LOGINI took out a check from my handbag and threw it at him. “This is the ‘compensation’ you gave me two years ago. I’m returning it to you with interest. From now on, we have nothing to do with each other anymore.”With that said, I held Lorenzo’s hand, turned around elegantly, and walked to our seats. Damian remained kneeling on the cold floor as he watched me leave with another man. He wanted to scream, only to find himself unable to. It was as if his throat had been burned by fire. Finally, he understood that certain things could not be fixed anymore once they were shattered. Certain relationships would only leave behind a bottomless pit after you let them slip from your grasp. …After the summit, Damian tried to stop me in the parking lot. He stood in front of my car and knelt in front of it like a lowly beggar. “Annie, just one minute… Please let me say something to you.”I wound down the car window and stared at his aged, regretful face. “What is it?”“If the baby
A brilliant ray of light tore through the darkness in the hall. Dressed in a long dress with silver sequins sewn by a top-class designer, I walked in. The hem swayed as I did, making the dress look like it had an entire galaxy flowing within it. My hair was no longer black and straight. Instead, I had curly hair, which gave me a more mature appearance. At present, my hair hung past my shoulders. My gaze was no longer meek and fawning. Instead, it held indifference and an awe-inspiring quality that only someone who went through a life-and-death situation could have.Standing beside me was a tall, regal man. He was Lorenzo Costaroza, the current don of the oldest mafia family in the Central Ocean region. He had liked me for a long time, and he was a good man. He had helped me with my plane crash and subsequent disappearance. He also helped me get the videos to show Alice’s true colors. Otherwise, things would not have gone on so smoothly.At that moment, he held my waist ge
Alice was smirking viciously at a camera. In her hands was a fake DNA report. She was boasting to someone on the other end of the phone. “Damian is such an idiot. He thinks that the twins are his! They’re actually Roberto Carlos’ children. I got them after cheating on Damian with him. Once he makes the twins his heirs, the Carlos family will absorb the Morrety family with no problems at all.”Next was a video of Alice spitting at Annie’s photo in the One and Only manor. She started cursing at Annie. “You slum-crawling witch. You have no right to have his love! Once I kill you, your man and status will all be mine! Hahaha!”The person on the other end of the phone said something, and Alice laughed again. “Of course, Damian knows nothing! I’ve sent photos of me sleeping with him to that witch many times before. By the way, I even had someone make a fake video to make her think that Damian doesn’t want her baby. I made it sound like he wants to kill it the moment she gives birth t
When news about the plane vanishing from the radar returned to Zolnah, all blood drained from Damian’s face completely, as if an ancient curse had instantly drained him of his soul. He pushed Alice away and ran out of the manor barefoot. Over the next three months, Damian became the most obsessed person on the Great Western Ocean. He wandered about it like a ghost. He used all the Morrety family’s armed forces and even borrowed deep-sea submersibles from the Carlos family, the Morrety family’s rival family. Every day, he spent only two hours sleeping and spent the rest of the time standing on the deck as he stared at the deep sea that swallowed Annie up. “Don Damian, it has already been ninety days.”His assistant, an assassin with a brutish face, spoke with a light tremor in his voice. “We didn’t find the black box, and we only found a few aircraft skins. Considering how strong the explosion was, I don’t think—”“Quiet.” Damian’s voice was as hoarse as sandpaper. He turn
A day before the wedding anniversary, I went to the place where we first met. It was an abandoned harbor located in the suburbs. Damian built the One and Only manor for me over there to show that I was his one and true love. However, when I walked into the manor, I found that the decorations and furniture inside had completely changed. The light-blue curtains I loved had become pink curtains. The white gardenias in the garden were uprooted, and in their place were lilies—Alice’s favorite flowers. There was even a baby’s cradle in the master bedroom. I went to the bathroom. The door wasn’t shut tight, so I heard the sound of water running inside, along with a man and woman laughing. “Dear, if Annie learned that you’re with me right now, would she get so upset that she’d get a miscarriage?”That was Alice’s voice.Damian just tightened his hold over her waist and grunted, “Don’t ruin the mood. Just get on your knees for me.”I stood in the shadows. Despite my hands and fee
Everyone knew that three years ago, Damian had destroyed the Kent family as a gift for me in order to propose to me. He sent Alice’s father to jail and had the entire family vanish from Zolnah. Yet the disgraced heiress who should be struggling to survive in the slums was walking straight to us while wearing a diamond worth millions and a champagne flute in hand. “Good evening, everyone.” Alice pretended not to notice how unwelcome she was and remained smiling. Then, she looked past the crowd and saw the shawl around my shoulders. In the next second, she covered her mouth in exaggerated movements, though her amusement never reached her eyes. “My goodness, Annie, that shawl you’re wearing… What a coincidence. That’s the limited-edition shawl Phoenix launched this season, and it’s the brand I created.”Whispers rippled through the crowd instantly. “Didn’t the Kent family go broke? Where did she get the money to create a luxury brand?”“I heard that Phoenix received a huge inves







