All Chapters of I Don't Love You Anymore, Don Vitaly: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

10 Chapters

Chapter 1

On the day I was discharged, a black car was parked outside the hospital with its engine turned off. Leo remembered to pick me up, but I no longer remembered how to love him.The nurse pushed the door open and entered my ward. "Miss Bella, Don Vitaly has completed the discharge procedures. You may leave now."I nodded numbly. When I walked out of the sanatorium, I could still hear several nurses' aides whispering behind my back."Poor thing. Look at the predicament she's in right now.""Why would you pity her? Don Vitaly has absolute power in Novena. He's rich and powerful, and he gives her unlimited pocket money. This isn't domestic abuse. All she has to do is pretend that she's leading a normal life. It's stupid of her not to."I would have lost it if I heard this a year ago, but now, those words did not even make me pause my steps. Leo was leaning against the car in a bespoke, black suit. The diamond cufflinks he was wearing reflected coldly under the sunlight. It was the b

Chapter 2

In the middle of the night, I felt thirsty. I got out of bed to go downstairs to get myself a glass of water, only to see Leo taking a call on the balcony. He spoke softly, but I could hear his conversation clearly. "All right. Be good. Just bid for whatever you fancy at the underground auction tomorrow. Don't worry about how much it will cost. Be a good girl, all right? I'm a little busy during this period, and I can't be by your side all the time."What a loving tone. It was a tone that used to belong exclusively to me, but not anymore. I listened for a while as I stood behind him quietly with the glass of water in my hand. I listened as he spoke gently to the woman on the other end of the call, cajoling her and telling her to be good, just like how he used to say to me.After a while, I found it pointless and turned away, but he suddenly called out to me, "Bella? When did you come downstairs?" He had hung up. "I was just…" He attempted to explain."I was thirsty and came down for

Chapter 3

Leo’s voice chimed in, "I'm fine as long as she's happy."Luca said, "Aren't you worried your woman will find out about it? It wasn't easy for her to finally leave the sanatorium. She might get agitated again and get sent to the sanatorium once more."Leo replied nonchalantly, as if this were a normal situation, "It doesn't matter if she finds out. She'll calm down after making a scene. I've always wondered how she never tires of repeating this cycle."Marco was heard speaking next. He was the one who said that I needed to be 'taught a lesson'. "She's much easier on the eye than before. At least she's keeping to herself now. Did you teach a good lesson after you brought her back, Leo? Is she still tight as before?""That's enough," Leo's tone sounded colder.The study was instantly silent as I continued flipping through my book while sitting on the sofa. I did not read a word in the book, but my heartbeat and breathing remained stable. If this were a year before, I would have barg

Chapter 4

I walked right past them to return to Leo's side. Leo looked down at me approvingly. I could smell Sophia's perfume on him and wondered what they were doing while I was in the washroom, but that was not important. I looked at my phone and saw that there were thirty minutes to go before 10 pm.Leo leaned close to my ear and said, "We'll have the wedding next month. I've visited a few potential locations. I'll get my underboss to email you the information tonight. You can pick your favorite venue."I looked up at him. "I've said before that we can forget about the wedding."Leo's tone started to get threatening. "There should be a limit to your temper. I've said before that you'll be my Donna. What else do you want me to do? Do you want me to get on my knees to beg you?" He was getting a little annoyed as he translated my indifference as an attempt at creating a scene."I don't want you to do anything," I replied. "I just don't want to marry you.""Enough," he snapped coldly. "Do I

Chapter 5

They were all notifications of missed calls and messages from Leo. I clicked to read the messages.[Pick up the call.][Where are you? Why aren't you at home?][Is this another one of your ploys to blackmail me by running away from home? Come home once you're done with your games. I won't go looking for you.]I looked at the time stamp on the calls and messages. The first message was sent at 1 am. He used three hours to 'take Sophia home'. I turned off my phone and put it in my pocket.There was a time when I constantly ran away from home in an attempt to catch Leo's attention, but it took less than one night before I would give up and return to his side in defeat because I would miss him and did not want him to worry. I could not live without him then.However, I was now in a car heading toward Castor. The road was bumpy, and the car kept rattling throughout the journey. Leo and I had taken a ride like this toward the city once upon a time. Back then, I leaned against his shou

Chapter 6

My phone continued ringing crazily after that, so I decided to turn it off. That night, I turned on my phone again only to see it receive several messages. The first two messages were from Leo.The first message read, [Pick up the phone, I'm begging you.]As for the second message, it read, [I've read your diary, Bella. I'm a jerk. Please pick up the phone.]The rest of the messages were from his three buddies.Luca asked me, [Where have you been? Leo turned Novena upside down looking for you. Hurry back or we're doomed! We shouldn't have said all those things to you. Please come back.]Marco said, [You should respond to Leo's messages even if you don't want to come back. Something's wrong with him. I'm begging you. I'll do anything you want.]Nico said, [Please come back. Leo isn't even taking care of his family business now. All he does is look for you. His security even threw Sophia out when she went looking for him. He'll get into trouble if you don't come back soon.]It f

Chapter 7

It was the rainy season, and it started pouring outside, but Leo did not leave. He knelt in the rain, looking lonesome. The rain splattered on him, and his hair stuck to his forehead from the rain while his wet shirt clung to his body.Leo did not use an umbrella, nor did he find shelter from the rain. All he did was kneel while facing my direction. He was using this method to make me feel sorry for him, just like how I used to torture myself to get him to feel sorry for me.If the old me had seen him kneeling in the rain, I would have dashed outside to drag him into the house and dry him up while saying ridiculous things such as I had forgiven him, or berate him for being silly, as my heart ached for him.However, the new me felt nothing upon witnessing his predicament. I had learned one thing back at the sanatorium. No one would love me if I did not learn to love myself. Leo knelt in the rain from day until night, and it got even colder at night due to the strong wind. I pulled

Chapter 8

"What do you want?" I blocked his way at the door as I did not plan to let him into the house. He looked past me and into the house. "Leo messed up Luca and Marco pretty badly. Luca's family's smuggling route has been taken down, and Marco has been sent off to the wild jungles of Adamo. As for me…" Nico pointed at the wound on his face. "I'm not doing that great either. I'm here to beg you to put in a good word for me."To be honest, you're the first person to turn Leo this way. You're the only one who can help me out of this." "There's nothing I can do. It's none of my business." I took a step back.Nico took a step forward. "How is this none of your business? You were the one who caused all of this. Leo went crazy on the day he realized you were gone. He almost beat Luca to death.""So what?" I looked back at him stoically.Nico continued, "You've seen it for yourself. He went crazy trying to find you. Even that necklace around Sophia's neck was forcefully pulled off by Leo's m

Chapter 9

It was not an easy experience as he had imagined it to be. "Do you have any idea what I went through, Leo? Back at the sanatorium, they would constantly show me surveillance footage of myself going crazy. I looked like a madwoman in the footage when I cried, laughed, and created a scene."They would show me how I lunged at Sophia when I found out you were sleeping together, and how you pushed me to the floor while shielding Sophia behind you. They would show me how you would rate my performance in bed with your three buddies after they slept with me, while I went crazy as I thrashed our home, as you stared coldly at how hysterical I was."I would watch footage of me being tied to the bed and force-fed medication, electrocuted, and locked up in solitary confinement as I cried and screamed your name. I screamed for you for 365 days, but you never showed up once."All of those memories once triggered a reaction in me as I trembled and found it difficult to breathe, but I was able to sp

Chapter 10

Sophia no longer looked like the beauty she was before. Her hair was extremely messy, and her eyes were red and swollen. Even her dress was wrinkly. There was no longer any necklace around her neck. All that was left were several wound marks that looked like scratches.She cried uncontrollably and lunged at Leo when she saw him. Sophia grabbed him by the collar and questioned, "How can you do this to me, Leo? How can you do this to my family? Why must you be so cruel to me?" Leo pushed her to the ground with one hand, the same way he pushed me back then. He was calm, and the contrast in attitude only made Sophia look even crazier. He lowered his head to stare at her intimidatingly, looking completely different from how he was with me these few days. He had become the terrifying Don once more. "I remember warning you about things."Sophia took out a wrinkled piece of paper from her purse. "I told you I was pregnant! Look! It's your baby. How can you abandon your own child?"I sat o

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