The Don’s Secret Child のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 1 - チャプター 10

He whispered her name nine hundred and ninety-nine times in his sleep.Never mine.Those numbers carved themselves into me, sharp as glass. They were proof of everything I had refused to admit—that no matter how much I gave, I would never be enough. Alessia was not a shadow I could erase. She was his beginning and his end.But I didn’t reach that truth in one night. It came slowly, quietly, building with every evening I spent in silence inside the Bonanno estate.Every night was the same. I set his favorite dishes on the table—seasoned exactly how he liked them, steaming at the perfect moment. I drew his bath with rose petals and lit the candles he once said he liked. I polished his slippers until they gleamed by the door.And then, at nine o’clock sharp, the front door opened. Vincent Bonanno—heir to one of the most powerful mafia dynasties in Europe—stepped inside. His presence filled the hall, but his eyes never found me.I slipped his jacket from his shoulders, placed his shoes at

After returning from the vineyard, I went straight upstairs into the walk-in closet and began to pack my suitcase.That was when I realized how little I actually owned.A handful of dresses Vincent’s mother had pressed into my hands when I first married into the Bonanno family. Not once in five years had my husband chosen something for me—no dress, no scarf, not even the smallest trinket.When I finished packing, I looked at the gifts I had once chosen so carefully for him—watches, cufflinks, leather-bound journals. All unopened, untouched, stacked in the corner like relics of a one-sided devotion. I boxed them up, not with tears, but with a steady hand, and sent them away with the scrap dealer.Every effort, every quiet smile, every moment I had tried to bridge the distance between us—it had all dissolved into dust.Just as I turned to go back inside the villa, a sharp car horn pierced the quiet.A sleek black Maybach rolled to a stop. The door swung open, and out stepped Bianca, Vinc

The molten cheese splashed across my arms before I could move.A searing pain tore through me, blistering my skin in seconds, sharp as a thousand needles piercing all at once. My throat locked—I couldn’t even scream.“Valentina!”For the first time, Vincent’s voice held panic. He shoved Alessia aside and rushed toward me, reaching for my arms.“You’re burned—damn it, we need to get you to the hospital!”I lifted my eyes to him through the blur of agony. My lips parted, but not a single word came out.Then I heard a shrill cry.“Oh my God, Alessia, you’re hurt too!”Vincent froze, his attention snapping away from me. A few drops of cheese had landed on Alessia’s wrist, barely reddening her porcelain skin. But Vincent looked like the world had shattered.Alessia shook her head bravely, eyes shimmering with unshed tears.“It’s nothing. Please, see to Valentina first—she looks worse.”Her voice trembled with selfless concern, and yet her fragility only tightened Vincent’s grip on her.“You

A week later, the divorce papers arrived.It was official—I was no longer his wife. On paper, at least.No one else knew yet. Not Vincent. Not his siblings. Not the vultures circling around us in society. Only Elena knew. To everyone else, I was still Mrs. Bonanno. But to me, it was already over. I was counting the days, folding my old life into a suitcase no one had noticed I’d begun to pack.Just as I zipped the last corner shut, a knock came at the door. Vincent’s assistant stood there, holding out a couture gown. The message was obvious: I was expected at the family gala. One last performance.I looked at the dress and almost laughed.Legally, I was free. Emotionally, I was already gone. And yet, tonight, I would still wear his name like a mask—because Elena, his mother, had always treated me with kindness, and I still had a few loose ends to tie up before disappearing for good.The ballroom glowed with golden chandeliers and brittle laughter. Champagne sparkled in crystal flutes,

After I left, Vincent unraveled.The heir who once ruled Naples with cold precision now filled every wall with my face. Flyers, bulletins, whispered orders. Naples. Milan. Even Paris saw my photograph pasted in quiet alleys.“Find her,” he commanded his men. “She’s mine. She carries my blood.”But the city gave him nothing. The more he searched, the more silence answered him.He stopped eating. He stopped sleeping. The mansion that once brimmed with noise and authority sank into chaos because its master had become a storm with no direction.And when desperation soured into obsession, he reached for the bottle.Servants whispered of glass clattering in the night, of their Don slumped over a desk with the Florence maternity file under his hand, as if guarding proof he had already destroyed everything.It wasn’t just me he had lost. It was the child he never even held.That thought gutted him more than any enemy’s bullet could. For a man who had controlled empires, territories, blood oath