From Maid to Madre의 모든 챕터: 챕터 11 - 챕터 20

"The Principessa is still trying on makeup. If you leave now...""Get out of my way!" Matteo shoved aside the employee blocking his path and strode out quickly.Lucia rushed over at the sound. She stared in shock at his resolute retreating figure, frozen in place. An inexplicable sense of panic gnawed at him. As time passed, it gradually destroyed his mental state. He finally could not keep up the act!The so-called high-profile provocation was just his desperate one-man show.His car raced through the city streets, running countless red lights and triggering a chorus of screeching brakes and curses.Veins bulged on the back of Matteo's hand as he gripped the steering wheel. Reports from his Soldati came through his earpiece."Still nothing? What good are you people to the famiglia!" He began to roar, his eyes bloodshot. "Send out everyone we can mobilize! I don't care if it's the black market, the docks, or rat holes in the slums. Search everywhere!"I need to see her alive or.

Matteo could not accept the news of Gianna's death. He left the hospital and drove straight to the city's largest crematorium.The place sat on the edge of the city, shrouded year-round in gray fog. Towering chimneys belched black smoke, and the stench hit him the moment he got close.Matteo grabbed the staff by their collars and forced them to search through that night's cremation records."There's no name! She was a Jane Doe! Find me every single record of unidentified female bodies from that day!"Like a mindless thug, he ransacked the records room, scattering files everywhere. The staff trembled in fear of the black-suited Soldati behind him and could only cooperate shakily.Every record of an unidentified female body made Matteo's heart leap with dread.Some had been hit by cars beyond recognition. Some had died on the street from drug overdoses. That was until he saw one particular record:[Number 748: Unidentified female, approximately 25 years old. Cause of death: Advanc

After finding a new goal, Matteo stopped drinking heavily."Underboss, we found it."Marco compiled the information he had received but hesitated to read aloud those shocking truths."Speak!""Miss Gianna was nearly run over by a car. The hit-and-run driver turned himself in, but his family's account received a large sum of money the day before the incident. The sender was a shell company, but tracing the money flow... the source was Miss Lucia's private account."That car accident left Gianna, who had just arrived in the city, with a fractured leg. She was bedridden for three months.At the time, he had been partying on a yacht with Lucia to please her, completely unaware that she was the one who had hired someone to kill Gianna!"There's also the first residence that burned down," Marco continued his report. "That was arson too. In Miss Lucia's call records that night, there's a number belonging to a local repeat offender."One incident after another. Every accident Gianna ex

Back at Orleen Estate, the Soldati all pointed their guns at the man standing in the center.Matteo's spine was straight, but at his feet, Lucia's makeup was ruined by tears. She no longer had the arrogance of a mafia Principessa."Matteo, what's the meaning of this?"Domenico sat in the seat of honor, his authority palpable even without anger. "You led men to storm Lucy's bachelorette party and held a gun to her head, wanting to kill her. Do you think I have no power left?"Isabella also frowned. "Can't you talk things through? You're about to be married. What will people think of this spectacle?""Marriage?" Matteo's lips twisted into a bitter smile. "I should've married her, it's true. But she's already dead. Killed by you and me, working together.""What nonsense are you spouting?"He did not argue. He simply knelt slowly. This was not to beg for mercy but to atone."Don Ricci, Madre, do you still recognize this?" He took out the pendant and held it above his head with both

It was two years later.Time was the cruelest sculptor. It could smooth over scars or carve regrets even deeper.For Gianna, these two years had been a complete rebirth.With Caio's full support, she entered the free port's most prestigious medical school.The woman who once only knew how to endure and retreat, who lived dependent on Matteo, had become a rising star in the medical world.She possessed remarkable talent and determination, and combined with the unlimited resources Caio provided, she became an authority in internal medicine in just two years.For Matteo, these two years were a prolonged torture. He refused to believe Gianna was dead.That death certificate was locked in his safe, becoming a taboo he could not touch. He searched frantically, from the city to the surrounding areas, then abroad.In every city he visited, he would donate a library or hospital named after Gianna, as if by doing so he could accumulate merit and earn God's mercy just once. However, he fo