The Donna’s Reckoning

Five months into my pregnancy, my husband, Luca DeSantis, secretly proposed to his childhood sweetheart, Anna Taylor, behind my back. When I confronted him, he remained perfectly calm. "Anna has cancer. Her dying wish is to marry me." "What about me?" I asked, stroking my belly, trying to bring Luca to his senses. He didn’t care. "Move out for now. Once she can pass away in peace, I’ll remarry you." Everyone assumed I would wait for him. After all, I was already five months pregnant. But after the divorce, I did something no one expected. I left the place where I’d suffered so much heartache and disappeared from Luca’s world for good. Five years later, I returned as the Donna, accompanying my mafia husband, Lorenzo Capello, to inspect one of his family’s bases. An unexpected gang dispute required Lorenzo’s attention, so he sent me and our son, Raymond, ahead to the welcome party. But to my surprise, Luca was the one hosting it. The moment he saw me, he stormed over, seething with anger. "Freya, you actually have the nerve to come back? Don’t think you can cling to me just because you see how successful I’ve become!" Then he glanced at Raymond, looking smug. "But since you gave me a child, I’ll let you stay at my house. You can work as Anna’s maid." I shielded Raymond and gave a cold laugh. What Luca didn’t know was that the baby we’d conceived together had been lost in an accident years ago. The child standing before him was the son of Lorenzo Capello, the Don, and me—and the next Don of the entire Capello family.