All Chapters of I Summon the Don and Make Them Kneel: Chapter 1 - Chapter 8

8 Chapters

Chapter 1

A red light flickered once on the transmitter.A split second later, an encrypted reply flashed across the screen of my miniature receiver."Ten minutes. Clear the zone."The message was brief, yet it carried the chill of imminent bloodshed.Ten minutes. I just had to hold on for ten more minutes.If I could just keep my daughter, Mia Volpe, alive for those last ten minutes, Papa's private medical team would arrive, and we could finally escape this living hell.I pulled Mia into my arms, desperately forcing air into her lungs with mouth-to-mouth. Her chest heaved violently, a harsh wheeze rasping from her throat like a broken bellows. It was a sign that her airway was on the verge of complete obstruction."What are you doing?"Lorenzo Volpe's voice came from above me.He noticed me pressing the transmitter. Before I could tuck it away, his hand shot out and clamped around my wrist like iron bands."Calling the cops over this little mess? Or were you reaching out to that Solda

Chapter 2

Lorenzo knew damn well that Sophia had it out for me, yet he threw me to the wolves anyway.A silence fell upon the banquet hall as every eye turned toward Sophia. Her face brimmed with smugness as she fished a ring of silver keys from her clutch and twirled them around her finger."Oh, what should I do?" Sophia sighed dramatically. "Ms. Corleone has always been so high and mighty. I'm sure she wouldn't stoop to begging a mere secretary like me."I looked down at Mia in my arms. Her breathing was so faint that I could barely feel it, her chest no longer rising.I couldn't wait any longer. Another second and not even God himself could bring her back.I swallowed every last shred of my pride and turned toward Sophia, kneeling before her."Please… Ms. Bianchi, please give me the keys. Mia is innocent. If you have a grudge, take it out on me, but don't hurt her."Sophia didn't hand me the keys. Instead, she took two deliberate steps back, widening the gap between us. "Too quiet. I

Chapter 3

My fingers hadn't even reached the fireplace when a sudden force struck me from behind.Before I knew it, Lorenzo was behind me. He seized my wrist and yanked me back so violently that I lost my footing and slammed onto the floor.My gaze followed the sharp crease of his suit pants upward until it met his face—completely devoid of expression."Enough!" he snarled, his eyes smoldering with rage. "Losing your mind over that bastard was bad enough, but now you're willing to throw your life away too?"He looked at me with pure revulsion. "Elena, you disgust me. Meeting you is the greatest regret of my life."Regret?A jagged, bitter laugh tore through my sobs.Yeah, I regretted it too. I regretted not listening to Papa. I regretted ever crossing paths with him.These two pieces of filth had just crushed Mia's last hope for survival.I glanced at the clock on the wall.9:58 pm. Two minutes left.Mia lay motionless, her body already growing cold."Lorenzo, you'll regret this."I

Chapter 4

Behind the old man followed a team of Europia's top emergency medical specialists.As he stepped into the banquet hall, his hawk-like gaze swept the room, finally landing on me—held up by two Soldati—and then on Mia, lying motionless on the ground, her life hanging by a thread.At that instant, I saw a world-ending fury ignite in Papa's eyes."You are…" Lorenzo stammered, his legs giving out. "D-Don Corleone?"Papa didn't even spare him a glance. He walked straight to me and looked into my eyes.At that moment, words were redundant. The two Soldati holding me were paralyzed with terror. Their hands fell away, and I crumpled to the floor.Papa's Soldati immediately moved in, flanking me and hoisting me gently to my feet. Papa dropped his cane and scooped Mia's limp body into his arms, roaring at the medical team behind him, "If you don't bring her back, you will all be buried alongside her!"The medics moved with frantic speed—intubating, injecting, shocking her heart back to l

Chapter 5

"Which one of you made my daughter crawl?" Papa asked, his voice dangerously calm.No one dared answer.I slumped against a medical crate, my eyes fixed on the team performing CPR on Mia. My tears had run dry. I raised a trembling finger and pointed at Sophia, who was huddled in the corner."Her."I lifted my bloodied palms for him to see. "And that ice bucket. She made me fish for the keys in the ice-cold bucket."Papa followed my gaze to the bucket. One look at the ice and liquor was enough for him to understand exactly what had happened."Good," he said.With a flick of his wrist, two Soldati stepped forward. They smashed several crystal decanters, scattering jagged shards across the carpet, then dragged Sophia out of the corner like a stray dog."No! Please don't do this! Lorenzo told me to do it! I'm innocent!" Sophia shrieked, her once-perfect makeup now a smeared mess, making her look utterly pathetic.Papa didn't even spare her a glance as he issued a cold command. "

Chapter 6

"You thought you were indispensable?" I scoffed. "No. Right now, you're nothing but a penniless piece of trash.""This… This is a lie! It has to be!"Lorenzo let out a guttural, animalistic roar, throwing his weight against the iron bars. With one casual stroke, I had shredded his final ace in the hole. For a man obsessed with control, this sudden stripping of power was more agonizing than any physical torture."Save your breath," I said, cutting him off. I looked at the man I had once loved with cold indifference. "We've finished liquidating your business assets. Now, it's time to settle the family debt.""You? Settle a debt with me?"Lorenzo was shackled to a reinforced chair. He looked wretched, but the arrogance of a Capo still clung to him."Elena, you've got it backward. I'm the one who provided for you all these years. And now you have the nerve to talk to me about debts?"He glared at me, his lips twisting into a cold sneer. "You're only acting tough because your papa's

Chapter 7

The recording cut out with a sharp click.A graveyard silence fell over the interrogation room. Lorenzo sat frozen. The "true love" he had cherished above all else had played him for a fool and tried to bleed him dry, while the "bastard" he had cast aside was his only flesh and blood in the world."I… I…" His mouth opened, but the words stuck in his throat, replaced by a jagged wheeze. "Was I… was I really that much of a goddamn fool?"He buried his face in his hands and let out a soul-piercing wail. There had been no physical torture, but the truth was tearing his heart apart, piece by agonizing piece."I don't believe it. Mia is my daughter? What have I done? I almost killed my own daughter! Elena, this isn't real! You're lying to me, aren't you?"He went into a frenzy, slamming his head against the table until blood streamed down his forehead."It's real," I said, standing up and looking down at him as if at a pathetic creature. "For the sake of a woman who played you like a f

Chapter 8

I looked coldly at the man behind the gate."Do you hear that, Lorenzo?" I said coldly. "The doctors say Mia suffered from severe dissociative amnesia after the suffocation and terror she endured that night. To protect herself, her brain triggered a survival mechanism and wiped every single memory related to her papa." "In her world, the papa who once loved her is dead," I continued, snuffing out his last shred of hope. "To her, you're nothing more than a stranger who once tried to kill her."The words hit Lorenzo with more lethality than any bullet. His legs gave out, and he collapsed into the mud.He stared at his daughter, who couldn't even bring herself to look in his direction, and finally realized the true magnitude of what he had lost.Some sins couldn't be washed away by a few days of kneeling or a handful of tears.Even though he was still alive, he was already dead in her heart.He buried his hands in his matted hair and let out a gut-wrenching wail of despair. There

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