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Chapter 11
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The Don Didn't Recognize His Own Son Chapter 12
Three months later, Lorenzo made good on his promise. He married me.The old Don was right. The elders never stopped fighting it.Lorenzo crushed them. Publicly. But the fight didn't go away. It just went underwater.To prop me up, he ran himself ragged — splitting them up, pinning them down, buying some, burying others.I'd watch him and feel tired for him.I asked him once. Was it worth it?He said of course it was. It was the only thing he could give me.He needed the world to know. Nothing was going to keep us apart.He was the same man. Loved me the same way. Would give everything up the same way. Would take on the whole world the same way.Until death came for one of us, he was going to fight for it.His eyes were set and tired, like a night sky behind a layer of smog.I looked at him and I remembered before. The little apartment. Nothing in it. Nothing to our names.And we had everything.Back then, we had the light.If you have light, you have a world. The size of the world is
The Don Didn't Recognize His Own Son Chapter 11
The internet flipped.Sofia, having framed herself and then publicly admitted to lying, was finished.Now the whole internet was talking about Lorenzo. About the Don. About me who'd sacrificed everything for love.The incident grew increasingly popular and caught the attention of the family elders.The Morettis have one rule: run the underworld quietly. Stay out of the spotlight.The elders signed a joint demand. Lorenzo was to drop me. Immediately. Kill the story.Lorenzo sat behind his big mahogany desk. His eyes were wolfish."It'll die down. Why are you all panicking?""The family was going to move into legitimate business eventually. This is the opening.""And Liana..."He stood up. Looked around the room like a king inspecting his army."I'm not saying this twice. She's my wife. She's your Donna. We're done here."Lorenzo wasn't the soft kid in love anymore.He was the Don now. Tempered in blood and fire.In the end, his father came to me. Brought Sofia.Seven years since I'd see
The Don Didn't Recognize His Own Son Chapter 10
That same day, Lorenzo broke off the engagement with Sofia.I quit the bar. I moved into Lorenzo's estate.In a long conference room, Lorenzo held my hand and announced who I was to every one of the elders.He said I was his wife. The Donna of the family. My word was his word.Sofia wasn't going to take it.She made up a story and posted it online.She said I'd dumped Lorenzo for a million dollars without a second thought. That now I'd found out he was rich and rolling in cash, so I'd scraped up some kid from somewhere and called him Lorenzo's son. That right after Lorenzo got engaged, I'd come back to wreck the marriage with no shame at all.She also dug up photos of me from the bar work and posted those too.The internet swallowed her version whole. The hate came down like rain.I didn't have to do anything. Lorenzo handled it.He drove me out, found Sofia in some alley, and we cornered her.He had a gun. He tapped the barrel lightly against her temple."Sofia. After all this time ar
The Don Didn't Recognize His Own Son Chapter 9
The red light over the door went off and I was at the door before anyone moved.The doctor was tired. He told me Damian was stable for now. He couldn't say when, or if, he'd wake up. That was God's call.I stood outside his room like a piece of dead wood and looked at him through the glass.Tubes everywhere. He was so still on the bed. No color in his little face.Sofia was standing next to me. She couldn't hide the corners of her mouth.She sighed, half scolding, half pitying."Liana, if you'd told me sooner, I could have adopted Damian.""He has Lorenzo's blood. I wouldn't mind having him call me Mommy."She looked so light and carefree, as if Damian had fully recovered from his illness.Yet Damian was in a deep coma. And there was an unbridgeable chasm between me and Lorenzo.In this quiet little war of hers, she thought she'd won.She'd be his wife. She'd have his heart too.She didn't know me. She had no idea what kind of woman I was.I spent seven years hiding from Lorenzo becaus
The Don Didn't Recognize His Own Son Chapter 8
The red light over the emergency doors was on, bright red as Damian's blood.I slid down the wall, holding my head. I couldn't talk.Lorenzo crouched down. Reached for me.I caught his hand and bit it.He didn't move. Just let me bite.I bit so hard I broke his skin and split my own lip.The blood mixed. I couldn't tell whose was whose.It all tasted the same. Iron, and despair.I shoved him away and stood up and screamed at him."Lorenzo, why? Why do you have to keep doing this? Can't you just leave it alone? I was fine!"He grabbed my wrists. His face was white."Liana. You don't know why I came back? Seven years! I’ve been crazy missing you!""You were fine? You think I don't know you've been begging classmates for money? You think I don't know how you've been making rent?""I didn't do anything to you. You betrayed me. Why? Just tell me why."His face was a wreck. Tears running down it.He wanted an answer. Fine. I'd give him one.He was the only son of the Moretti family. Born to
The Don Didn't Recognize His Own Son Chapter 7
We were loud enough that Damian heard. He came running out barefoot.He stood in front of me, arms out, glaring up at Lorenzo, like a little knight guarding his princess.Lorenzo looked down at him and laughed, cruel. "Just like your mother. Cheap."Damian's eyes went red. He didn't move an inch.Same stubborn streak as his father.Under the pillow on Damian's bed was a photo. Me and Lorenzo, from before.He'd always known Lorenzo was his dad.When the pain got bad, he'd curl up in my arms and whisper Lorenzo's name.When he finally fell asleep, he'd dream about his dad coming home.His dad was a hero. He'd had to go away for important reasons, but he was coming back.His dad said he was a little hero. While his dad was gone, Damian was protecting Mom.When his dad came back, he wouldn't leave again. He'd stay with them.And as soon as Damian got better, they'd all go to Disney together.That was the dream. He'd wake up and there was just Lorenzo's mouth, twisted in disgust.And the wo
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