Mag-log inThe top-tier charity auction in Manhattan is about to begin when my boyfriend’s stepsister spots a pearl necklace she likes. Wanting to buy it as her birthday gift, my boyfriend reserves a bidding seat. But due to a mistake by the organizers, the seat had actually been reserved by someone else before he booked it. An elderly lady dressed plainly says the seat is hers, yet they show no intention of yielding. I force my boyfriend to give the seat back to the woman. But Amy storms out in a fit of anger. That night, gunshots echo through the neighborhood. A stray bullet hits her, and she bleeds out on the spot. He calmly arranges her funeral, yet still keeps his promise and marries me. Soon after, my father dies in what is ruled an accident. On the day of my father’s funeral, he storms into the church with his men. Looking at me kneeling before the coffin, he smiles arrogantly. “Olivia, this is what you owe Amy! If you hadn’t stopped me that day, the seat would’ve been hers! She wouldn’t have run out in anger, and she wouldn’t have been shot! Let me tell you something—your father was killed by me. And now it’s your turn!” Right in front of everyone, he shoots my younger brother—who had been kneeling beside me, begging for mercy—dead with a single bullet. His bodyguards pin me down and drag me out of the church as I watch helplessly, his blood pooling before my father’s coffin. When I open my eyes again, my boyfriend is glaring angrily at the waiter, about to explode. What he doesn’t know is that the plainly dressed old woman in sunglasses is the mother of the current Don of the most powerful Mafia family in New York—the Morretti family. And that Don is famously devoted to his mother.
view moreI bent down and picked it up.Leo knelt on the ground, clutching his bleeding wrist, trembling all over. “Olivia… Olivia, I was wrong… we were together for ten years… you can’t…”Ten years.When he was at his lowest, I used my own money to support him. I stayed by his side as he climbed from nobody to Underboss. And in the end, he entangled himself with that so-called stepsister of his—no blood relation whatsoever—treating our ten years together as if they meant nothing, even going so far as to harm my family.I walked up to him.“Ten years,” I said softly, “Leo, do you know what I regret most about those ten years?”He looked at me in terror.“It’s not that I loved you,” I said. “It’s that I didn’t see through you sooner.”I pulled the trigger.Bang!The shot hit his left leg.He screamed and collapsed.“This shot is for my father.”Then I fired again, into his right leg.“This shot is for my brother.”He tried to argue, “What did I ever do to your brother?!”Of course he didn’t know.
St. Patrick’s CathedralI knelt before the coffin, a black veil covering my face.My fingers tightened—not in prayer, but counting seconds.In my previous life, it was here that Leo kicked open the church doors. A bullet tore through my brother’s forehead, and his blood spread across the floor in front of my father’s coffin.I was held down, forced to watch my family fall, powerless to do anything.That scene replayed in my nightmares countless times after my rebirth.Every time I woke up, I would touch my face—it would be wet with tears.But today was different.Today… this was my trap.I tilted my head slightly, scanning the back rows of the church from the corner of my eye.Alessandro’s men were disguised as mourners, scattered in small groups among the pews.Behind me came the sound of chaotic footsteps.Not one person—a group.Bang—The church doors were kicked open.Leo stood in the doorway, over twenty armed men behind him.“Olivia!”His voice echoed through the empty church, la
After that day, what happened at the auction spread through every street and alley.The Don of the Colombo family personally came to apologize to the Morretti family, dismissing Leo from his position as Underboss on the spot and promising to “punish him without mercy.”It was said that when Leo was taken away, his expression looked as if someone had peeled off a layer of his skin alive.But I knew—so long as he was still alive, he would never let me go.One week later, early in the morning, a black sedan stopped punctually beneath my apartment building.The one who came to pick me up was none other than Alessandro himself.When we arrived, he led me inside.In the living room, the old lady sat by the window in a rocking chair, her eyes covered with a strip of snow-white gauze, a takeout container in her hands.“Olivia is here? Would you like to try some cheeseburger patties? Alessandro made them.” She tilted her head, accurately facing the direction I had entered from.I was startled.
After understanding the full picture, Alessandro’s gaze fell on the auction item.Under the spotlight, the pearls glowed with a soft, lustrous sheen.“I don’t want bloodshed in front of my mother, so I’ll spare you for now,” he said lightly. “Since my mother wants that pearl necklace, let the bidding continue.”Everyone in the room froze.Given Alessandro’s temper, I had expected Leo to have at least two broken ribs by now.But he was letting it go just like that?The auctioneer received the signal and forced himself to continue. “One million five hundred thousand, going once…”Alessandro raised his paddle. “Ten million.”Leo stood there, motionless.He no longer dared to bid like before.“Ten million, going once.” The auctioneer’s voice rang clearly through the silent VIP room.No one else raised a paddle. No one dared compete with the Don for a necklace.“Ten million, going twice…”“Ten million, going—”I studied Alessandro’s expression, then took a closer look at the necklace before






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