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Cassius’s POVI don’t know how I crawled back to the penthouse.The apartment was dead silent. No lights. Cold as a tomb.Once, there was a warm lamp she left on for me. A hot soup waiting. A gentle smile.Now, there was nothing.I dragged my broken, bleeding leg across the expensive carpet, leaving a long, dark smear.I crawled into the master bedroom, into the walk-in closet, and opened her side.Empty.I had no more tears to cry.All I could see was the image of her in a wedding dress tomorrow, walking toward Nikolai.“Camilla… my Camilla…”My hand trembling, I pulled the gun I’d used to kill Bianca from my coat pocket.I had nothing left.My pride, my love, my child. I had destroyed it all myself.I was a cripple with nothing. A joke living in an endless hell of regret.I slowly put the cold barrel of the gun in my mouth and closed my eyes.A final, desperate tear slid from the corner of my eye.BANG.A muffled shot broke the silence of the penthouse. Blood and brain matter splatte
The Donna’s Final Gift Chapter 17
Camilla’s POVTwo weeks later, the night before the wedding.New York was hit by the storm of the decade.Fierce winds and torrential rain slammed against the windows of the Costa estate.I was sitting in the warm walk-in closet, looking through the last few wedding dress lookbooks flown in from Paris.My Enforcer, Roy, hurried in, his expression conflicted. “Ma’am. There’s someone outside… they’ve been kneeling in the storm for four hours.”My hand paused. “Who?”“Cassius Marino. He’s been stripped of his title. Kicked out of the family’s inner circle.” Roy lowered his head. “He says… he just wants to see you one last time. Say one thing to you. Then he’s ready to die.”I closed the lookbook and walked to the security monitors.Outside the estate’s massive, black iron gates, a man was leaning on a crude cane.He was kneeling in the mud and rain, soaked to the bone, looking like a stray dog.It was the once-untouchable Cassius.He was so thin his cheekbones jutted out. His once-perfect
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Camilla’s POVUnlike the blood and despair of the underground hospital, a transfer of power was taking place at the same moment in the Costa family’s lavish, Sicilian-style fortress on the Upper East Side.The grand dining hall was thick with cigar smoke. A dozen grizzled capos, their faces scarred from years of violence, sat on either side of a long table.These were the old guard, the men who had built the Costa empire with their own bloody hands. Their eyes were wild and untamed.At the head of the table sat the Costa family’s iron matriarch, Valentina.She wore a black velvet gown, her fingers slowly turning a string of blood-red prayer beads.The murderous glint in her eyes was more terrifying than that of any man in the room.I walked forward, hand-in-hand with Nikolai, dressed in a sharp, black silk gown.“So you’re the one. Camilla,” Valentina said, stopping the motion of her beads, her eyes scanning me up and down. “You sign divorce papers with the Marino kid, then you publicl
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Cassius’s POV“Cassius! I was wrong! Please, forgive me!”Bianca finally understood the game was up. Her mask was shattered.She crawled across the floor like a dog and clutched the leg of my bed.“Cassius, I may have done those things, but I truly love you! I was just jealous of my sister because I love you so much, I wanted to be with you… Please, after everything we’ve been through, forgive me just this once!”Looking at her disgusting face, listening to her lies, made my stomach turn.“Don’t touch me with your filthy hands!”I roared, grabbing the heavy brass lamp from the nightstand and bringing it down on her head with all my strength.“AGH!” Bianca shrieked as the lamp split her forehead open. Warm blood poured into her eyes.She clutched her head, saw the murder in my eyes, and knew that begging was useless.She had nothing left to lose. She scrambled to her feet, her face a bloody mess, and let out a shrill, mocking laugh.“Cassius, who are you to judge me? You think you’re st
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Cassius’s POVDozens of high-definition photos and documents spilled from the file onto my blood-stained hospital bed.I looked down.The moment my eyes hit the pictures, my world exploded.In the photos, Bianca—the same Bianca who acted so pure and innocent with me, blushing at a single touch—was in the grimy back rooms of Paris’s red-light district, wearing skimpy lingerie and straddling fat, old men.The next photo showed her being stripped naked and beaten in the street by a few burly Europeans after she was caught stealing from a client.She was bruised and naked, kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy like a dog in heat.But the worst were the medical receipts from a black-market clinic in Paris.Her name was printed clearly on them, next to the procedure: “Virginity Restoration.” Three separate times.“What… what is this… This can’t be real…”I was shaking violently, my fingers crushing the disgusting photos.“That is the pure, innocent fiancée you swore to protect!”Clari
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Cassius’s POVThe underground mafia hospital in Manhattan reeked of antiseptic and blood.I jolted awake on the hospital bed, my forehead slick with cold sweat, my heart squeezed tight by an invisible hand.I tried to sit up, but a tearing pain shot through my right leg, and I collapsed back onto the pillows.“Boss, you’re finally awake.”The man standing by my bed was North America’s top black-market surgeon.He pulled off his blood-stained gloves, his face grim.“What’s wrong with my leg? Why can’t I feel anything below the knee?” I demanded, my voice a raw rasp.The doctor took a deep breath and delivered the sentence. “That shot from Nikolai’s man was nasty. The bullet only went through your calf, but the bone fragments acted like razors. They completely severed the main nerve. And because you forced yourself to stand on it back at the estate, you missed the window for a successful repair…”“Shut up! Just give it to me straight!” I roared, grabbing the glass of water from the night
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