Semua Bab Forget the Wedding—I Rule the Underworld: Bab 1 - Bab 7

A month before our wedding, my fiance, Rocco Morelli, disappeared. I searched for him for weeks, until I finally saw him in a jewelry boutique.He was there with a beautiful woman, helping her pick out a diamond ring. She was Emilia Leone, my father's illegitimate daughter, the one I kicked out of the family three years ago.Rocco slipped a 20-carat diamond ring onto her finger, the stone blindingly bright.I was just about to march up to him and confront him for his disappearing act when I heard his subordinate, Anthony Johnson, ask, "Are you really going to organize a fake wedding ceremony, then abandon Cassandra on the wedding day and broadcast indecent photos of her for all to see?""That's not all I'm going to do. Emilia and I will have a grand wedding ceremony for us on that day, too. I want to let Cassandra watch us get married," Rocco declared nonchalantly. "It's just to teach her a lesson. She has no one but her brother to blame since he bullied Emilia."Anthony chuckled.

Rocco let out a long sigh. "Stop lying. Don't I know you well enough by now? Be good and don't cause any more trouble. We'll be getting married in one week."But there wasn't going to be a groom at my wedding ceremony anyway."What about Emilia?" I asked.Looking like he'd been caught in a lie, he averted his eyes and said, "She's just a business partner of the family."As soon as he finished speaking, he turned around and walked off, looking like he was fleeing instead. I heard a click when the door closed—it'd been locked.Tensing, I dashed to the door and tried to open it."Rocco! Let me out!"His voice came from the other side, cold and unyielding."You're going to stay in there until the wedding."Even on the night before the wedding, I was still locked in the room. Rocco didn't drop by a single time throughout the entire week. He probably guessed that I knew the truth.I couldn't understand. Could someone truly hold two people dear in his heart at once?But these things

But if I was indeed the real daughter of the Leone family, why would I have ended up working as a stripper at an underground bar?When Rocco heard the news of my disappearance, he felt as if someone had ripped a piece of his heart straight out of his chest. The pain was raw and agonizing.His plan had been such a perfect one.Once he married Emilia and seized the Leone family's power and wealth, he would get rid of her and bring me back to his side, making me his real wife.But now, before he could even find me, he started losing multiple business deals. Even his smuggling routes were mysteriously cut off by the police.He had no choice but to stay put and deal with the crisis.Just as he was at his wits' end, Anthony came and told him that Emilia said she could help him find me.…A subordinate of mine filled me in on what happened at the wedding ceremony. Emilia had become the biggest laughingstock in all of Langshore, especially among the wealthy."All of the business deali

"You should enjoy whatever power you have left as the boss. Soon, you'll be nothing more than a disgraced man," I said to Rocco before leaving with Sebastian.Did Rocco love me?Perhaps he did, but he loved himself more. That was why he had no qualms about maintaining a relationship with two women at the same time.It wasn't long before the Morelli family went bankrupt.The don of the most powerful mafia family in Langshore had become a nobody who had to work odd jobs to survive and could be pushed around by anyone.He would always lie in wait at the company or places I frequented to ambush me. He'd get on his knees and beg for my forgiveness—until one day, when he vanished completely.Sebastian came to me and said, "I broke his legs. He won't bother you again. You're not gonna feel sorry for him, are you?"I rolled my eyes. "Why would I care?""Then I guess it's time to make good on that promise I made you in the past."I didn't expect Sebastian to take me to a Ferris wheel o