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Chapter 1

My ring finger hit the floor before the pain reached me. All I heard was a clean, brittle crack. The severed finger, still wearing the Ossuary Signet, rolled across the expensive, handwoven carpet.Blood sprayed out, splashing over the crystal-studded heels of Sofia Constanzo."How horrible. There is so much blood," Sofia screamed and collapsed into Luca Rossi's arms. The man gripping the bloodstained cigar cutter was someone I had trusted for 20 years and loved for ten. He was the future Don of the Rossi famiglia, Luca Rossi.When he looked at me, his gaze was icy. "Alessia, stop playing dead over there."Sofia can't stand the sight of blood. You dirtied the carpet. Get lost and deal with it."I clutched the stump where my finger had been cut off. Blood flowed uncontrollably through my fingers, dripping onto the floor and pooling into a glaring red stain.Only then did the pain finally explode along my nerves. It was a piercing, soul-splitting agony.I didn't cry, nor did I
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Chapter 2

"Drag her out. Lock this lunatic in the storage room. No doctor unless I say so. If she's so stubborn, let the pain finish her," said Luca.As two bodyguards hauled me out like a dead dog, my blood streaked the floor behind us.Before I passed out from the pain, I caught sight of a thin man in the corner of the ballroom.In a shabby, ill-fitting suit, his bangs hid most of his face. He held a glass so tightly his knuckles stood out like bone.That was Silas Rossi—the bastard of the Rossi famiglia, Luca's older half-brother, a child nobody in the famiglia had ever claimed. Rumor had it he was mute.They threw me into a damp, dark basement. The pain in my left hand woke me. The wound on my hand hadn't been treated, and blood still poured freely.Luca really wanted me dead.Just when I thought I would die here quietly, the door creaked open. A faint beam from a flashlight cut through the darkness.Through the haze, I saw Silas slip in like a shadow, crouching beside me with a medi
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Chapter 3

Over the next few days, I was locked away in the storage room.Luca seemed to savor the thrill of holding my life in his hands. Each day, someone would drop off scraps of food, barely enough to keep me alive.My wounds festered, and the fever wouldn't break.Silas was going crazy.He sneaked out to get anti-inflammatory medicine and a fever reducer, then clumsily gave me the injection and fed me the medicine.Through my fevered haze, I noticed fresh bruises marring his skin.I knew Luca had found him out and beaten him, but he never said a word.When I woke, he was there with that goofy, warm smile, peeling a soft-boiled egg in his hands like it was the most precious thing in the world and offering it to me.I brushed my fingers against the bruises at the corner of his mouth, my chest tightening with pain. "Silas, was all this really worth it for me?"He pressed his hand against my mouth to silence me. Tears brimmed in his eyes as he whispered, "You're my light."I spent 20 y
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Chapter 4

Valeria said, "She's the heiress of the Marino famiglia, the granddaughter of the late global tycoon Sergio Marino! That ring doesn't belong to the Rossi famiglia. It belongs to the Marino famiglia, and it's the key to controlling their trillion-dollar fortune!"Everyone froze. Luca went rigid where he stood.Sofia's face drained of color, and she instinctively clutched the ring in her hand."The Marino famiglia?" someone gasped. "You mean the famiglia that basically owns half the shipping and power grids out there?""Mamma mia! Alessia is the last of the Marino famiglia?"Valeria's eyes welled up with tears. She pointed a trembling finger at Luca and said, "The Marino famiglia nearly collapsed 20 years ago. To protect his only granddaughter, Sergio entrusted Alessia to the Rossi famiglia. Your grandfather knelt at Sergio's bedside for three days straight, vowing to raise her as his own and begging for this marriage. "That was the price for their trust. Since then, the Rossi fam
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Chapter 5

Valeria's eyes rolled back, and she nearly collapsed. "Your hand…"I held up my severed finger and glared at Luca. "Luca, didn't you know? I never took the ring off. Once it comes off, it loses its purpose."As his face drained of color, I gave him a merciless smile. "Don't you remember? You were the one who used a cigar cutter to sever my finger. And with it, you cut off the Rossi famiglia's only way out. The moment you called my finger trash and I fed it to the fire, the end began. Congratulations, Luca. You cremated your famiglia and its fortune with your own hands.""No…" Luca collapsed to the floor, shaking his head in denial. "It can't end like this, not over one finger."Suddenly, he snapped. He lunged at Sofia like a wild animal, pulling her hair and reaching for the ring. "Hand it over! Give me the Ossuary Signet!""Stop! Luca, you're hurting me!" Sofia screamed, struggling against him.Luca's bloodshot eyes bulged as he ripped the ring from her hand. Right then, a group
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Chapter 6

Silas stepped forward, and the chill in his eyes shut Sofia up instantly.Through her tears, Sofia removed her dress in front of the lingering media and guests, leaving her in disheveled underwear as she scrambled away in embarrassment.That night, everything in Santini shifted.The Rossi famiglia collapsed into bankruptcy. Luca ended up in prison, while Sofia ran half-naked through the streets.I stood atop the ruins of the Rossi famiglia, reclaiming the dignity that had always belonged to the Marino famiglia.Rossi Manor was sealed off, and everyone was driven out. At the manor gates, a cold wind swept through.I wore only the thin maid's uniform, but I didn't feel the cold. Silas had draped his suit jacket over my shoulders.He himself wore only a light dress shirt, standing in the wind, shielding me from it all."Ms. Marino!"A convoy of black Rolls-Royce Phantoms came to a stop. Men in tailored suits stepped out and greeted me as one.I felt nothing as I took in the scen
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Chapter 7

Prison hadn't changed Luca. If anything, he had become more twisted. I barely recognized the man before me through the glass. Luca was emaciated, his face scarred. The second he saw me, he pressed himself against the glass like a man possessed. "Alessia, you've finally come to see me! I knew you still loved me! You're here to save me, right?"Clad in a white couture suit, I linked arms with Silas and met his gaze calmly. "Luca, don't get the wrong idea. I came to share some good news."I raised my hand. A new ring sparkled on my finger—not the Ossuary Signet, but a brilliant pink diamond, crafted by Silas himself."I'm marrying Silas tomorrow," I said.Luca's face froze, then twisted into something monstrous. "No! You can't marry him! He's nothing but a mute bastard! I'm the Rossi famiglia's firstborn! You're my fiancee! You can only marry me!"He slammed his fists against the glass and shouted, "Alessia! You whore! How could you betray me?"Silas, who had remained silent until
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