Lahat ng Kabanata ng Playing Dead and Breaking the Don-To-Be: Kabanata 1 - Kabanata 9

"No… I just wanted to bring her some food…" I replied.Before I could even put the thermal container in front of him, Vincenzo snatched it from my hands.He lifted the lid, glanced inside, and frowned with irritation. His tone was sharp and impatient as he said, "Sofia's carrying our heir. Her stomach is delicate. She can't eat this."I froze. My fingers were still hovering in the position I'd held when I'd reached out.I'd started cooking this tomato beef stew at 5:00 am, simmering the beef until it was tender. Vincenzo used to eat two big bowls of this.However, now, in his eyes, it had become a "risk" to Sofia."I made it myself. It's clean, and it suits her tastes," I said in a trembling voice as I wrung my hands.Vincenzo didn't seem to hear. He turned and dumped the entire pot of stew straight into the trash."Ella Pezzano, don't push your luck." He spun toward me, and his gaze was ice-cold."If you hadn't doused her with water, would her temperature have spiked to 102 d

Early the next morning, I was still resting when a group of black-suited bodyguards burst in.Without a word, they grabbed me and started hauling me out."What are you doing? Let go!" I struggled, but it was useless against their overwhelming strength.In the end, they threw me into the Costa family's council room. The elders of both the Costa and Camorra families were seated there.The lead elder looked at me. His gaze was ice-cold. "Ella Pezzano, you're just a slum orphan who somehow earned Vincenzo's pity. You should've been grateful and stayed in your place!"But you were ignorant and ungrateful. You kept going after Sofia. Last night, you even poisoned her food and caused a miscarriage! Do you admit what you've done?""I didn't do that!" I wrenched free from the guards and scanned everyone in the room before my gaze landed on Vincenzo."The miscarriage has nothing to do with me. I never harmed Sofia. You can't condemn me based on assumptions!"My voice trembled, not from f

Vincenzo meant every word. That same day, he mobilized the full force of the Costa family. One team investigated the fire. Another dug into Sofia's so-called miscarriage.The first crack appeared in the hospital records.When Sofia claimed she had a 102-degree fever and signs of a miscarriage, she was treated at the Costa family's private hospital.Vincenzo ordered all the records from that day pulled, but there was no registration under her name and no record of any doctor treating her for a miscarriage caused by a high fever.He had the doctor Sofia named dragged in. The man tried to lie until Vincenzo's men pinned him to the wall and pressed a blade to his throat."S-Signorina Camorra told me to lie!" the doctor stammered. "She said if I admitted to treating her and confirming her pregnancy and miscarriage, she'd give me a large sum of money! I never even examined her. Those diagnoses were all fake!"Vincenzo stared at the empty medical file in his hand, and his knuckles turne

Ella's POVTwo weeks later, I was at a business summit in Norvale. Out of nowhere, I felt a familiar gaze on me.I turned, and there was Vincenzo.He wore a black coat, his hair was disheveled, and his eyes were bloodshot. He looked utterly haggard.He stared at me with a wild obsession burning in his gaze.My heart sank, and I instinctively tried to step away, but he was already striding toward me."Ella!" he shouted, his voice cutting through the chatter. "It's really you! You're not dead!"Everyone around turned to look. Their gazes were full of curiosity and scrutiny.I took a deep breath, forcing myself to calm down."Signor, you've got the wrong person," I said coldly. "I'm Luna Kane, not Ella.""Wrong person?" Vincenzo laughed. His voice dripped with madness."You can change your name, your hair, everything, but I know you. I'll never forget your eyes, your nose, and the corner of your mouth."He reached for my hand, but I stepped back. My bodyguards moved in and blo