All Chapters of The Don I Housebroke After Divorce: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

10 Chapters

Chapter 1

I lay curled on the ground, the damp warmth beneath my skirt slowly leeching the heat from my body. With every second, inhaling Damiano Vito's scent and the metallic tang of blood churned my stomach.I still remembered the pouring rain on the night I found out I was pregnant. Elated, I pushed open the study door, only to find Damiano making love to Bianca Sorace—one was my husband, and the other the daughter of a rival mafia family.The sight of their intertwined bodies was sickening.From then on, any contact from the outside world made me feel physically nauseated. I would scrub my hands obsessively, shower frantically, and refuse to touch anything that hadn't been sterilized at high temperature.Damiano blamed it on my hormones. He humored me, participating in that charade of atonement—until tonight, when he finally grew tired of the act."Look at you—you're no different than a madwoman!" he bellowed through the living room, urging his men into a frenzy of revelry. Then, he gra

Chapter 2

The phone rang sharply in the empty hospital room, slicing through the silence. It was my father, calling all the way from the family territory. He wasted no time unloading a storm of scolding."You're being reckless, Isabella!" his authoritative voice boomed through the receiver. "Damiano is the Don! A little attitude is normal. You're weakening our hand!"In his eyes, my dignity and life were nothing more than dust in the face of family interests. I leaned against the pale hospital pillow, staring at the gray, smothered sky outside the window."Dad…" I interrupted him calmly. "The child you were counting on—the one meant to seal a century-old alliance between our families—has now turned into ashes."Silence fell on the other end of the line, with just the faint buzz of electricity, as if it were mourning this quiet tragedy.Not long after, a few of my uncles barged into the room. Their faces wore fake sympathy, but their eyes were glued to my stomach."What a shame… It was a bo

Chapter 3

Once my strength had returned enough, I yanked the IV from the back of my hand. I slipped into a black, form-fitting gown and tucked the agreement into my clutch bag.I made my way to Damiano's office building in the heart of the city—Dominion Tower. The elevator shot upward, and with a sharp chime, I arrived at the top floor.The moment the doors opened, a familiar scent hit me. It was a sickeningly sweet and cheap perfume, Bianca's favorite brand. My stomach clenched violently, nausea rolling over me like old waves.I shoved the heavy door open without hesitation. The office was dim, shadows stretching across the floor, with only the massive floor-to-ceiling windows letting in a sliver of daylight.On the leather couch was the very woman who should've been dead. She sat on Damiano's lap, smiling as she drew a circle on his chest. "Amore mio, you're so tricky…"The moment Damiano saw me, he stiffened like he had been electrocuted, shoving Bianca behind him in a panic. I instincti

Chapter 4

The violent vomiting had left me weak and barely conscious. In the end, I was rushed to the family's private clinic. As soon as my parents heard, black armored cars piled up at the entrance, nearly blocking it entirely.Fate, as always, had a cruel sense of irony. Damiano's car pulled up, too.He carefully helped Bianca out. A tiny adhesive bandage on her knee was the only damage—a scratch, but I was the one lying on a gurney, hooked to an IV.Mom's face paled. She might care about the family business, but at that moment, her maternal instinct overrode everything. "Grab her!"Her hand flicked toward the bodyguards behind her. Two of them lunged forward, yanking Bianca roughly into their grip. Then, Mom slapped her harshly across the face."Puttana! How dare you destroy the alliance between our families!"Clutching her swollen cheek, Bianca trembled violently, screaming as she shrank into Damiano's arms. "I'm scared, Damiano… Help me…"Damiano looked down at his shaken mistress,

Chapter 5

I tracked down Don Lorenzo Valenti, a man even Damiano and Dad had to look up to. He was a mountain neither the Vitos nor Cappas could ever scale.I promised him half of the Vito family's assets once my revenge was complete. With that, I moved into the safe house Lorenzo had set up for me.Rumors spread like wildfire, saying I had become Lorenzo's mistress for revenge. Damiano scoffed at the gossip. He even went public, shutting down all my family's legitimate businesses to force me back into submission.He thought I would beg for him as I had before for the sake of my family. Unfortunately for him, he had forgotten who I was—the woman who had fought alongside him through the blood-soaked battles.That same night, I tapped into the internal mafia ledgers I still had access to. I cut off Damiano's three most profitable smuggling routes, seizing his cargo and snapping his cash flow.Panic spread fast among the elders on his side. They banded together, pressuring Damiano to bring me

Chapter 6

The family war had erupted in full, but I wasn't going after Damiano's business empire anymore. Instead, I targeted his personal assets.To prove his nonchalance, Damiano made a show of it. He deliberately leaked that he would throw a lavish engagement party for Bianca next month.The city went wild with gossip, but I didn't flinch. In fact, I delivered an exquisite gift. It was a sleek voice recorder pen, detailing all of Bianca's schemes against me, including how she caused an induced abortion on me.Once the gift was delivered, I didn't wait for Damiano to call. What came instead was a call from his most loyal underboss. For the first time, the fear in his voice was raw and unmasked."Signora, Don Vito, he… He seems to have gone mad."The underboss informed me that after Damiano received the recorder, he spent the entire day locked in his office. He pulled up every bit of surveillance, tracking Bianca's movements to the tiniest detail.Then, he went to our old master bedroom,

Chapter 7

After Damiano returned home, he instructed his men to pile every single item that Bianca had ever touched in the yard and set it on fire.Everything was burned to ashes, yet it wasn't quite enough for him. He looked down at his left arm, where a tattoo resided, the same spot Bianca had touched while they were intimate.Disgust flashed across his eyes, and without hesitation or any form of anesthesia, he grabbed a bottle of acid and poured it directly onto his skin. Soon, his flesh was charred to the point of exposing his bones.He was drenched in cold sweat, veins bulging along his neck, but he didn't make a sound. It was as if he believed the physical pain could dull the torment inside him.When the family elders learned he had lost it, they tried to call an emergency meeting to impeach him. Around the conference table, two members who had pushed hardest for Bianca spoke up first.They didn't mince their words, condemning Damiano for losing his mind over a woman, but the next sec

Chapter 8

At that moment, Lorenzo appeared. He looked at the blood on the ground and smiled mockingly. "Not your worst performance, Damiano."Then, he extended his hand to me. "Don't waste your time on a lunatic like him. Come with me, Isabella."Damiano wielded the scalpel again. He positioned himself before me, staring fiercely at Lorenzo. "Unless I die, no one will take her away from me."I watched his back, and the fortress around my heart cracked just a little. In the end, I pulled out my phone and called for an ambulance. I didn't let him into my car, though."Put him in the trunk," I said coldly to the bodyguards. "I don't want him messing up my seats."Damiano was tossed into the trunk as I wished. Before slipping into unconsciousness, his right hand still clutched the ruby necklace I had thrown away.The first thing he did upon waking up wasn't to check on his hand but to dart into the bathroom and sanitize himself all over his body five times. He scrubbed until his skin turned re

Chapter 9

I stood outside the glass. Inside, Damiano was on his knees, staring at me with feverish devotion. Slowly, I raised my hand and let my fingertips hover level with his eyes.For him, this was the first response I had given him in over six months, a mercy granted from above. Like a fanatic at prayer, he pressed himself to the glass, kissing the spot where my fingers rested, over and over.The sight of it made my stomach churn."Damiano," I called out, fighting the nausea. "Do you want me to open the door? Or to stop thinking you're filthy?"He nodded frantically."Then, go clean house," I said, pointing at the phone outside the isolation window. "Who was it that said the family rules mattered more than my life?"Damiano froze. Memory snapped back into place, and the indifferent faces of his uncles flashed through his mind—men who had watched him grow up, blood relatives.His hesitation lasted only a second before he grabbed the phone and dialed. "Send Marco, Luca, and Uncle Antoni

Chapter 10

That day marked what would've been our child's first birthday. I invited Damiano to the chapel tucked in the corner of the estate.In front of the tiny grave, I had set a long table. Every detail of the dinner was prepared by me. The candlelight flickered, casting shadows across his gaunt, hollowed face."Isabella, you're finally willing to have dinner with me," he said, eyes glistening with tears of joy. "This is our fresh start, right?"I lifted my glass, smiling just enough to convince him. "Yeah, this is our new beginning. Drink this, and everything that came before… will be over."The wine was laced with a double dose of muscle relaxant and neurotoxin, and Damiano never questioned it even for a second. He cradled the glass in both hands, as if performing some sacred rite.He threw his head back, and the wine was gone in one swallow."To us," he said."To our ending," I mused.The drugs hit fast. Within three minutes, the glass slipped from his fingers and shattered on the

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