All Chapters of The Heir They Denied: Chapter 11 - Chapter 12

[Matteo's POV]At the Gallo Estate."Don Gallo, are you certain you wish to attend the gala tonight?" Antonio asked cautiously.Matteo sat in the chair that had once been his father's, idly turning a silver dagger in his hand. In the past five years, he had crushed all his enemies. Stella and her lover had been executed by his own hand. Every person who had betrayed him had paid in blood.He was now the most powerful Don in New York, but also its most solitary tyrant. No woman ever lasted more than three months by his side."I'm going," he said, his voice flat. "The Russos will be there. I need to see them for myself."He knew, deep down, that wasn't the real reason. He just wanted to see if the woman he searched for was truly gone from that man's side. He couldn't give up on any possibility.Five years. He had never stopped looking for a trace of Ava.Even though everyone said she was dead, even though her death certificate sat in a drawer of his desk, he kept searching, a man dri