Semua Bab Too Late for Sorry, My Dear Don: Bab 1 - Bab 10

“Pretty thing, did Lucca send you? Whatever he promised you, we’ll double it.”The man’s gun was aimed at my head, his smile careless and cruel.Gunfire erupted behind me.Lucca’s men appeared like ghosts, ending the fight almost instantly.He pressed his foot down on the leader’s face.“How dare you touch my property?”“Dispose of them.”He removed his bloodstained gloves and tossed them aside before pulling me back to the car, never once looking at me the entire time.His palm was dry and warm, the heat sinking into my chest in an instant.“Be this careless again, and you’ll handle the trouble yourself.”I wiped away someone’s warm blood splashed across my clothes.“Why?”“Because you’re my finest work.”In that moment, my heart pounded violently because of him.Only much later did I understand that those words were merely the highest praise one could give a tool. However, the younger Eliana forgot her father’s dying warning to trust no one and treated those words as

When I rushed out of the meeting room, a cold rain had already begun to fall.Raindrops struck my face, and I could no longer tell whether what slid down my cheeks was rain or something else.Lucca’s faint laughter, delivered through an encrypted line to the head of the Balsamo family, continued to echo in my ears like the cold muzzle of a gun pressed directly against my heart.“Eliana? She was the sharpest blade in my hand, but now I have a stronger alliance.“Trading her and the lives of those subordinates you hate most for your trust is a very worthwhile deal.”I sat in the muddy water of an alley, my mind completely blank.After an unknown stretch of time, a pair of polished leather shoes stopped in front of me.He stood beneath a black umbrella, impeccably dressed. His composed elegance formed a world entirely separate from my disheveled state in the mud.“Lucca, why did you do this?”He looked down at me from above, his eyes filled with unyielding indifference.“Eliana,

Once I had changed into a black business suit in the lounge, I pushed open the doors to the conference room.Representatives from every major faction were already seated around the round table.Lucca occupied the primary seat on the left, while Victoria sat beside him in visible disarray, still desperately wiping at the stains on her dress.Matteo sat at the head of the table and gestured toward the seat next to him.I pulled out the chair, sat down, and tossed a document into the center of the table.“Regarding ownership of the South District port, the Moretti family will take seventy percent.”The room instantly erupted.“Seventy percent? Why don’t you just rob us?”A representative of the Balsamo family slammed his hand against the table as he stood.Leaning back in my chair, I rotated the pen between my fingers.“Robbery? That’s far too crude.“I wouldn’t mind letting a few of my Roses take a walk through your docks tonight.”At the mention of “Roses”, the room fell sil

The Moretti family’s strikes hit the Balsamo family’s key strongholds simultaneously.It wasn’t a simple firefight but surgical precision.I sat in the command vehicle, watching the red blips flash across the surveillance screens.“Zone A cleared.”“Zone B ledgers recovered.”“Zone C target, Victoria, acquired.”Leo’s voice came through my earpiece.“Bring her here.”Half an hour later, Victoria was dumped into the muddy water at my feet.She was drenched, her once-perfect makeup smeared into a chaotic mask, looking every bit the defeated, beaten creature she was.“Eliana! How dare you! Lucca will never forgive you!” she screamed.I crouched down, using the barrel of my gun to lift her chin.“You really think Lucca’s coming to save you?”“He’s my husband! We’re partners in interest!”“Is that so?”I pulled out my phone and started a video call with Lucca.The screen lit up, revealing his dark, brooding face in his office. It looked like he had just received the news.“

“Do you think that if I die, you’ll remember me forever?”His finger trembled on the trigger.I knew he wasn’t bluffing.However, I only stared coldly at him.“Lucca, don’t make your death sound so grand.“If you die, I’ll only feel relief.“No more tyrant, no more control freak using me like a tool.“I’ll marry Matteo, have children, and forget your name completely.”That sentence was the final, crushing blow that snuffed out the last spark in his eyes.“Forget me…” he murmured.“So that’s the best revenge for you.”Just then, the bar doors burst open.Matteo and his men stormed in.Without hesitation, Matteo raised his gun at Lucca.Lucca looked at him and let out a bitter, almost tragic laugh.“Treat her well, or even in death, I won’t spare you.”Then, shifting the gun from his temple, he aimed at Matteo instead.“Bang!”The shot thundered through the room.Lucca’s body slammed against the bar, glass and bottles shattering everywhere.Blood soaked his white shir