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Chapter 167: The DNA Question (Again)
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The Vitale Brothers Ruined Me, Then Made Me Their Queen Chapter 230: The Family Dinner
The dining room table is a river of mahogany that stretches down the center of the hall.Years ago—in Chapter Eleven, if I were counting the pages of my life—this table was a battlefield. It was a place of silence and scrutiny, where Aureliano sat at the head like a judge, and I sat at the foot like a defendant waiting for sentencing. The air then smelled of lemon polish and fear. The only sound was the scrape of silver against china.Tonight, the table is a riot.It is Sunday. The windows are open, letting in the cool evening breeze off the Mediterranean, but the air inside is warm, thick with the scent of rosemary roast lamb, garlic mashed potatoes, and the heavy, oaky aroma of the vintage Barolo breathing in the decanters.The silence is dead. It has been murdered by a cacophony of life.I sit at the foot of the table—my choice. From here, I can see the entire kingdom.Aureliano sits at the head. The King. He is wearing a white linen shirt, the sleeves rolled up to expose his forea
The Vitale Brothers Ruined Me, Then Made Me Their Queen Chapter 229: Vignette: Spadino
The kitchen at 10:00 AM is a battlefield of sunlight and flour.I walk in, wearing a silk robe over nothing, my hair still damp from the shower. The house is quiet—the kids are at school, Aureliano is at the tower, Ciro is at the gym—but the kitchen is vibrating with chaotic energy.Spadino is making pancakes.Or rather, he is declaring war on batter.He is wearing pajama pants and an apron that says Kiss the Cook or Die. He is dancing to a fast, brassy jazz record playing on the vintage turntable he insisted on buying. He spins, flipping a pancake high into the air. It hits the ceiling, sticks for a second, and then peels off, landing perfectly in the pan."Ten points!" Spadino cheers to the empty room.He spots me.He freezes mid-spin. The spatula drops to the counter.His gold eyes widen. He scans me, taking in the wet hair, the loose robe, the flush on my skin from the steam of the shower. The playful grin on his face sharpens into something wicked."Good morning, sunshine," he pu
The Vitale Brothers Ruined Me, Then Made Me Their Queen Chapter 228: Vignette: Ciro
The gym at 2:00 AM is a temple of silence and iron.It is located in the basement, carved out of the bedrock beneath the mansion. The air here is always cooler than the rest of the house, smelling of rubber mats, cold steel, and the faint, permanent musk of male sweat.I walk down the spiral staircase. My bare feet make no sound on the metal steps. I am wearing Aureliano’s silk robe, cinched tight at the waist, but underneath, I am naked.Ciro is there.He isn't training. He isn't hitting the heavy bag or lifting the iron plates that would crush a normal man.He is checking the window latches.They are reinforced steel shutters, locked from the inside with a biometric scanner. They are impenetrable. But Ciro checks them anyway. He runs his large hand along the seal, testing for a draft, for a weakness, for a microscopic flaw that doesn't exist.I watch him.He is older now. The grey in his beard is more pronounced than in Aureliano’s hair—a salt-and-pepper testament to the years he sp
The Vitale Brothers Ruined Me, Then Made Me Their Queen Chapter 227: Vignette: Aureliano
The door to the master suite clicks shut, severing the connection to the world below.The hum of the gala—the clinking glasses, the murmured deference, the string quartet—is gone. Here, in the sanctuary of the top floor, there is only the sound of the ocean crashing against the cliffs and the heavy, rhythmic breathing of the King.Aureliano walks to the center of the room.He doesn't slump. He doesn't show the exhaustion of a man who just shook three hundred hands and solidified an empire. He stands taller, stripping off the public mask to reveal the predator underneath.He undoes his bowtie. The black silk slides from his collar with a soft hiss. He drops it on the bench at the foot of the bed.He turns to me.I am standing by the vanity, watching him in the mirror. The gold dress is heavy, a suit of armor that has served its purpose.Aureliano meets my gaze in the glass.His grey eyes are clear. The storm that usually rages there has settled into a deep, calm ocean. It is the look o
The Vitale Brothers Ruined Me, Then Made Me Their Queen Chapter 226: The Power
The Grand Ballroom of the Vitale Tower is a study in excess.Crystal chandeliers hang from the vaulted ceiling like frozen waterfalls, their light fracturing into a million rainbows. The floor is black marble, polished to a mirror shine that reflects the shoes of the most dangerous people in Europe.Tonight is the Annual Gala.Once, this event was a place where I would have been "the help," or at best, "the date." I would have stood in the corner, clutching a purse I couldn't afford, waiting for a man to tell me when I could speak.Tonight, I am the reason they are here.I stand at the top of the sweeping glass staircase.I am wearing gold again.But this isn't the simple slip dress of the first portrait. This is a gown made of liquid metal, structured and heavy. It has long sleeves, a high neck, and a back that plunges to my waist. It is armor disguised as fashion.My hair is slicked back, severe and elegant. My lips are painted a dark, bruised plum.I look down at the crowd.Three h
The Vitale Brothers Ruined Me, Then Made Me Their Queen Chapter 225: The Gratitude
The cemetery is quiet.It isn't the heavy, loaded silence of the Vitale mansion, nor the tactical silence of an ambush. It is the simple, indifferent silence of the dead. They have nothing left to say.I walk down the gravel path. The sun has set, leaving the sky a bruised purple that reflects off the marble headstones. The air smells of damp cypress needles and wet earth—the same smell as the day of the funeral, seven years ago.I am not wearing the oversized black coat today. I am wearing a white silk blouse and trousers that cost more than my father made in a year. My heels sink slightly into the soft ground, but I do not falter.I stop at the grave.It is simple. A grey stone marker, weathered by the salt air. Matteo. 1965-2018.There are no flowers. There are no candles. The grass is overgrown, encroaching on the name.I stand there, looking down at the man who gave me life and then sold it to cover a wager.I wait for the anger.I wait for the rage that fueled me for so long. Th
The Vitale Brothers Ruined Me, Then Made Me Their Queen Chapter 62: The Vigil
The rhythm of the room is a metronome counting down the seconds of a life.Beep... beep... beep.It is the only sound in the world.I am sitting in a chair that has become an extension of my spine. I haven't moved in forty-eight hours. My muscles have atrophied, locking into a permanent hunch over
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The hospital smells of bleach and old pain.It is a specific, chemical scent that burns the inside of my nose, trying to mask the underlying odor of sickness and fear. But it can't mask the smell on me.I smell like copper. I smell like iron. I smell like Ciro.I am sitting on a plastic chair in th
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2026-04-05The Vitale Brothers Ruined Me, Then Made Me Their Queen Chapter 59: Sanctuary Breached
The silence of the crypt breaks.Not with a whisper. Not with a footstep.With a crash.The heavy wooden doors at the top of the stairs fly open, hitting the stone walls with a violence that shakes dust from the ceiling.Boom.The sound echoes in the small, enclosed space like a bomb going off. My
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It is two in the morning.The house is sleeping. The monsters are in their caves.But the light under the library door is still on.I stand in the hallway. I am wearing my oversized t-shirt, my bare feet cold on the marble. I am shivering, but not from the temperature.I am shivering because I am a
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