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The Don's Ruthless Empire chapter 448
POV: Matteo"Don't answer it," I said, my hand already moving toward Isabella's wrist as her phone kept ringing in the gray light, "not until we know who could possibly be calling at this hour, after everything this night has already cost us."She answered it anyway, because she had never once in the years I'd known her been able to leave a question unanswered when the answer might matter, and I watched her face change the moment the voice on the other end began speaking, the color draining slowly from her cheeks in a way that frightened me more than anything Enzo had said all night. Outside, the fog had begun to lift off the water, revealing the faint outline of the docks stretching further than any of us had realized in the dark."Say that again," she said quietly into the phone. "Slowly."The warehouse had gone completely still around us, everyone watching Isabella's face for whatever news was arriving through that single thin connection to the outside world. Nico had one arm still
The Don's Ruthless Empire chapter 447
POV: Isabella"A daughter," I repeated, my hands trembling around the photograph before I had even fully looked at it, "which means somewhere out there, Enzo, this family has a cousin none of us have ever known existed."The photograph showed a young woman, perhaps twenty, standing outside a small stone house with the sun behind her, squinting slightly at whoever held the camera. Something in the shape of her jaw felt suddenly, uncomfortably familiar, and I realized with a jolt that I was looking at a face that resembled my own sister more than it resembled anyone I had ever called family by blood alone. The edges of the photograph were soft with handling, as though it had spent years folded inside a wallet rather than framed on any wall."Her name is Concetta," Enzo said. "She would be in her fifties now, if she's still alive. I lost contact with her father years before I lost contact with the rest of this world, Isabella. I can't promise you she's still where I last knew her to be."
The Don's Ruthless Empire chapter 446
POV: Matteo"You expect us to believe," I said, stepping forward before Isabella could, "that a man erased from this family for fifty years is simply still out there, waiting to be found."Enzo turned his tired eyes on me, unbothered by the challenge in my voice. The wind outside had picked up, and somewhere along the far wall a loose door rattled steadily against its frame, an uneven rhythm none of us could ignore for long. "I don't expect you to believe anything, Matteo. I expect you to check. That's all I've ever wanted from any of you. Not trust. Verification.""Where," Isabella asked again, sharper now, the earlier shock in her voice hardening into something more useful."A village outside Palermo," Enzo said. "Under a name that isn't his own, living a life your father made certain none of you would ever think to look for. I've sent him money too, all these years, out of the same account your father built to fund my silence. Perhaps that's the one mercy your father managed. He er
The Don's Ruthless Empire chapter 445
POV: Isabella"You're smaller than I imagined," I said to the man standing in the half light of the old harbor warehouse, my voice steadier than I felt, "for someone who's held this family hostage to a lie for thirty years."Enzo did not look like the ghost I had built in my mind over the last few hours. He was an old man now, gray and stooped, dressed plainly, standing alone in the center of an empty warehouse floor with nothing in his hands but a folder held against his chest like something precious. The building smelled of salt and rust, and somewhere above us a loose panel of tin roofing creaked faintly in the wind coming off the water. Nico stood rigid beside me, Adrian a half step behind him, Matteo close enough that I could feel the tension radiating off him without needing to look. Dario stood a little apart from the rest of us, his shame from the drive over still written plainly across his face."I never wanted to hold anyone hostage," Enzo said, his voice thinner than I expe
The Don's Ruthless Empire chapter 444
POV: Matteo"Say it now," Camilla said, her voice trembling in a way I had never once heard from her in all the months I had watched her hold this council together, "before dawn makes a liar out of all of us."We had gathered back at the estate for less than twenty minutes, just long enough to arm ourselves with more than fear before the drive to the harbor, and Camilla had pulled me aside the moment Isabella stepped away to speak quietly with Nico. Her hands were folded tightly in front of her, the posture of someone rehearsing a confession she had been avoiding all night, and I noticed for the first time how tired she looked, the careful composure she wore like armor slipping at the edges."You said there was someone you hadn't ruled out," I said. "Tell me now, Camilla, before we walk into a warehouse with a man who already knows more about this family than we do."She was quiet long enough that I thought she might refuse entirely. "Dario," she said finally. "I think Dario has met E
The Don's Ruthless Empire chapter 443
POV: Isabella"You knew my father," I said, before Rosa had even finished sitting down, my voice sharper than I meant it, sharpened by hours of fear I hadn't been allowed to put down yet. "You knew him before any of us understood what he was."We had found her an hour before dawn, unharmed, sitting calmly in the back office of a shuttered bakery three streets from her own house, guarded by a man who called himself only a favor owed and who vanished the moment Nico pulled his mother into his arms. The office smelled of old flour and cold coffee, and a single bare bulb swung slightly overhead as though someone had brushed past it only moments before we arrived. Rosa had not been taken so much as removed, carefully, deliberately, kept safe by someone who apparently wanted her seen but not harmed, which frightened me more than violence would have.Rosa looked at me now with the particular calm of a woman who had spent decades being underestimated and had learned to use it. "I knew your fa
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