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The Don's Ruthless Empire chapter 440
POV: Matteo"Say it plainly," I said, watching Isabella's face go rigid beside me as the entire room held its breath waiting for Salvatore's answer. "No riddles, no old man's careful phrasing. Plainly, now."Salvatore's hands were still trembling against the table, and for the first time in the years I had known him, the steady authority he carried into every dangerous room seemed to have entirely deserted him. "Your father told me, before he died, that the account was severance," he said quietly. "Payment to a man who had served this family loyally for decades and deserved a quiet retirement rather than public thanks. I never questioned it, Isabella. I had no reason to believe your father was still capable of lying to me from beyond his own grave.""But you kept paying it," Dario said, his earlier fury returning sharpened into something colder. "For years, without ever once verifying what it actually funded.""Yes," Salvatore said, and the single word seemed to cost him everything he
The Don's Ruthless Empire chapter 439
POV: Isabella"You are asking this council," Dario said slowly, his voice carrying the particular disbelief of a man watching every assumption of his life collapse in real time, "to accept that the entire founding conflict of this family was built on covering up a murder instead of avenging one."I stood at the head of the council table with Vittoria seated quietly beside me, her hand resting in mine beneath the polished wood exactly the way it had rested in the shed only hours earlier, and I made myself meet every pair of eyes in that room without flinching, the way my mother never had the chance to. "I am not asking you to accept anything," I said. "I am telling you what my sister witnessed as a child, what a paid silence protected for thirty years, and what I intend to do about it regardless of whether this council chooses to stand beside me."Salvatore rose slowly from his seat, his expression grave in a way I had rarely seen from a man who had spent decades mediating worse rooms
The Don's Ruthless Empire chapter 438
POV: Matteo"Tell her," Bernardo said quietly, when Vittoria's silence had stretched long enough to become its own kind of answer. "You have carried this alone for sixty years. Let her carry it with you now."I watched Isabella kneel in front of her sister in the pale grey light of the shed, taking both of Vittoria's trembling hands in her own with a gentleness that reminded me exactly why this family had survived every disaster it had ever faced. "Whatever it is," Isabella said, "I am not leaving until you tell me, and I am not leaving angry no matter what it turns out to be."Vittoria closed her eyes, and when she finally spoke, her voice carried the particular exhaustion of a secret finally allowed to leave a body that had held it for far too long. "I was twelve the night your father sent me away," she said. "I did not understand yet why, only that your mother was crying, and that a man I had never met before was standing in the corner of her study, arguing with your father in a vo
The Don's Ruthless Empire chapter 437
POV: Isabella"Faster," I said, my hands white knuckled against the dashboard as Nico took the coastal road at a speed that made every turn feel like the last one we might survive.Matteo sat rigid beside me in the back seat, his phone pressed to his ear, relaying updates from Camilla's remaining men who had reached the orchard ahead of us and found it dark, silent, and undisturbed in a way that felt somehow worse than finding it ransacked. "Nothing yet," he said grimly, lowering the phone. "No sign of forced entry. No sign of Vittoria either.""That does not mean she is safe," I said, though I was saying it as much for myself as for him.Nico's knuckles were pale against the wheel, his eyes fixed on the winding road ahead. "Isabella, panicking will not get us there faster. Trust the plan. Trust Bernardo. He has kept her safe for thirty years without any of our help.""Thirty years of quiet is not the same as tonight," I said. "Tonight someone is actively looking for her.""I know," N
The Don's Ruthless Empire chapter 436
POV: Matteo"Say that again," I said, feeling every muscle in my body go tense at once, "and this time tell us exactly who you mean."Renzo glanced back toward the darkened vineyard behind him as though he expected someone to be standing there listening, and the gesture alone was enough to make Nico's hand drift instinctively toward his coat. "There were two of us who knew the truth about Vittoria," Renzo said quietly. "Myself, and one other, a man your father trusted completely because he believed loyalty could be bought permanently instead of merely rented for a season.""A name," Isabella said, her voice tight with a fear I recognized from every dangerous night we had survived together. "Give us a name, Renzo, or this conversation ends here.""I understand your anger," Renzo said quietly, "but anger will not make a name appear that I never had the luxury of learning. Your father was careful to keep us separate, precisely so neither of us could ever expose the other.""Convenient,"
The Don's Ruthless Empire chapter 435
POV: Isabella"Absolutely not," Nico said, stepping between me and the doorway before I had even finished reaching for my coat. "Not without protection, and not without me."I understood his fear, could see it plainly in the set of his shoulders, the same fear he had carried since the night Adrian was taken, but I could not make myself share it fully, not after everything Vittoria had told me at the coast. "Nico, Renzo has had thirty years to hurt this family and chose instead to spend every one of them protecting my sister. Whatever he wants tonight, I do not believe it is violence.""Belief is not the same as certainty," Nico said, "and I have already failed to protect this family once this month."Matteo set a steady hand on Nico's shoulder. "You did not fail anyone, Nico. Adrian is standing in this doorway alive because of what you taught him, not despite it. Let that count for something tonight."Nico did not answer immediately, his jaw tight with an old, familiar guilt he clearl
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