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There's No Afterlife for Love

There's No Afterlife for Love

História curta · Mafia
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Sinopse

Tragic Love

Winning Back the Wife

Mistress

I've been married to Salvatore Falcone for seven years. He's a mafia Don who drills raw terror into everyone's minds. While I'm the Donna whom he has announced to the world, in truth, I'm just a mistress who serves as his human shield that can warm his bed on the side. Salvatore has betrayed me countless times over the past seven years. The first betrayal occurred when he took my ring off on our first wedding anniversary and gave it to one of the escorts in the clubhouse on a whim. The second betrayal occurred when I collapsed in the kitchen out of exhaustion. Instead of saving me, Salvatore blamed me for not preparing the hangover tonic for him in time, so he had someone dump iced water onto me to wake me up. The third betrayal occurred when I suffered from massive bleeding when I was five months pregnant. When I begged Salvatore to go to the hospital with me, he told me that he was keeping Valentina Caruso, his childhood sweetheart, company while her cat was getting fixed. For 2500 days, I swallowed all of my grievances, agony, and tears. Last night, at the banquet of our seventh wedding anniversary, Salvatore had taken Valentina's hand and sat her down on the Donna's throne that was meant to be mine. At that moment, everyone looked forward to seeing me humiliate myself. This was the 101st time he betrayed me. After the banquet was over, Salvatore didn't even bother looking me in the eye. He just said icily, "Don't forget that you're only a mistress to me despite our marriage." At the crack of dawn, Salvatore wakes up with a hangover. He tosses his soiled shirt at me out of habit. "Wash this shirt immediately. I'm going to wear it tonight." As I gaze at him, I caress my belly, which is slightly swollen. "Sorry, Mr. Falcone. This is no longer my duty." Salvatore most likely has forgotten that we've signed a contract when we first got married. The clause states that we will get divorced seven years later. Today is the third day before our contract comes to an end. I toss the marriage certificate and the pregnancy report into the shredder on the spot. In three days, my unborn baby and I will disappear from Salvatore's world permanently. This time, I will never look back.

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Chapter 1
Salvatore Falcone froze, then anger lit his eyes.He strode forward and grabbed my chin, forcing me to meet his gaze. "What the hell is wrong with you, Alessia Santoro?"I ignored the sharp pain in my jaw. Instead, I lifted his shirt and tossed it onto the floor.Salvatore's eyes darkened instantly. "Looks like you want another trip to the basement."The basement was dark and damp. It was filled with snakes and spiders that slithered across me whenever I woke up.Any hint of disobedience meant being locked down there. Sometimes it was for three days. Sometimes it lasted for a month.I used to be terrified. But now, I simply looked at him. There was no emotion in my eyes.My silence seemed to enrage him further. Just as he raised his hand to hit me like he always did, a sugary voice drifted down from the staircase. "Salvatore, what got you all worked up this early in the morning?"Valentina Caruso slowly descended the stairs wearing my nightgown.That nightgown was the first an
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Chapter 2
On the way to the auction, Valentina sat beside me in the car."Alessia, Salvatore said you're like a corpse in bed. He only married you for your pretty face. But after seven years, even that gets boring," she said, voice dripping with mockery. "He needs a woman like me. Someone who actually knows how to keep a man interested."I closed my eyes. I was too tired to entertain her chatter. My thoughts were focused on the escape plan three days from now.Right after breakfast, my high school senior, Luca Bellini, messaged me.Everything was in place. As long as I could board the ferry, Nicola and I would finally be free.When the car reached a highway on the outskirts of the city, another vehicle suddenly rammed straight into us. The car instantly lost control and slammed into the roadside guardrail.Then, a storm of gunfire erupted.I instinctively covered my lower abdomen with my hand as the force of the crash threw my body forward.In the chaos, Valentina suddenly shoved me hard
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Chapter 3
While I was recovering alone after the surgery, my phone buzzed.It was a message from Valentina. She had sent me a photo.In the picture, Salvatore was personally feeding her a spoonful of stew. "Salvatore said he's really worried about you. But I can't have him leave me so you'll have to take care of your wound yourself."I felt nothing despite staring at their intimacy.After deleting the message, I called Luca."Luca, it's me.""Alessia, everything's set," he replied in a calm voice. "I'll pick Nicola up at 9:00 am the day after tomorrow. We'll meet up and then board the ferry.""Okay."His confirmation lifted the last weight in my chest.Over the past seven years, I had taken knives and bullets for Salvatore. I had even nearly died in an explosion while saving him.I didn't regret it. If I had to do it again, I would.With the seven-year contract about to expire, I could finally breathe the air of freedom.Just after I hung up, another call came in. It was Salvatore.
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Chapter 4
Late that night, I was still wearing blood-soaked clothes. The wound on my shoulder had grown cold, and waves of pain pulsed through it.Soon, the injury became infected, and a fever that wouldn't break set in.As my mind blurred, memories of the past surfaced.Shortly after Salvatore and I got married, he had given me a period of what looked like devotion while I was carrying his child.Dishes had to be made with the finest ingredients. Fruit had to be flown in the same day.Whenever I walked around the house, the housekeepers were always ready to roll out carpets beneath my feet.He would gently stroke my belly like it was the most precious thing in the world.But I knew better. All he ever saw was the child in my stomach. It was his bargaining chip that could help secure his position.Before Nicola's accident, I had allowed myself to sink into that false warmth for a while. I had even tricked myself into believing we were like an ordinary married couple.How foolish.No ma
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Chapter 5
Valentina stood inside the Falcone residence wearing my custom evening gown.Salvatore sat at the head of the table, tapping his fingers against the polished surface.For some reason, the look I had given him before I left kept replaying in his mind. He couldn't shake it."Salvatore, it's time to cut the cake," Valentina said, looping her arm through his. "Why hasn't Alessia brought the cake yet? Is she trying to embarrass me on purpose?"Salvatore frowned. "I'll go check."He shrugged off Valentina's hand and headed upstairs with a dark expression.When he pushed open the bedroom door, the timid figure he expected to see wasn't there.The room felt strangely empty.His gaze fell onto the two documents on the bedside table. One was the prenuptial contract from seven years ago. The other was the divorce agreement he had just signed."Do you really think you can play me, Alessia?"Salvatore let out a cold laugh as he tore the document to pieces. Then, he pulled out his phone an
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Chapter 6
Salvatore's hands began to tremble uncontrollably.Suddenly, yesterday's events flashed through his mind.Valentina had pushed me out of the car. Covered in blood, I lay at his feet.I had been carrying his child at that time.Salvatore shot to his feet. He stood so abruptly that his vision went black for a moment. "Get the car ready! We're going to that clinic Alessia visited yesterday! Now!"The Maybach sped through the night, running eight red lights along the way.The doctor was just about to close up for the night when Salvatore burst into the small clinic."Where's the woman who came in yesterday with a gunshot wound?"Salvatore grabbed the doctor by the collar, his eyes bloodshot.The old woman flinched, then recognized him. "Oh. So you're the husband of that woman who almost died. She's gone. She left a long time ago.""How badly was she hurt? What about the baby? Is the baby still alive?" Salvatore pressed urgently.The doctor looked at him with undisguised contempt
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Chapter 7
Salvatore ignored Valentina's screaming.He rushed upstairs and shoved open my room's door. The room still carried the faint scent of jasmine perfume I always wore.Like a madman, he began searching every corner of the room in hopes of finding some trace I had left behind. Even a single note would do.But aside from the signed divorce agreement, there was nothing.Then, his eyes landed on my desk. A small notebook lay there.Salvatore picked it up with trembling hands and opened the first page."First year of marriage. I didn't expect Salvatore to remember my birthday. He gave me a necklace. His secretary probably picked it out, but I was still happy," the first entry wrote.He flipped through the pages. "Third year of marriage. He brought a strange woman home. That same day, he locked me in the basement for three days. My heart hurts so much."Fifth year of marriage. The baby was gone. He never came to the hospital. I listened to the rain outside the window. It felt like somet
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Chapter 8
When Salvatore arrived in Meropolis, it was pouring.Dozens of black cars surrounded the sanatorium.Soaked to the bone, Salvatore ignored his bodyguards' attempts to stop him and stormed straight into the lobby. "Alessia! Show yourself!"His voice carried the edge of someone on the verge of breaking.People in the lobby screamed and scattered in panic."Mr. Falcone, this is a sanatorium," Luca said. "Please keep your voice down."He stood at the staircase with several security guards blocking the way."Luca." Salvatore fixed his gaze on the man who had once been his high school classmate. "Hand her over.""She doesn't want to see you," Luca replied, not moving an inch. "Let her go. Haven't you tormented her enough these past seven years?""That's between husband and wife," Salvatore snapped. "It's none of your business."He suddenly pulled a gun from his waist and pointed it directly at Luca's forehead. "Move, or I'll kill you."Luca's expression didn't change. Instead, h
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Chapter 9
Salvatore didn't leave Meropolis. Instead, he bought a villa across the sanatorium and spent his days watching me with a pair of binoculars.Sometimes he would watch me strolling in the garden. Other times, he would see me basking in the sun on the balcony.Just seeing me from a distance was enough for him. Even if that was all he could do.A month later, news came from back home. Valentina had gone mad in the basement. She screamed Salvatore's name daily and clawed at her face until it was raw. On one rainy night, she swallowed an entire bottle of sleeping pills.When Salvatore heard the news, he was carving a wooden horse for his unborn child.His hand paused. A splinter sliced his finger."Cremate her," he muttered. "Don't let her soil the Falcone family's land."He felt nothing for Valentine anymore. If it hadn't been for her, things between us would never have ended this way. Still, he knew the true culprit was himself.During that entire month, I never once left the san
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Chapter 10
Five years after my death, I drifted through the air, watching as the former mafia Don approached my grave with a bouquet of jasmine in his hands.Only five years had passed, yet he looked more than a decade older.His hair had turned gray, and his back carried a deep weariness. It was as though a single gust of wind could knock him over.He slowly crouched down.Those hands that once held a gun were now trembling as they brushed the dust off the photo on the headstone."Alessia. I'm here to see you."He set the bouquet down and gently traced the photo engraved on the stone with his fingers. I was smiling faintly in the photo, yet he couldn't stop the tears from streaming down his face."Brando started kindergarten today," Salvatore said, his voice catching.His fingers started to tremble even more than before. "But when he came home, his eyes were red. A bunch of kids surrounded him and laughed at him. They called him a motherless child. A bastard."But he didn't cry. He clen
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