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I Married the Don Instead, and My Ex Came Crawling Back Chapter 12
That pet name stopped me cold. Only one person had ever called me that. I looked up into his rare ice-blue eyes.A long-buried memory broke open.Twelve years ago, under the crumbling walkway of St. Peter's orphanage, a boy covered in injuries and still unbroken had the same defiant blue eyes.The orphan I had casually sponsored back then was the man the whole underworld now feared."Don't be afraid. You have me."He rested his forehead against mine, his voice steady and certain.The panicked hammering in my chest steadied in a way I couldn't explain.I nodded hard and closed my hand around his warm palm.In the end, the fight to the death I had braced for never happened.Ulysses' elite team swept in like ghosts and tore through the factory's defenses with overwhelming force.A few muffled shots rang out, and every thug Alvin had hired through the black market was disarmed and taken down, left sprawled across the floor and groaning."Ms. Wharton!"The elderly butler hurried out of the
I Married the Don Instead, and My Ex Came Crawling Back Chapter 11
Alvin muttered it to himself, gray in the face."Loves you? Look how much of her love you burned through!"Howard jabbed a finger at his nose. "The Wharton family dragged this company back from the dead, and you, you ungrateful disaster, destroyed all of it!""Get out! Take your junk and get out of this house!"His parents shoved him out the door, and the slam behind him was deafening.Alvin sat down hard in the hallway, dazed.The pride he once carried like a crown had been ground into the mud in a single day.Hannah hurried up with two oversized suitcases, her hair a mess and fury in every step."Alvin! What the hell have you been doing?"Hannah grabbed him by the collar and screamed at him, her eyes red."The bank seized the ocean-view apartment I live in!"And every credit card you gave me is frozen. I just tried to use one!"Howard jabbed a finger in his face and laid into him. "The Wharton family dragged this company back from the dead, and you, you ungrateful disaster, destroyed
I Married the Don Instead, and My Ex Came Crawling Back Chapter 10
I heard my father's pained cough and muffled groan on the other end, and my throat closed."If I don't see you in ten minutes, I'll gift-wrap your old man and hand him to the Moretti Family. Ulysses' worst enemies will show him a good time!"The Moretti Family was Ulysses' most brutal, bloodthirsty rival in the underworld. No one handed over to them came out alive.My arm dropped to my side, my palm slick with cold sweat."Fine."I gripped the phone, and my voice had no warmth left in it at all."Don't touch my father. I'm coming now."A few days earlier, after Alvin was thrown out of the Wharton Group, he had driven straight to the mansion west of the city, planning to wait there until Lillian came home.He had bought a box of Lillian's favorite fresh fig tarts and tossed it onto the passenger seat.The way he saw it, all he ever had to do was offer a small apology. Lillian's eyes would fill with tears, and she'd forgive him.So he had canceled six weddings. So what?Lillian was alway
I Married the Don Instead, and My Ex Came Crawling Back Chapter 9
The afternoon sun slanted low. Ulysses left the castle to deal with the Corvino Family's covert network, and I wandered the long corridor alone.Without meaning to, I ended up at the far west end of the third floor.A heavy black-walnut door stood unlocked and slightly ajar.I pushed it open, and dust drifted quietly through the shafts of light coming in from the stained glass.I looked around the room and went rigid in front of a display case.On the velvet lining lay a rare 1960s vinyl record, long out of print.Beside it sat a one-of-a-kind wind-up music box carved with silver roses.Seven years ago, on my birthday during sophomore year, I tugged at Alvin's sleeve and told him how badly I wanted that discontinued music box.Alvin had eagerly agreed, only to give Hannah an expensive strand of pearls the next day and forget my request entirely.The record, too. I had mentioned wanting it only once, in an old bookstore when I was twenty-two, and written it off as a regret.Even the dis
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"To our real home."Light and shadow raced past the car windows, and the car finally stopped deep inside a private forest out past the edge of the city.I went rigid. I forgot to breathe.The tall Gothic towers, the blue-violet irises carved in relief and climbing the white marble columns, even the exact pose of the sword-bearing angel in the center of the fountain, all of it matched the drawings I had locked in my diary when I was twelve.That was a girl's fantasy that not even my father had ever seen.I pushed open the heavy carved bronze door, and warm golden light spilled out.Every piece of solid-wood furniture came from a now-defunct Scandinavian atelier. Above the fireplace hung my favorite post-Impressionist painting by an unknown artist. Even the carpet's thickness and texture matched my exacting tastes."Do you like it, Mrs. Corvino?"Ulysses came up close behind me and rested his chin on my shoulder, his low voice brushing the sensitive skin of my neck.I willed my racing he
I Married the Don Instead, and My Ex Came Crawling Back Chapter 7
Alvin spun around, slapped the card from Hannah's hand, and roared, all control gone.Hannah stood there stunned, her eyes going red in an instant."You... you yelled at me? You yelled at me over a few million dollars?"She pressed a hand to her chest and started to sob. "You don't care about me at all! Is Lillian the only one in your head now, that stuck-up little heiress?"Any other day, Alvin would have pulled her into his arms and coaxed her gently until she calmed down.Now, as he watched Hannah sob in front of him, he felt nothing but endless irritation and disgust.An image of me surfaced in his mind, unbidden.As the sole heir to the Wharton Group, I had never made a public scene over jewelry like some fishwife brawling in a market, much less humiliated him in front of a crowd over a few million dollars.Hannah's tears stopped moving him. All they revealed was the greed beneath her delicate act."Get out! Stop embarrassing yourself here!"Alvin ground the words out through his
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