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The Boy I Chose Became My Ruin Chapter 11
In the end, I borrowed men from Rafael, gathered what was left of the Caruso loyalists, and returned to New York.It took three months to take back the ports, the clubs, the warehouses, and the security routes Matteo had handed to Bellandi after my grandfather's death. It took another two to cut Marino money out of our accounts. Vincenzo Marino ran before we reached him, but men like him always left doors behind. Rafael had patience for doors. I had patience for blood.By winter, the new Caruso house stood on the same land as the old one.I did not rebuild it exactly as it had been. The old house belonged to my grandfather, to Marco, to childhood dinners and locked rooms and every version of myself that still believed loyalty could be measured by how many bullets a man took for you. That house had burned. I let it stay burned."Caruso territory comes back," I said. "Anyone who gave Marino information will be found. Anyone who followed Bellandi because he held a gun to his head can buy
The Boy I Chose Became My Ruin Chapter 10
Elena's mouth opened, but no sound came out.For the first time since I had known her, she did not have a ready-made sob, a trembling excuse, or a helpless look prepared for the man watching her.Matteo held the cage bars with both hands, blood running down one side of his face. The fight had nearly broken him, but his eyes were clear now, fixed on Elena with a kind of stillness I had never seen in him before."Tell him," I said.Elena shook her head.Rafael gave a small nod.One of his men placed another folder on the table. This one was thicker, filled with photographs, birth records, bank transfers, clinic logs, and copies of travel documents under three different names.I opened it in front of her."Elena Voss was a useful name," I said. "Soft enough to sound harmless. Sad enough to make your story believable. But it was never the name you were born with."Her face went white.I turned the first page toward Matteo."Her birth certificate was sealed in Palermo under a private regist
The Boy I Chose Became My Ruin Chapter 9
I looked at him."Don't look at me like I came to save you."His face changed.Good.Above us, Elena made a broken sound."Matteo, please."I turned toward her.She was still hanging from the chain, wrists bound above her head, the word LIAR cut across one cheek. Even like that, she looked at Matteo first, still hoping pain would make her useful."Bring her down," I said.The chain lowered slowly. Elena's knees buckled the moment her feet touched the platform, and two of Rafael's men caught her before she hit the floor.Matteo gripped the bars and tried to stand. His body failed him halfway, but his eyes stayed sharp."What are you doing?""What you never did," I said. "Asking the right questions."Elena shook her head at once."She's lying, Matteo. She did all of this to punish me."I smiled."I did do this to punish you."Elena froze."But that doesn't make me the liar in this room."Rafael stepped out from the shadow near the stairs, calm and silent in a dark coat. He did not need t
The Boy I Chose Became My Ruin Chapter 8
Matteo arrived at the old stockyard pit twenty-seven minutes later.The place sat beneath an abandoned meat-processing plant on the south side of Chicago. From the outside, it looked empty: rusted gates, broken windows, weeds pushing through the cracked concrete. But Matteo saw the cameras hidden under the eaves and the men waiting near the side entrance before his car even stopped.Luca stepped out behind him.Matteo glanced at him. "Stay outside.""Boss—""Ten minutes out, like I said."Luca's jaw tightened, but he did not argue.Matteo walked toward the entrance alone.An older man in a dark coat was already waiting for him by the steel door. His hair was gray, his gloves were black leather, and he looked too calm for someone standing in front of a man who had taken New York by force.He checked his watch."Mr. Bellandi," he said. "Thirty minutes. Our employer appreciates punctuality."Matteo's face stayed cold."Where is Elena?""Inside," the old man said. "If you want her alive, y
The Boy I Chose Became My Ruin Chapter 7
After the fire at the Caruso house, New York changed hands faster than anyone expected.Don Angelo was dead. Vivian was missing. Most of the Caruso captains had either been captured, killed, or forced to kneel before the new Bellandi name.Matteo did not give them time to gather courage.With the men he had built in secret and the old Bellandi loyalists who came out of hiding after his name was restored, he took control of the Caruso ports, clubs, warehouses, and security routes within three weeks. A few men resisted at first. They called him a pit man, a traitor, a boy pretending to be a Don.After the first two disappeared, no one repeated it in public.By the end of the month, the Caruso family existed in name only.Matteo sat in Don Angelo's old office one rainy afternoon, signing orders over a desk that had once belonged to the man he killed, when Luca came in with a file."Boss," he said, "we found her."Matteo's pen stopped.Luca placed several photographs on the desk.The first
The Boy I Chose Became My Ruin Chapter 6
Fifteen years ago, New York's underworld was divided between four old families.The Carusos held the ports and lower Manhattan. The Bellandis controlled the west-side unions and construction money. The Marinos ran Queens through gambling rooms, off-book shipments, and street crews. The Sorrentos kept Chicago close enough to influence New York without being swallowed by it.Back then, Matteo Bellandi was still young enough to believe a family name meant safety.The last time the four families gathered, his father left the Bellandi estate in a black convoy and never came home. The cars were attacked before they reached the summit in Westchester. By the time word returned to the Bellandi house, the guards were dead, the vehicles were burned, and his father's body had been destroyed badly enough that the family could only identify him by his ring.His grandfather collapsed when he heard the news.Two days later, poison was found in the broth prepared for the old man's dinner.The Bellandis
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