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I Was Done Begging

I Was Done Begging

短篇故事 · Mafia
作者:  Eternity已完成
語言: English
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Reborn

Winning Back the Wife

Tragic Love

Mafia

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The day Vincent Moreau held a christening for his illegitimate son, everyone waited for me to lose control. Three years ago, I saved Vincent from a car crash and fell into a coma. I awakened one week before the christening. Everyone expected me to attack Isabella Cross and force Vincent to choose between me and her child. Instead, I placed a silver guardian angel medal beside the baby. “May you grow up safe and healthy.” Vincent studied me suspiciously. “You’re not angry?” “Isabella has given the Moreau family another heir. That is worth celebrating.” My best friend followed me out. “The old you would have overturned the entire banquet table.” “You said it yourself. That was the old me.” I looked back at the crowded banquet hall. “She died in that car crash three years ago.” During my coma, I lived another life in a parallel world. In that life, I ruined the christening and demanded that Vincent choose me. He chose Isabella and their son. He froze my accounts, took away my protection, and waited for me to come crawling back. Instead, his enemies abducted and tortured me. My birth parents found me as I lay dying, but they were too late. Then I woke from the coma. This time, I would not repeat the same mistakes.

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This one is worth the time to read. I cried at times, I smiled but never laughed. Thought provoking, well written piece.
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Chapter 1
The ballroom fell silent the moment Camille and I crossed the threshold.A string quartet continued beneath tiers of crystal chandeliers. Champagne gleamed in coupe towers, candlelight flashed across diamonds, and every face turned toward the woman in black silk who had just returned from the dead.They all knew I had awakened from a three-year coma only a week ago. They also knew that while I was unconscious, my husband had fathered a child with another woman.Everyone was waiting for me to lose control.Before the accident, I would have given them exactly what they wanted. I would have overturned the champagne tower, torn the Moreau sapphire necklace from Isabella’s throat, and forced Vincent to choose between us in front of every powerful family in New York.I would have called it pride, but every public scene had really been the same demand.Choose me where everyone can see it.That was the Sophia they remembered—wild, spoiled, and desperate to prove that I mattered to him.Vincent
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Chapter 2
Seven days.That was all the time I had left in the Moreau estate.When I returned, our six-foot wedding portrait still dominated the white-marble entrance hall, enclosed in a hand-carved gold-leaf frame.In it, I wore ivory satin and the Moreau diamonds, smiling up at Vincent with absolute certainty. He stood behind me in black, one hand spread across my waist in a pose that was elegant, intimate, and unmistakably possessive.People used to joke that the controlled, untouchable Moreau heir was the only man capable of handling the wild, reckless Sophia.Whenever I created a scandal, Vincent cleaned it up. Whenever I acted without thinking, he brought me home and told me to behave.I had mistaken the way he managed me for devotion.I looked away from the portrait.“Marta.”The housekeeper hurried into the hall. “Yes, Mrs. Moreau?”“Take it down. Then clear every wedding photograph, gift, and souvenir from this house.”Marta followed my gaze and froze.“All of them?”“Donate anything use
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Chapter 3
Vincent confined me to the east wing—a suite of blue silk walls, antique mirrors, and locked French doors overlooking the winter garden—as though I were still nineteen and willing to mistake his control for attention.At midnight, Marta brought dinner on a silver tray.The soup arrived in white porcelain, prepared with exactly the amount of salt my doctor allowed. My medication rested in a small silver dish beside a cut-crystal glass of warm water, and a cashmere blanket lay folded at the foot of the bed.Vincent remembered every detail of my recovery.He simply did not trust me.I took my medication and called the hotel manager on his private line.“This is Sophia Moreau. Send me the security recordings from the front desk, elevators, and east corridor during tonight’s christening.”He did not ask for authorization. The recordings arrived within half an hour.The first recording showed an employee placing the guardian angel medal and education fund documents inside the box before seal
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Chapter 4
Three days after Vincent returned my passport, Camille came to the estate.Vincent had said nothing more about the security footage. His doctor still arrived every morning, and a guard remained outside my door.My phone vibrated as I reached Camille’s car.Three days until your departure. Your flight is confirmed. The divorce papers will be delivered after you leave New York.I deleted the notification.Camille glanced at me. “Was that your attorney?”“Yes.”“Good.” She placed a heavy cream auction catalog, embossed in gold, across my lap. “Then we’re getting you something to take with you.”The catalog was already open to Lot 47.A double strand of luminous pearls rested against black velvet. At the center hung an oval sapphire bordered by old-mine diamonds, its reverse engraved with a familiar message.[To my Sophia, wherever life takes you.]My breath caught.The necklace had belonged to my mother. She wore it in nearly every photograph I had of her. After she died in a car accident
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Chapter 5
Isabella’s scream tore through the lounge.The staff froze. Someone called for an ambulance while another reached for security.I casually tossed the wine bottle aside. The crash as it hit the floor made Isabella flinch again.“I always repay my debts,” I said. “Remember that.”Vincent set the medication aside and pressed a folded napkin over Isabella’s wound.“Keep pressure on it,” he ordered a member of staff.Then he turned to me.“Tell me what happened.”“She put my mother’s necklace on a stray dog and insulted her.”“What?” For the first time, his voice lost its usual control.Isabella began to cry.“I was angry. I didn’t mean—”“Show me the video.”Her face went pale.Vincent picked up the phone beside the table and played the recording. The dog appeared on the screen with my mother’s pearls around its neck while Isabella’s voice mocked her death.When the video ended, Vincent looked at her.“You used twenty million dollars of my money to desecrate a dead woman’s belongings?”“I
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Chapter 6
I stared at Vincent from the hospital bed.Bruises covered my ribs and stomach beneath the thin gown. Three days in detention had left my lips cracked, my body exhausted, and my flight only hours away.The doctor had told Vincent I collapsed from dehydration and exhaustion. I had said nothing about the women who beat me or the order that supposedly came from the Moreau house.Vincent stood there as though everything had happened for my benefit.I started laughing.At first, it was only a quiet breath. Then the laughter grew until tears ran down my face.Every movement hurt my ribs, but I could not stop.Vincent’s expression darkened.“What is so funny?”I had once believed he was the safest place in my world.Now he had sent me to jail because he thought three days without his protection would frighten me into obedience.Someone else had simply carried his lesson further.When the laughter finally faded, I wiped my eyes.“Nothing.”“Sophia.”“I said it was nothing.”“I instructed Russo
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Chapter 7
Vincent had spent years deciding where I belonged.This time, he would not choose my destination.At midnight, my attorney sent Vincent the signed divorce petition, the repayment receipt, and a photograph of my wedding ring beside his lighter.He opened them aboard his jet.Then he called me.This number is no longer in service.“What time did Sophia’s flight leave?” he asked Marco.“Ten forty.”Vincent walked into the cockpit.“Turn around.”“We’re halfway to Chicago.”His control finally cracked.“Now.”...By the time my plane landed in Boston, dawn was beginning to soften the sky. I had not slept. Every time I closed my eyes, I felt the detention cell beneath me and heard Vincent asking whether I had learned my lesson.The bruises along my ribs throbbed when I lifted my suitcase from the carousel. My attorney, Daniel Cole, was waiting near the exit. He looked at my face, then at the fading marks around my wrists.“What happened to you?”“Vincent decided I needed discipline.”Daniel
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Chapter 8
The Bellamy retaliation began before sunrise.By eight the next morning, three Moreau shipments had been denied entry at Boston Harbor. Two insurance companies canceled coverage on vessels connected to Vincent’s shell corporations. A private bank demanded immediate repayment of a sixty-million-dollar credit line.At nine, Victor’s chief financial officer entered the breakfast room with another report. “The Moreau accounts in Providence and Hartford are temporarily frozen. Their attorneys are challenging the order.”Victor continued drinking his coffee. “Let them.”I sat across from him, reading the documents. The attacks were precise. No innocent employees had been targeted, and no legitimate Moreau business had been destroyed without cause. Victor had struck only the companies Vincent used to move money, weapons, and influence through Bellamy territory.“You did all this overnight?” I asked.“We have been controlling these ports longer than Vincent has been alive.” Victor set down his
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Chapter 9
Vincent remained outside the gates for nearly an hour. He called Daniel twice, Marco six times, and the Bellamy estate directly until the security office stopped answering.I watched him through the upstairs window. Even from a distance, I recognized the rigid line of his shoulders. Vincent did not know how to wait for permission. He had built his entire life around the certainty that other people would eventually obey.Eleanor stood beside me. “You don’t have to see him.”“I know.”That was precisely why I decided to go downstairs.Victor received Vincent in a formal sitting room instead of the private rooms used by the family. Two Bellamy guards remained near the door.Vincent stood when I entered. His gaze moved over me quickly, checking my face, my hands, and the way I favored my injured side. Relief appeared first. Then anger covered it.“You look terrible.”I sat across from him. “You always know exactly what to say.”He ignored the remark. “We’re going back to New York. My docto
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Chapter 10
Vincent returned to New York that night. By morning, he had ordered every Moreau captain to reroute shipments around Bellamy territory. He moved cash from legitimate companies, contacted alternative insurers, and threatened anyone who hesitated to obey.None of it surprised me. I had watched him manage the Moreau empire for ten years. Vincent responded to pressure by tightening his control. The harder people resisted, the more certain he became that absolute obedience would solve the problem.He still believed this was Victor’s war. He did not know I had spent the night studying every Moreau company connected to New England.Victor entered the library shortly after breakfast and found the table covered in financial reports.“You should sleep.”“I know where Vincent will move the money.”He picked up the list I had made. The first page contained the names of seven shell corporations. The second showed the warehouses Vincent used when official ports became unavailable. The third identifi
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