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The Don's Ruthless Empire chapter 580
POV: Matteo"A Don, a Don, give us a Don! Marabella was safe when one hand held the whip. Bring back the chair, and bring back Matteo!"I am Matteo, and I heard it from Pietro Valenti, who had leapt onto a bench at the back of the hall with his fist in the air and flour still dusting his sleeves. In the half hour since Greaves had spoken, the council hall had turned into a stormy sea. People were shouting. Women were weeping. Guards held Greaves by both arms, and he stood between them with a calm, bored expression, as if he were waiting for a coach."Silence!" Dario thundered. "Silence, or I will clear this room!"It did no good. The chant rolled across the stone floor, picked up by fifty voices, then a hundred. A Don. A Don. The sound beat against my ribs like the hammering of a great drum."This is madness," Camilla said coldly, standing at the table. "The Voice is one of five people. One. We will find who.""How?" Lucan had risen. His face was drawn and white, but his voice was ste
The Don's Ruthless Empire chapter 579
POV: Isabella"Mother says if you are afraid, I should walk in first. Then they must look at me before they look at you. Will you let me, Isabella?"I am Isabella, and Tomas said it in the cold gray corridor outside the council hall at eleven o'clock on Sunday morning. I had been standing alone against the stone wall, with my hands knotted together and my breath coming short. I had expected anyone but him. I looked up and he was there with his hat in his hand, pale and unshaven, with his father's long nose and his father's tired eyes."Your mother is dead, Tomas.""My mother is dead." He tried to smile. "But she is the one I hear. My father sat up all night with a candle and told me what she said when she was sick. She told him, if the boy ever finds out, tell him to forgive the people who loved him enough to lie. She said love is clumsy sometimes.""Tomas.""I am not saying I forgive you today." His voice cracked. "I am saying I am here."I did not trust myself to speak. I only reach
The Don's Ruthless Empire chapter 578
POV: Matteo"Sit down, Matteo. You look dreadful. I made tea. It is only tea, I promise, and you may watch me drink from the pot first."I am Matteo, and it was Lucan Costa who said it, sitting calmly behind his desk at midnight on Saturday with a teapot between his hands. I had broken in with Adrian's lockpicks and a trembling conscience. Livia and Adrian were waiting at the end of the corridor in the dark. I had told them to stay hidden. I had told them whatever happened, I would walk out alone.His office was small and tidy, lined with law books. A fire crackled low in the grate. In the corner stood a squat iron strongbox, its lid open, and on top of it sat the tin box with Isabella's evidence."I expected you earlier," Lucan said, pouring. "Your wife has been very busy. She has been to the bank, to Ferrante's house, to Camilla's, to the doctor. Everyone in the lane knows it.""You had us watched.""Of course." His smile was kind and sad. "Do you really think I am a fool?""No. I t
The Don's Ruthless Empire chapter 577
POV: Isabella"You never begged anyone for anything, Isabella. Not once in forty years. So tell me why a proud woman is standing on my doorstep at seven in the morning, shaking."I am Isabella, and Ferrante Aurelio said it from the top of his own front steps in a loose gray robe, with his hair uncombed and a half empty glass in his hand. The street was wet and silver with morning. A baker's boy ran past, whistling. I stood below Ferrante with my hood pushed back and my hands clenched at my sides."Because the proof is gone," I said. "Every single piece. The stamps. The notes. The page in my own hand. Dario found the vault empty last night. I have nothing left to put in front of the council tomorrow but my own voice.""I am sorry to hear it.""No, you are not. You voted against dismissal and said God forgive me."He winced. The glass shook in his fingers. "Come inside."His sitting room was dim and cold, the fire not yet lit. A dozen unpaid bills lay across the desk in a heap. A portra
The Don's Ruthless Empire chapter 576
POV: Matteo"Dario, I did not come here to accuse you. I came to ask a question, and I need you to answer it like the man who carried me out of the fire."I am Matteo, and I said it at midnight on Friday in the vault corridor beneath the council hall. The air smelled of cold stone and lamp oil. Dario stood in front of the great iron door with a lantern in his fist, and the light threw his shadow long across the floor. He was exhausted. His collar was open. There were deep gray smudges under his eyes.Isabella's letters from the doctor were folded in my coat. I had read them twice. I had not slept. I had told Isabella I would speak to him alone, because if we came together it would look like an ambush and she was already being watched. She had stared at me for a long time, then kissed my knuckles and let me go."Ask," Dario said."For two years someone has been drugging me. A doctor, acting on council orders, countersigned by you."Dario did not move. The lantern flame shook once."Wha
The Don's Ruthless Empire chapter 575
POV: Isabella"Put the bottle on the table, Ambrose. Slowly. Then look me in the eye and tell me what you have been pouring into my husband for two years."I am Isabella, and I said it very quietly in the small, tidy surgery on Rope Street, with the door locked behind me and the key in my fist. Dr. Ambrose Vell sat across the desk with his hands spread on the wood. He was a gentle man with white whiskers and kind eyes, and he had delivered my second grandchild at three in the morning in a thunderstorm. Now his face had gone the color of candle wax.The brown tonic bottle stood between us. I had carried it from my own bedside cabinet through the streets in my cloak pocket, afraid that if I put it down I would throw it."Isabella, please." His voice trembled. "Whatever Matteo told you...""Matteo told me nothing. He could not stand when he came home." I laid the little paper packet next to the bottle. Livia had pressed it into my hand at the door with Matteo asleep upstairs, his breathi
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