All Chapters of Married The Wrong Groom: Claimed By The Ruthless Don : Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

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CHAPTER FIFTY ONE: To The Hospital

“Oh my fricking Gosh!!!!”“Viki lost?”“How the fuck is that possible?”“I fucking used my rent to bet on Viki!”The noise from the crowd rolled on and on and every voice in the building was doing something different. Some were screaming, arguing, laughing, gasping and above all of it the commentators were trying to hold it together with very limited success."I have been doing this job for eleven years,” one of them said and his voice was genuinely shaking. "Eleven years. I have never … not once … seen anything like what just happened in this ring tonight.""Raina Valente," the second one said slowly, like he was still testing the words and checking if they were real. "Don Michael Valente's daughter and the rumoured wife of Don Maxton Retroferd. She has been fighting in this underground tournament under a fake identity and she just ….she just beat Viki Saaid. The four time defending champion. ..I don't have the vocabulary for this.""Nobody does… Nobody in this building does."Raina

CHAPTER FIFTY TWO: Refusing To Accept Reality

“Drive faster, Xander,” Raina said anxiously while staring into the distance.“We will be there soon, so just calm down,” Xander said with a comforting smile.‘It's a good thing I followed Maxton, if not I wouldn't have gotten such a good opportunity to be there for Raina at this moment’ Xander smiled as he remembered how he outsmarted Maxton. He believes that Raina was rightfully his and he will do everything in his power to get her back.While he was lost in thoughts, they finally arrived at the hospital entrance and he quickly parked on the side.Raina quickly got down and rushed towards the entrance, the doors slid open and the cold eye hit her face as she walked into the brightly lit hospital.She was already moving before her eyes adjusted to the bright white lights inside. Her feet knew exactly where to go, as she had walked these corridors enough times in the past years that she could do it with her eyes closed. left at the reception desk, past the pharmacy window, straight t

CHAPTER FIFTY THREE: Sorry For Your Loss

“Mom ..Mom.. Please…please don't leave me!” Raina screamed while clutching her mother's cold hand.Maxton came through the stairwell door first and Carlos was half a step behind him.They both stopped at the same moment because Xander was standing outside one of the rooms at the far end of the corridor and his posture said everything before either of them reached him.Xander was not a man who stood like that under normal circumstances. His arms were at his sides and his jaw was set and he was looking at the floor outside the room door like he didn't know what to do with his eyes.Maxton walked straight to him.Xander looked up and said nothing. He just moved slightly to the side so Maxton could see through the open door.Maxton looked and his heart clenched painfully and it felt like an invisible hand was clutching it tightly.Raina was on the floor. On her knees in the middle of the room with the cracked briefcase a few feet away from her and her hands flat on her thighs and her back

CHAPTER FIFTY FOUR: You Are Dead

The car had stopped at an ugly angle with two wheels off the road and the front end pointing at nothing useful.Lorenzo shoved the door open and got out.His legs were shaking. Not from fear. From the kind of adrenaline that had nowhere to go and was currently burning through his body like acid looking for an exit. He grabbed the roof of the car to steady himself for exactly one second then let go because he didn't need it.He was fine.He was completely fine and he was going to walk the rest of the way to that mansion if he had to.The other car was still sitting across the road with its headlights blazing directly at him. Lorenzo raised his arm to block the glare and squinted and his free hand went to the gun at his waist automatically. His fingers wrapped around the grip and he pulled it out and brought it up in one practiced motion."Get that car out of my way," he said. His voice was low and completely flat. "Right now."Nothing moved.The headlights stayed on. The car stayed exa

CHAPTER FIFTY FIVE: He Was Here

The taxi stopped two streets from the Valente mansion.Raina had told the driver to stop there deliberately. She wasn't going to pull up to the front gate in a civilian car and give Michael's guards thirty seconds of warning. She was going to come in from the side road through the gap in the east wall that she had known about since she was fourteen years old and Michael had never bothered to fix because he never thought anyone inside his own family would use it against him.He had never paid enough attention to her to think that.That was his mistake.She got out and didn't wait for change and started walking fast. Her hands were empty. She had left the briefcase on the floor of her mother's hospital room because there was nothing to do with two hundred million dollars now and she couldn't think about it without feeling the white cloth and the silence of those machines and she needed her mind clear right now.Completely clear.One thing. One person. One ending.Her lip was still split

CHAPTER FIFTY SIX: Little Princess

Maxton got out of the car before Carlos fully stopped it.He had seen the tail lights and had watched the black car carrying Raina turn off the side road and disappear into the darker street beyond and he had told Carlos to follow and they had been doing well right up until the bus.It came from the junction on the left and it was long and slow and completely indifferent to the urgency of the two cars sitting behind it. It filled the road from one side to the other and stopped there with its hazard lights blinking like it had all the time in the world.Maxton sat in the passenger seat and watched the seconds go by and said nothing because there was nothing useful to say.By the time the bus moved and Carlos pushed through the junction and reached the next road the car was gone. No tail lights. No movement. Nothing.Just an empty road going in three different directions with no way to know which one mattered.Carlos slowed down and looked at Maxton.Maxton stared through the windshield

CHAPTER FIFTY SEVEN: Maxwell Valente

Raina stood exactly where she was with her eyes on the man in the wheelchair and her brain doing something it almost never did.It went completely silent like every thought that had been running at full speed for the past several hours had hit a wall at the same time and stopped dead, and she couldn't process what she was looking at. She kept trying and kept failing and kept starting over from the beginning.Michael Valente was in the Valente mansion.She knew that because she had grown up in that house. Because she had sat across from him at dinner tables and stood in front of him in studies and watched him make decisions that destroyed people without losing a moment of sleep. She knew his face and his voice and the specific way his presence changed the temperature of every room he walked into.The man in that wheelchair had that same face.The exact same face.But he was looking at her in a way that Michael Valente had never once looked at her in her entire life and that was the thi

CHAPTER FIFTY EIGHT: Find Her In Forty Eight Hours

The Retroferd estate did not sleep that night as the Don's wife was missing.Every light in the main building was on and the guards on the outer perimeter had been doubled since midnight and changed shifts an hour early because Maxton had walked out at two in the morning and looked at the ones on duty and decided without a word that he wanted fresh eyes on every entrance.Nobody questioned it as they were all tense about what happened.The question on everyone's mind was who was so daring to kidnap the Don's legal wife?.So nobody questioned anything when Maxton had that particular expression on his face, because it never ends well for the person.He had been in his study since they got back from chasing the kidnappers. The footage from Carlos had come through at just past midnight and it contained seventeen different camera angles covering the roads in the area where they had lost the car that Raina was in. He had watched all of it repeatedly and he even watched a few times with Car

CHAPTER FIFTY NINE: Are You Taking Me For A Fool?

Michael's car pulled away from the Retroferd estate and Michael sat back in his seat and just stared through the window and said nothing for the first two minutes.His driver knew better than to speak when he was in such a terrible mood.The city was waking up slowly around them. Early morning traffic wasn't bad but Michael's hand was trembling with the thoughts that were running through his head or the particular cold sweat that had been sitting at the back of his neck since last night.He had not slept a wink because of everything that happened last night. How could he have predicted that Raina and Lorenzo would suddenly go missing at such a crucial time?.He would not admit that to anyone but it was true. He had sat in his study and stared at reports that said nothing useful and made calls that went nowhere and the longer the night stretched on the more a specific fear had taken shape in the back of his mind that he kept pushing away because he refused to let it be real.Gerald…wha

CHAPTER SIXTY: We Found Them

Michael's smile dropped just enough to show that the question had landed somewhere uncomfortable before he could fully prepare for it."What do you mean?" he asked.Xander looked at him with the patient expression of someone who had already decided they were done being polite but was giving one last courtesy before they stopped entirely."Stop," he said simply. "Just stop. You're making yourself look like a clown and it doesn't suit you." He put his hands back in his pockets and tilted his head slightly. "Everyone in this city knows what Raina's marriage was… It was a fucking peace treaty and a transaction. You needed the feud to end and you used your daughter as the payment." His voice was completely flat. No judgement in the tone, just facts being laid out one at a time. "And the man you chose for her wasn't even Maxton…It was Evan Retroferd. A man with no real standing, no real power and no real sense who ran away from his own wedding." He paused. "So please don't sit in my house

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