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The Don Who Denied His Own Son Chapter 9
Hope flashed across Nico's face. "Luca," he whispered, reaching out. "My boy."Luca moved back before Nico could touch him. He was five, dressed in a black suit my mother's tailor had made, but he looked steadier than most men in the room."Do not call me that," he said. "My father died the night he denied me in front of strangers and watched them beat my mother. You are Don Varrone. Nothing more."Nico made a broken sound.Luca took my hand. "My mother is Valentina Vitale. If you insult her again, I will remember it when I am old enough to sign orders. Take your family and go home to the wife and heir you chose."Then my son led me away without looking back.That was the last time I saw Nico Varrone alive.Rumors reached Palermo months later. Nico refused to complete the ceremony with Serena, then lost a war against his mother and captains. To prove he would never accept another heir, he even had himself sterilized, a gesture so late and useless that it only made him look pathetic.It
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I saw Nico again at my father's succession gala.The invitation came from the Commission, not from me, which meant the Varrones could not refuse. Every family with business in Italy came to Palermo to witness Don Alessandro Vitale name his heir.Nico arrived thinner than before. His suit was perfect, but exhaustion hollowed his face. Franca followed him with a tight smile, and Serena walked beside them with one hand on her stomach like a queen afraid someone would take her borrowed crown.They knelt with the rest of the guests when my father entered.Then Luca and I stepped onto the dais.Franca's face went white. Serena's mouth fell open. Nico stared at me as if the floor had vanished under him.Before anyone could stop him, he pushed through the crowd and grabbed my wrist. "Valentina. I finally found you. Do you know what you have put me through?"My father's guards had him on his knees in seconds."How dare you touch the heir of House Vitale," one of them said.Nico looked from the
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By the time Nico began tearing Boston apart, Luca and I were already home.Home was not the little cottage behind the Varrone estate. Home was the Vitale compound outside Palermo, where cypress trees lined the drive and armed men bowed their heads when our car passed.My father waited on the front steps.I had imagined anger. I had imagined judgment. I had imagined the great Don Alessandro Vitale standing cold and silent while I explained why his daughter had thrown away seven years for a man he warned her about.Instead, he saw the bruise on my face, the child in my arms, and the hand I kept pressed over my stomach.His expression crumpled. "My daughter." Then he pulled me against him like I was still the little girl who used to hide in his study during thunderstorms.My mother held Luca and cried openly. She kissed every inch of his face, called him our little prince in Italian, and ordered the kitchen to make enough food for an army because he looked too thin.No one asked why I ha
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Nico locked himself in our bedroom until morning.He read the messages over and over, waiting for the little delivered mark to change, waiting for a call, a knock, a sign that I had cooled down and was ready to be persuaded.At dawn, footsteps stopped outside the door.He smelled vanilla. His heart lurched. "Val?"He flung the door open and dragged the woman on the other side into his arms. "I knew it. I knew you could not leave me.""Nico..." Serena's voice killed the moment.He looked down. She was wearing my silk robe.For a second, he did not move. Then his face twisted with a rage so sudden Serena backed away."Take it off.""I only wore it because I wanted to take care of you," she stammered. "It was in the closet. I thought--""You thought wrong."He grabbed the sleeve and tore the robe from her shoulders.Serena gasped, clutching herself. "Have you lost your mind? I am carrying your child. I am supposed to be your wife."Nico's laugh was quiet and ugly."My wife? Do you really
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When Nico woke, the sky outside had turned gray.Someone had carried him to the bedroom in the main house, the room that had once been ours before I moved Luca to the cottage. A lamp burned low, and the air still held a trace of vanilla soap.A woman with long dark hair sat beside the bed and pressed a warm cloth to his forehead."Val," he breathed, pulling her into his arms. "You came back. I knew you would."Then he smelled roses.Serena clung to him. "Nico, you scared me. I thought you were really leaving me. I sent those people away from the cottage. We can live there if you want. You, me, and the baby."For the first time, her perfume made him sick. Nico shoved her away and got out of bed. "Do not touch me."He searched the room like I might be hiding behind a door. My clothes were gone. Luca's shoes were gone. The family pictures had been burned in the fireplace.On the dressing table sat the blackened remains of a wooden box.Nico picked it up with shaking hands. Inside were ash
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Before we left, I sent Nico one final message.[Mr. Varrone, Luca and I are gone. I wish you and Serena every happiness. Goodbye forever.]Then I snapped the SIM card and threw my phone into Boston Harbor.At the private airfield, Luca slept against my side with his toy car under his arm. My father's men moved around us in quiet, efficient lines. No one stared at my bruises, and no one asked questions. Vitale men knew better.When the plane rose through the clouds, Luca slept against me with tear-stained cheeks.That was how I left him: with one son beside me, another life beneath my heart, and not a single word left for Nico Varrone.Across the city, Nico stood on a stage with Serena's ring in his hand when my message reached him.His face drained of color."Nico," Serena whispered, still smiling for the guests. "Everyone is watching."He called me. Once, twice, ten times. The line went nowhere.Franca stepped closer. "Finish the ceremony."Nico stared at the screen, and for the first
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