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The Price of the Mafia’s Test

The Price of the Mafia’s Test

Short Story · Mafia
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Winning Back the Wife

Bias

Regret

Awakening

Tragic Love

Mafia

My boyfriend is the heir to Sicily's top mafia clan. To test my loyalty, he never spent a single dime on me during our five years together. Even when we bought condoms, he insisted we split the bill fifty-fifty. Last week, I was in a car accident. To save the baby in my womb, I urgently needed $1,000 for emergency surgery. I called him from the hospital, begging for the money, but he accused me of lying to extort cash from him and hung up. Desperate, I begged every friend and contact I knew. By the time I finally scraped the sum together, a unbearable pain tore through my abdomen—my baby's heart had already stopped beating. After burying my baby, I went back to pack my bags. That was when I accidentally found a birthday gift list he had prepared for his childhood neighbor, Nadia. A luxury yacht, a star named after her, and endless designer goods. Right then, his voice drifted in from the next room as he spoke on a phone call with his underbosses. "Hey Boss, is it true Elena begged you for a grand?" Dante Moretti scoffed arrogantly. "Yeah, and I stood my ground and refused. Nadia is right. Elena is just a helpless orphan who can't leave me. But to enter my family, she has to pass a strict test. It’s almost over. She’ll realize I did all this for her own good." So my five years of devotion, and my baby's life, were nothing more than a twisted test for a repulsive mafia title. Whatever. It didn't matter anymore. The moment the doctor announced my baby was dead, I had already decided to walk away from him forever.

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Eveline Albers
Eveline Albers
chapter 7 is out of place, with that one the story just ends. the moment you read chapter 8 it's pretty much the same as chapter 7 at the start but continues the story to the following chapters
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Chapter 1
The front door clicked open just as I put the gift list back.Dante walked in, smelling of expensive tobacco, and collapsed onto the sofa next to me with his usual arrogant swagger."So you’re finally back," he said, lecturing me like a child. "Are you still throwing a fit because I didn't give you the cash? Learn from Nadia and grow up, Elena. You'll realize later it’s all for our future."He looked so earnest, acting as if this was all pure, well-meaning love. But the real message was short and brutal: he needed to constantly test me to prove I wasn't after his money, just to see if I was worthy of his family.He leaned in to hug me, but I slid away, completely dodging his arms.Dante froze for a second, staring at his empty hands before glaring at me. To him, I was just throwing a childish tantrum over a petty $1,000."Stop acting out. I’m exhausted from work. Go make me some dinner," he commanded, instantly switching back to his mob-boss routine.His attitude wasn't like this when
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Chapter 2
Dante and I had rented this forty-square-meter apartment right after we started dating.After graduation, I wanted a better-paying job, but on my tight budget, I could only afford a tiny, suffocating room deep in the industrial slums. Dante hated it. He complained the neighborhood was a dump and the commute was too long. He flat out said the awful environment ruined his mood whenever he wanted to have sex, so he insisted we move in together.To pay my half of the rent in this expensive city, I worked a brutal second job, sacrificing all my sleep and free time. Now, he was turning our five years together into a cheap scam, acting like I was the one ripping him off."Dante... after five years, what did you actually take me for?"My tears fell out of pure self-pity. Five years of my youth, completely wasted on a monster.Seeing my tears, the hand holding the phone in my face twitched, and he slowly pulled it back. "I was just joking. At worst, we can just..."Before he could finish, Nadi
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Chapter 3
In the dead of night, I dragged my heavy suitcases down the deserted, freezing streets. Sicily offered no sanctuary for me, and I had no reason to stay. My baby was gone, and my relationship was in ashes. Remaining here would only prolong the agony.With nowhere left to go, I spent the rest of the night shivering on a cold wooden bench in a lonely public park.The next morning, I walked straight into the office and handed in my resignation.My supervisor looked completely blindsided."Quitting? Did Mr. Moretti approve this? Oh, by the way, since you're leaving mid-month, your current bonus won't amount to much. I'll have the remaining balance wired to the secondary account on file, then."I frowned, completely lost. What secondary account? Since when did I have an accrued bonus? And why on earth would Dante need to approve my resignation from a regular corporate job?Noticing my blank stare, my supervisor grew equally confused."Aren't you and Mr. Moretti together? It was Mr. Moretti h
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Chapter 4
The clearer I saw Dante's true colors, the more I realized how blind I had been during those five long years.Around us, the other office employees began whispering and pointing at me. Seeing that Dante did absolutely nothing to shut them down, their voices grew bolder and louder."Mr. Moretti hid his mafia background just so Elena wouldn't feel insecure. He even ordered all of us to keep his identity a secret. That shows how deeply he cared about her.""She’s been living in his apartment, and she still has the nerve to throw a fit at him?""A nobody trying to gold-dig her way into a mafia family... she needs to look in a mirror. Without Mr. Moretti, she’s absolutely nothing."The more the crowd gossiped, the more smug Dante's expression became. Nadia kept fueling the fire, piling fabricated accusations onto my head."Elena, didn't you fake a car accident just to exploit his kindness and scam him for cash? You love playing the victim even when you're hunting for money."Her words were
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Chapter 5
On top of skimming my hard-earned bonuses and raises, Dante had intentionally played dumb, refusing to approve my basic corporate benefits. He had even personally ordered the manager to cancel my emergency salary advance.It was a mere $1,000. Why couldn't he just let me have it? Why did he have to go out of his way to destroy me?Thinking back on everything I had sacrificed for Dante over the last five years, I realized I had been a pathetic fool. If I had worked at any normal company, I wouldn't have been so exhausted. I would have had plenty of savings, and my baby would still be alive today.If only I had never met Dante Moretti.The very colleagues who, seconds ago, were bashing me for faking an accident suddenly went completely white. Every single one of them lowered their heads, unable to meet my eyes.The slap to their faces had come faster than anyone anticipated.Yet, because the man standing across from them was Dante Moretti, a powerful mafia heir, no one dared to voice a w
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Chapter 6
"Dante," Nadia cried. "That baby thing is probably just another one of her lies to guilt you. Don't let her trick you! Even if it's true, so what? It’s no big deal! At least now she can never use a pathetic excuse like that to grift your family's money ever again."For a split second, Dante looked at the girl in front of him and felt a wave of chilling unfamiliarity."That was my first child," Dante growled, his voice trembling with a terrifying undertone. "You know how desperately I wanted a child. You know how much my family values our bloodline!"He turned to run after me, but Nadia grabbed his arm. "If you go chasing after her now, you’re just giving her the leverage to walk all over you! Dante, if it weren't for you giving Elena a job at the firm, she wouldn't even have a roof over her head!"Dante looked at her, disgust boiling over. He knew exactly how brilliant and capable I was. Under my strategic leadership, the firm’s market valuation had skyrocketed over the past few years.
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Chapter 7
For the next three days, Dante unleashed the full force of his mafia syndicate’s tracking assets, turning the city upside down to hunt me down. He placed his family’s extensive intelligence network on absolute high alert, desperate to locate the woman who had dared to vanish from his gilded cage. I knew exactly how he operated, which was precisely why I refused to sit idle and wait to be caught.Instead of hiding in fear, I dug through my old personal contacts until I found the number of my childhood best friend. She had climbed the ranks to become a top-tier corporate lawyer, completely removed from the corrupt underworld Dante commanded. With a steady hand, I typed out a direct message and sent it through WhatsApp.I watched the screen breathlessly until the two gray checkmarks rapidly turned blue. She hadn't deleted me, nor had she forgotten our bond.Leveraging our lifelong connection, we locked down a face-to-face meeting at a secluded diner within a few hours. I didn't hold bac
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Chapter 8
I returned to my family's old, empty house, a place that had stood silent for years. The exact instant I turned the key, unlocked the door, and stepped inside, the rigid walls I had forced myself to build completely crumbled. The silence of the house magnified my grief, and tears flooded my eyes before I could even drop my bags.I collapsed onto the old bed, curling my body tightly inward as I clutched my empty abdomen against my chest. The pain was physical, a heavy, suffocating ache that tore through me as I sobbed uncontrollably into the dark."You deserved to see the light of day, my sweet little one, and the guilt of failing to secure that surgery in time will haunt me forever.""The world was cruel to us, but my inability to protect you from their malice is a burden I will carry for the rest of my days.""Please know that you were loved from the very moment you began, even if I was too weak to shield you from the storm."My heart felt completely lacerated by the agonizing weight
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Chapter 9
That afternoon, I finally made time to visit the local clinic for my long-overdue post-surgery checkup. Ever since I arrived in this valley town, I had been working myself to the bone, entirely ignoring the doctor's previous warnings about my critical physical condition.As I sat in the waiting room, a familiar figure stepped through the clinic doors. It was Julian. He was here to drop off an agricultural water safety report for the county health inspector, but the moment his eyes landed on me sitting in the row of plastic chairs, his face filled with immediate concern.He walked straight over, bypassing his errand entirely, and sat down beside me. He didn't pry or ask invasive questions; he simply stayed by my side, quietly accompanying me through the entire examination. When the doctor gently scolded me for being severely malnourished and neglecting my recovery after the miscarriage, Julian listened with absolute seriousness, nodding along to every dietary restriction and lifestyle r
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Chapter 10
Within fifteen minutes, a steaming plate of pasta was placed gently in front of me. When I was halfway through the meal, Julian leaned back against the porch railing, a quiet smile playing on his lips."Full?"Whenever I neared my limit, my eating speed would naturally slow down. Because I deeply respected the care he put into cooking, I always tried to clear the plate, even if it meant taking slow, tiny bites."If you're full, don't force yourself," Julian said softly, reaching over to gently take the fork from my hand. "Overeating will only make you uncomfortable after your surgery."I bit my lip, breaking into a genuine laugh. "Julian, do you have some kind of telepathic link to my brain? How do you always know exactly what I'm thinking?""It’s not magic, Elena. Your heart is so beautifully honest that everything you feel is written right there on your face. It’s impossible not to notice."Beautifully honest? It was the first time in my entire life anyone had ever used those words t
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