All Chapters of After Escaping The Family, I Chose to Scatter My Ashes into the Sea: Chapter 11 - Chapter 13

News of Bianca's treachery and fall from grace spread like wildfire through the mafia underworld.At the same time, nearly every Family knew she had lost her standing in the Rocci family.Her adoptive father, the Consigliere Marco; her mother, Jane; and her fiancé, the Capo Draven, no longer cared if she lived or died.During her reign in the socialite circle, Eleanor hadn't been the only one she'd oppressed.Now, the very heiresses she had once trampled over all ganged up on her.Even her so-called best friends, desperate to save their own skins, joined the pack hunting her down.In less than a week, Bianca was completely broken.She was utterly isolated in the mafia's social scene.No one wanted anything to do with a traitor who had lost her Family's protection.After days of desperate struggle, she suddenly went still.She realized her only path to survival was to win back the Family's trust.Three days later, the cellar door was opened.Bianca was curled in a corner, her hair a mes

One year later.The once-glorious Rocci family mansion now stood desolate, the vast estate housing only Marco and Jane, who were left with nothing but each other.Having lost their standing in the Family, their new life was worlds apart from the one they once knew.Gone were the scores of servants, the endless social gatherings, and the power to command the city's underworld.Every day, Marco would sit in Eleanor's old room, the space that had been a shrine to Bianca but which they had now painstakingly restored for their daughter.Though little of Eleanor's belongings remained, they desperately tried to piece together what was left of their daughter's life.Jane polished the dust-covered music box until it shone. In the dead of night, she would open it, listening to its simple, sorrowful melody, imagining a young Eleanor practicing the piano in that very room."If only we had paid more attention to her," Jane would often tell herself, her vision blurred by tears.Draven's fate was eve