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Chapter 168: The Fourth Trimester
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The Vitale Brothers Ruined Me, Then Made Me Their Queen Chapter 236: The Wife
The sun is dipping low over the Mediterranean, casting long, bruised shadows across the manicured lawn of the estate. The heat of the day has broken, replaced by a golden, honeyed warmth that smells of cut grass and the salt spray rising from the cliffs below.I stand on the terrace steps, barefoot on the warm stone.I am watching a war.But it isn't a war fought with guns or knives or leverage. It is a soccer game.The teams are uneven. It is the Vitale men against the Vitale children.It is a massacre, but not in the way one would expect.Maria, thirteen and ruthless, is dribbling the ball with a speed that blurs the eye. She cuts left, feints right, and leaves Spadino tripping over his own feet in the grass."Foul!" Spadino yells, laughing as he hits the ground. "She used an illegal elbow!""Play on!" Aureliano shouts from the goalpost—two cashmere sweaters thrown onto the lawn. "No blood, no foul."I wrap my arms around my waist, leaning against the stone balustrade. My silk robe
The Vitale Brothers Ruined Me, Then Made Me Their Queen Chapter 235: The Mother
The Hall of Ancestors is a tunnel of eyes.For decades, the Vitale men have stared down from these walls—oil-painted judges trapped in gilded frames. They are stern men with beards and secrets, men who built a fortune on violence and silence.When I first walked down this corridor, seven years ago, there was a gap. A square of faded wallpaper where a frame had been ripped away. A scar in the family history where Maria Vitale used to be.Tonight, the scar is healed.I stand in front of the new addition.It is a painting commissioned from a photograph found in the bottom of my father’s wooden box. The artist was expensive, discreet, and talented. He captured the texture of her skin, the darkness of her hair, the melancholy curve of her mouth.Maria Vitale. My mother. Aureliano’s mother.The woman who ran.I look at her. I look at the woman who died screaming so I could take a breath.She looks like me. The same cheekbones. The same eyes.But there is a difference.Her eyes are filled wi
The Vitale Brothers Ruined Me, Then Made Me Their Queen Chapter 234: The Full Circle
The garden at midnight is a place of shadows and secrets.Seven years ago, in the second chapter of my life, this garden was a hunting ground. The shadows were monsters waiting to swallow me. The rustle of leaves was the sound of predators closing in.I remember running down this gravel path, my breath tearing at my lungs, my heart hammering against my ribs like a trapped bird. I remember Spadino’s laughter echoing off the stone walls, a chaotic, terrifying sound that promised a game I didn't know how to play. I remember hiding behind the statue of the weeping angel, praying to a God I didn't believe in that they wouldn't find me.Tonight, the garden is quiet.I walk down the same path. My heels click softly on the stones. I am wearing a silk robe that floats around me like smoke, catching the moonlight.I stop at the statue of the angel.She is still weeping. Her stone face is streaked with moss tears. But she doesn't look ominous anymore. She looks peaceful.I reach out. I touch her
The Vitale Brothers Ruined Me, Then Made Me Their Queen Chapter 233: The Last Threat
Power usually tastes like metal. It tastes like the iron in blood, the copper of a penny, the cold steel of a gun barrel.But today, power tastes like espresso and cannoli cream.I am sitting in the back of the armored Maybach. Aureliano is next to me, reading the Financial Times on a tablet. We are driving through the Vucciria market district.The streets are narrow, crowded, and loud. It is the beating heart of Palermo, a place that smells of fish, spices, and unwashed bodies.The car slows.Ahead, there is a commotion.A group of teenagers—maybe sixteen, wearing knock-off designer jeans and attitude—are gathered around the wall of the new Vitale Community Center. They are holding spray paint cans.They are about to tag the white limestone."Stop the car," Aureliano commands.The driver brakes.Aureliano reaches for the door handle. His jaw is tight. He is ready to get out. He is ready to be the King who disciplines the unruly subjects."Wait," I say.I put my hand on his arm."Look
The Vitale Brothers Ruined Me, Then Made Me Their Queen Chapter 232: The Legacy
The library is dim now, lit only by the dying embers of the fire and the low, brass reading lamp on the desk.My wolves have left. Spadino took the boys upstairs to "check the perimeter" (which means raiding the kitchen for midnight snacks). Aureliano and Ciro went to the office to review the security logs for the night shift.I am alone with Maria.She sits in the velvet armchair opposite me. She is thirteen, but in the half-light, she looks older. Her legs are crossed at the ankles, her posture relaxed but alert. She holds the glass of water like it is a scotch, swirling the liquid absentmindedly.She is waiting.She told us she wanted the chair. She told us she wanted the weight. But wanting and understanding are different countries, separated by an ocean of blood."Come here," I say.I don't beckon her. I don't use my mother voice. I use the voice of the Donna.Maria stands up. She sets the glass down on a coaster. She walks to the desk where I am sitting.She stops in front of me
The Vitale Brothers Ruined Me, Then Made Me Their Queen Chapter 231: The Choice
The library is the only room in the mansion that still remembers the old world.It smells of dust, leather binding, and the ghosts of men who thought they could control the future by writing it down in ledgers. It is a room of heavy silence, insulated by walls of books that no one reads.Tonight, however, the silence feels different. It feels like a pause between breaths.Dinner is over. The twins are asleep, worn out by the food fight. Maria is supposedly in her room, finishing her homework, though I suspect she is actually reading one of Spadino’s contraband spy novels.We are alone.I sit in the velvet armchair by the unlit fireplace. I have a glass of brandy in my hand, warming the crystal with my palm. I am watching the smoke from Aureliano’s cigar drift toward the high ceiling."They are growing fast," I say.It is a banal observation, but in our world, growth is a victory. Every year they survive is a year we cheated the reaper."Too fast," Ciro rumbles from the shadows.He is
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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