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Reunion with the Don After Parting Chapter 12
Two years later, Adrian finally got what he wanted, and married me through the Vance family in full view of everyone.Just as the old Don had predicted, the elders opposed me, a woman from a wiped-out family, becoming Donna, same as ever.But Adrian fought for it, seized it, crushed every voice of dissent with an iron hand, and locked the absolute power of the whole family firmly in his own grip.Sometimes, watching him bristling with menace, sleeping with a gun in his hand, even I felt worn out on his behalf.I asked him if it was worth it.He held me tight and said, voice rough, of course it was.He only wanted to prove to me that he was the same as five years ago. That he'd still give everything for me, still give me anything I wanted, and still go to war with the whole world for my sake.He said he'd never changed.I looked into his stubborn, exhausted eyes and remembered before, when we were crammed into that tiny basement in the slums. We had nothing then, could have been killed
Reunion with the Don After Parting Chapter 11
That day, I won a beautiful victory.The whole East Coast was buzzing about how heartless the Vances were, and about me, the woman who'd swallowed every humiliation to save Adrian.The old Don's authority collapsed fast.For his coldness toward his own blood, the old Don even drew the Commission's watchful eye.Enemies circling the family's holdings saw the crack and moved, all of them itching to carve into Vance assets.Within a week there were several bloody clashes.Adrian was run ragged.The family elders demanded, loudly, that they throw out the troublemaker splitting the family. Me.Adrian just smiled, and in front of every elder, said coldly, "So we lost a little money and a few venues. What of it? Under my father, your tolerance for pressure got embarrassingly thin.""And another thing. The one who betrayed this family was never Eve. It was my father.""Eve. I'm marrying her. That's final."Adrian truly didn't care.Moving against him now wasn't as simple as it had been five ye
Reunion with the Don After Parting Chapter 10
Adrian called off the engagement with Charlotte.He used the full weight of the Vance name to crush the Whitmores' resistance.And to answer for it to the family, he seized three shipping routes single-handedly.All to marry me.I quit the underground bar, moved into the Vance estate, and came and went with Adrian openly, hiding nothing.Soon the East Coast gossip spread.They said Adrian had once loved me like his own life, nearly died for me, and I'd gotten pregnant and played him.They spun a story that I'd shaken the old Don down for a million dollars back then in exchange for keeping quiet.And then secretly given birth to the child.Now that Adrian was Don and about to be married, they said, I'd crawled back out to use the boy to threaten him.Everyone pitied Charlotte, said that she came from the Whitmore family, so beautiful, such a powerful background, that she was the one fit to be Donna.And me, a rat from a fallen house, a traitor before and a traitor forever.They knew I'd
Reunion with the Don After Parting Chapter 9
That day, the doctors brought Damian back.He slipped into a deep coma, and no one could say when he'd wake.I sat there staring at him lying so still in the ICU bed, like he was only sleeping.Out of the corner of my eye, I caught Charlotte quietly smiling.She faked a sigh and scolded me, frowning. "Eve, if you'd told Adrian, told me the truth sooner, I'm not a petty person. I could have let the child through the Vance family's door, let him call me mother.""He never had to suffer this much. It's all because of your fake pride, and now you've nearly gotten him killed..."She must have thought she could finally rest easy.Damian was alive but might as well be gone, and between Adrian and me there was now a raw, bleeding wound that would never heal.She thought I'd never forgive Adrian. That in the end, the woman who married the Don and became Donna could only be her.She'd forgotten, maybe. Back then I gave Adrian up because I wanted a quiet life.But now, everyone in the underworld
Reunion with the Don After Parting Chapter 8
I watched the resuscitation room doors slam shut and the red light come on. I sank to the floor and couldn't say a word.Adrian reached down to lift me up.I caught his hand and bit into it, hard, with everything I had.He didn't pull away. He just held still and let me take it out on him.Until I tasted blood, until I had no strength left, I finally broke and pushed him off.I staggered to my feet and asked him, desperate, "Adrian, why do you keep coming after me? I only wanted a clean goodbye. I was doing fine on my own..."He clenched his teeth and cut me off, eyes red, throwing it back at me. "You ask why I keep coming after you? You don't know? I've been out of my mind missing you!""You say you were doing fine? Begging people for money everywhere, dressing like that in an underground bar, ruining yourself, rotting in the mud. You call that fine?""You think I wanted to come find you? I just couldn't stand watching you hurt. You tell me what I was supposed to do.""Eve, you wronge
Reunion with the Don After Parting Chapter 7
My back hit the wall, and I grunted at the pain.Damian must have heard. He ran out of the ward on bare little feet.He spread his arms and planted himself in front of me, glaring up at Adrian, refusing to let him touch me again.Adrian looked down at him, a cold smile tugging at his mouth, and said flatly, "You're just like your mother. Insufferable."I watched Damian's eyes slowly redden. That one line must have cut him to the core.Under his pillow he'd been secretly keeping a newspaper clipping of Adrian. He'd always known Adrian was his father.Through all those painful nights after he got sick, he'd fall asleep in my arms and dream his daddy had come home.He said the daddy in his dreams missed Damian so much.Just like Damian missed his daddy, always crying about it in secret.He said his daddy wasn't going to leave anymore, and wouldn't let Mommy work so hard at the underground bar ever again.Except then the dream would end, and Damian met his father for real.Only to hear him
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