로그인공유
chapter 167
게시일:
2026-08-28 10:17:57
최신 챕터
The Don's Ruthless Empire chapter 450
POV: Matteo"How many letters," I asked, watching Vittoria's face carefully in the growing morning light, "and Vittoria, how long have you known about yours."Vittoria held up a folded envelope, its edges soft from handling, the same careful handwriting Concetta had described sitting plainly across its front. Gulls circled somewhere overhead, their cries sharp against the otherwise quiet morning, and for a moment the entire dock seemed suspended between the exhaustion of the night behind us and whatever new weight was about to be added to it. "Three days," she said. "The same as Concetta. I didn't tell you, Isabella, because I didn't understand it yet myself, and because after everything I confessed to this council last night, I wasn't certain I had the right to ask this family to absorb one more secret from me so soon."Isabella took the envelope gently from her sister's hands, opening it with the same careful reverence she had given every fragile truth this long night had handed her
The Don's Ruthless Empire chapter 449
POV: Isabella"You have your mother's jaw," I said to the woman standing at the edge of the dock, my voice unsteady with a kindness I hadn't planned to feel so quickly, "and you have no idea how strange it is to recognize a stranger's face at all."Concetta stepped off the small boat with the careful balance of someone unused to the water, a worn leather bag clutched against her chest the same way Enzo had clutched his folder only an hour before. She was smaller than I expected, gray threading through dark hair pulled back plainly, her eyes sweeping across all of us gathered on the dock with the wary calculation of a woman who had clearly learned young never to trust a warm welcome without questioning it first. The morning had turned the water behind her the color of pale gold, and for a moment she stood silhouetted against it like something out of a memory none of us had actually lived."I received a letter three days ago," she said, her voice careful, accented faintly by a life live
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
다른 추천
Falling For My Husband
Castiel311.7K 조회수Sold and Pregnant for the cold-hearted Billionaire
Lucia Love195.6K 조회수Obsession
Laila_Ali313181.7K 조회수You Can Run But...
AmonAvHs257.3K 조회수Yes To Your Demands
ambitious~øhimą269 조회수Ruined by The Mafia Heir
Shayla HArt1.5K 조회수The Widow's Reckoning
Jenny reeds 382 조회수HER VENGEANCE, HIS OBSESSION
Iseral S.88 조회수
