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“What are you going to do?”Elena’s voice was hoarse.“Tell everyone the truth.”I turned off the TV.“You don’t have to sign. Tomorrow, the full footage and the message history go to Marcello’s lawyer and to every Elder in the Vitale Family.“Then everyone will know you weren’t a victim coerced by the underboss. You were a woman who willingly betrayed her husband, then framed her lover to keep her place as Donna.”Elena sank to the floor.Marcello was filing an appeal.The moment that evidence went public, he might not walk free right away, but it would be enough to put her on the hook for filing a false report and perjury.More importantly, the Vitale Family would never protect a Donna who had betrayed both the Don and his own blood.“Leon, you’re ruthless.”She looked up at me, the pleading in her eyes slowly turning into resentment.“You made me destroy Marcello, and now you’re using that against me to force me out. You never intended to forgive me.”“No.”“Then why did you hold me
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The day Marcello’s sentence became official, I returned to the estate and placed two documents in front of Elena.She was sitting on the couch, watching the court coverage.On screen, Marcello was being loaded into a prison transport. She watched her former lover with something close to relief.“Leon, what’s this?”She picked up the top document.It was a divorce and asset settlement agreement.Beneath it lay the Vitale Family’s formal notice stripping her of her Donna title.The smile vanished from Elena’s face.“What do you mean by this?”“Exactly what it says.” I sat down across from her. “Sign it.”“Why?” Tears came instantly. “Because Marcello touched me, you think I’m dirty now?“I’m the victim. You said you’d protect me.”“Elena, drop the act.”Her crying stopped.“Remember the cream pastry at home?“You said Sophia brought it. But that night she was three hundred miles away, sealing a shipment with me.”The color drained from Elena’s face.“From that moment, I knew another man
The Donna Who Betrayed Me Chapter 6
Elena and I went to the police station together, her as the victim, me as the husband.She broke down crying several times in front of the female officer but never forgot a single detail that made Marcello look guilty.She described how he’d approached her while I was away, threatened to tear the Family apart, and forced her to meet him at the hotel again and again.I sat beside her the entire time, handing her tissues and helping with the dates and times she couldn’t remember.When her hands grew cold, I held them. When she said she was scared, I had my lawyer pause the questioning.To everyone else, I was a husband standing by his wife no matter what.Only I knew that every small act of care brought seven years of memories rushing back.She’d once sat by my bed all night when I was wounded. The first time I took the Don’s seat, she’d pulled me into an empty corridor just to straighten my bloodstained collar.Those moments had been real.That was precisely why every betrayal that came
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The NYPD Special Victims Unit officers came through the door first.Two officers pinned Marcello to the floor while Elena clutched her torn clothes to her body, crying no over and over.Marcello still thought she was putting on an act.“Get off me! She was willing!”Behind the officers came the hotel manager, my lawyer, and two PR consultants for the Vitale Family.Everyone saw the blood on my lip and Marcello on top of the Donna.I didn’t try to explain anything. I simply told my lawyer to preserve the full police record and the hallway surveillance footage.The evidence would say the rest for me.A female officer draped a blanket over Elena. She was trembling.I stood by the door and watched her.She noticed me watching and slowly stopped crying.I didn’t rush her. I simply picked up the Donna’s pin from the floor and held it in my hand.Elena stared at the pin and finally made her choice.“He forced me.”Marcello stopped struggling.She raised her hand and pointed at him, her voice
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The bed was still unmade, and one of Marcello’s cuff links lay beside the pillow.Elena stood in the doorway, forcing herself to smile.“This is someone else’s room. Let’s go.”I locked the door behind us and turned on the TV.On the screen, she was sitting in Marcello’s lap, unbuttoning his shirt.A moment later, her voice filled the room.“Turn it off… Leon, please turn it off.”She lunged for the remote. I grabbed it first and kept the recording playing.On screen, Marcello asked her, “What if Leon comes back right now?”Elena smiled and kissed him.“He could never bring himself to blame me. As long as I cry, he always ends up comforting me.”I looked at Elena standing in front of me.She was already on her knees, her tears falling right on cue.“It was only this once. Marcello forced me. He said you’d be away from New York for a while. If I refused, he’d cause trouble inside the Family.”Even with the truth playing right in front of her, she still thought a few tears could turn her
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I hadn’t raised my voice, but the lobby went quiet.Marcello stopped and turned. By the time he faced me, surprise was already plastered across his face.“Don? Nick said you’d be at the North Dock.”What he’d blurted out was the real question: how my movements had slipped out of his control.“Do I need to report my whereabouts to you?”Marcello held my gaze for two seconds, then lowered his head. “Of course not.”“Did you revise the casino contract?”“I have a meeting here to renegotiate the bid.”Elena immediately moved closer to me.“Oh, Marcello’s here too? Perfect.”She looked up at me and smiled as if she’d only just noticed him.“Your brother handles so much for you. Even if he doesn’t get the credit, he deserves something for all the work he puts in. If there isn’t anything seriously wrong with the contract, give it to his people.”She still wore the Donna’s pin I’d placed on her chest. Just beneath it were the hickeys Marcello had left on her minutes earlier.Looking at her, I
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