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Chapter 179: The Feeding
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The Vitale Brothers Ruined Me, Then Made Me Their Queen Chapter 191: The Private Vow (Spadino)
The garden at night is a jungle of shadows and scent.I leave the heavy, iron-scented air of the gym and step out into the cool breeze coming off the Mediterranean. The smell of jasmine is overwhelming here, cloying and sweet, mixing with the salt spray and the damp earth.This is Spadino’s domain.Inside the house, there are rules. There are walls. There are hierarchies.Out here, there is only the chase.I walk down the gravel path, my heels sinking slightly into the stones. I pull the silk robe tighter around myself, though the night isn't cold. It’s the anticipation that makes me shiver.I don't see him.I scan the rose bushes. I check the stone bench where we sat with Matteo. I look toward the cliffs.Nothing.Then, a rustle in the branches above me.I look up.Spadino drops.He lands in front of me with the grace of a cat and the grin of a devil. He is wearing a tuxedo, but the jacket is gone, the tie is gone, and the shirt is unbuttoned halfway down his chest. He is barefoot in
The Vitale Brothers Ruined Me, Then Made Me Their Queen Chapter 190: The Private Vow (Ciro)
The gym is located in the bowels of the mansion, carved out of the rock beneath the foundation. It smells of iron, rubber, and the sharp, salty tang of male sweat.It is a temple of pain. A place where weakness is sweated out and callouses are forged.I walk down the spiral metal staircase. The heels of my shoes—I kept the silk slip dress on but added heels—ring against the grating.The room is dimly lit. The only illumination comes from the low track lighting along the floor, casting long, monstrous shadows against the concrete walls.Ciro is waiting.He stands in the center of the training mats. He is shirtless, wearing only loose grey sweatpants that hang low on his hips. His body is a landscape of violence—massive shoulders, a back mapped with scars, arms thick with muscle that shifts like tectonic plates when he moves.He isn't hitting the bag. He isn't lifting weights. He is standing perfectly still, his hands wrapped in black tape, watching the stairs.Watching me.His eyes are
The Vitale Brothers Ruined Me, Then Made Me Their Queen Chapter 189: The Private Vow (Aureliano)
The office of the Don is a mausoleum of secrets.It smells of history—aged paper, expensive tobacco, and the metallic tang of decisions that end lives. It is a room built for silence, for the scratching of pens on death warrants, for the clinking of ice in crystal glasses as empires are divided.I stand at the door.My hand rests on the brass handle. The metal is cool, indifferent.Years ago, in the first week of my captivity—Chapter Four of my life, if I were writing it down—I walked into this room as a currency. I was a debt payment. I was a thing to be assessed, weighed, and valued against a ledger of ten million euros.I remember the terror. I remember the way the mahogany desk looked like an altar where I would be sacrificed. I remember Aureliano sitting behind it, looking at me not as a woman, but as an asset.Today, the door opens easily.I step inside.The room is dim, lit only by the green banker’s lamp on the desk and the fire crackling in the grate. The shadows are long, st
The Vitale Brothers Ruined Me, Then Made Me Their Queen Chapter 188: The Loophole
The law is a spiderweb. It catches the small flies, the weak, and the poor. But the hornets? The hornets tear right through it.We are hornets.But even hornets occasionally get stuck in the sticky strands of bureaucracy.It is late. The living room is bathed in the low, amber glow of the floor lamps. The fire in the grate has burned down to embers, casting deep, flickering shadows against the stone walls.The mood is heavy. Not with the threat of violence, but with the weight of a decision that feels like a betrayal, even if it is a necessity."It has to be Aureliano," I say.I am sitting on the rug in front of the fire, a glass of wine in my hand. I am not looking at them. I am looking at the flames."Legally," I continue, "he is the head of the Vitale estate. If I marry him, the transfer of my trust assets into the family holding company is tax-exempt. Custody of Maria becomes joint and absolute. The school accepts the application."I take a sip of wine. It tastes sour."It makes s
The Vitale Brothers Ruined Me, Then Made Me Their Queen Chapter 187: The Paper Ceiling
I have killed men. I have dismantled criminal empires. I have negotiated treaties with warlords and bought politicians like they were cheap suits.But apparently, I cannot get my daughter into the Istituto Nobile without a marriage certificate.I sit behind the obsidian desk in my office at the Vitale Tower. The view of the city is spectacular—a sprawling grid of power that I control. But my focus is entirely on the single sheet of cream-colored paper in front of me.Across the desk sits Signor Moretti. He is not related to the captain Ciro retired. He is a lawyer. A specialist in family law and estate planning. He is currently sweating through his expensive Italian suit."Explain it to me again," I say. My voice is calm, but it has the brittle edge of a blade about to snap."It is a matter of... propriety, Donna," Moretti stammers. "And liability. The Istituto is a Catholic foundation. Their bylaws are archaic. They require the primary guardian to be... listed.""I am listed," I say,
The Vitale Brothers Ruined Me, Then Made Me Their Queen Chapter 186: The Question
The dinner table is the only place where the Vitale family pretends to be normal.We are seated in the informal dining room, a space with warm terracotta tiles and windows that open onto the herb garden. The long mahogany table of the formal dining hall feels too much like a boardroom for a Tuesday night pasta dinner.The air smells of garlic, basil, and the rich, slow-cooked ragù that Ciro spent three hours making.It is a scene of domestic perfection.Aureliano sits at the head of the table, pouring a heavy red wine. He is out of his suit, wearing a crisp white shirt with the sleeves rolled up. He looks relaxed, but his hand rests on my thigh under the table, his thumb stroking the inside of my leg in a slow, possessive rhythm that keeps me anchored to him.Ciro is to my left, watching Maria eat with the intensity of a bodyguard protecting a VIP. He wipes a smudge of sauce from her chin with a napkin, his touch incredibly gentle for a man who breaks bones for a living.Spadino is ac
The Vitale Brothers Ruined Me, Then Made Me Their Queen Chapter 10: The Thirty-Day Queen
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
ปรับปรุงล่าสุด : 2026-03-18The 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
ปรับปรุงล่าสุด : 2026-04-05The Vitale Brothers Ruined Me, Then Made Me Their Queen Chapter 61: The Waiting Room
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
ปรับปรุงล่าสุด : 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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