my back straight. Wind came off the water and curled the edges of a contract waiting f
I Gave Him Ten Years. Then I Took It All Back Chapter 10
Three days later, I was reviewing the port's monthly volume report. A notification appeared on my phone. I read it and sat up.Lorenzo was back. Marco's half-brother had been hiding on the East Coast since he was pushed out of Chicago. Now he had surfaced with a will that was supposedly signed by the old man before his death. It said sixty percent of the Falcone assets should go to Lorenzo because the old man had changed the distribution a month before he died, and Marco had used his authority to hide the document.Lorenzo did not go to the tabloids. He went to an underground financial journal that specialized in digging up family accounts. The report included screenshots, file numbers, and a memo from a law firm. It looked real.Within hours, Falcone stocks started slipping. The banks that had stayed quiet began calling. Marco's people said the will was forged, but no one believed it. Lorenzo's material was too detailed. The kind of detail only someone close to the old man could have.
I Gave Him Ten Years. Then I Took It All Back Chapter 9
I stayed in the office until three in the morning. The car with the unknown plate had stopped at the side gate for forty minutes and then left. The dockworker said one man got out, walked the perimeter of the warehouse, and did not approach the main building. He was checking the layout.I sent the plate number to a security firm owner I knew. He said he would have an answer in two hours.At six in the morning, the sky was still gray. Port air came through the window crack, carrying the smell of rust and saltwater. I wore an old coat and sat in the hard chair, flipping through the contracts I had signed the night before.My phone buzzed. The security firm had a name. The car was registered to a shell company with cash inflows over the last three months tracing back to a gallery account. I remembered that gallery. Sofia had held several shows there while she was in Europe.I stood up and walked to the window. The cranes were not moving yet. The whole port sat quiet like a sheet of gray s
I Gave Him Ten Years. Then I Took It All Back Chapter 8
Marco's expression shifted. Something had landed. He opened his mouth, but I spoke first."Don, you forgot something. Ten years ago, I heard you say that Sofia would never have been able to handle what I handled.""Ginevra, I was young then." His voice tightened. "Ten years changes a person. Can you not see how much I have changed?"I looked up at him. "Because you changed, I am supposed to pretend none of it happened? If Sofia had not run away, would you have sent her to those negotiations, into those assassinations, to take the hits I took?"He did not answer. His hand pressed against the edge of the desk. His knuckles went white."Ginevra, does it have to be like this?"I nodded and gave him a dry smile. "Calling those ten years a transaction is fair for both of us."He took a deep breath, holding something back. "You never let anyone in. I thought we had something real."He turned and walked out.He did not know that in the hours he spent driving away, five men were assembling guns
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