Lahat ng Kabanata ng Abandoned at the Altar, Married to His Uncle: Kabanata 1 - Kabanata 8

Before I could finish the sentence, Vincent’s face darkened, and he charged straight at me.I slammed my hand down on the panic button under the table first, the one Leo had installed just for emergencies, the one that would send the full estate security team straight to the main house the second it was pressed. Then I scrambled backward until my back hit the wall.Vincent saw exactly what I’d done. He didn’t panic, though. He just stopped in his tracks and let out a cold, mocking laugh.“Hit the panic button? Good.” He took two slow steps forward, staring daggers at my pregnant belly. “I was worried there’d be no audience. Today, everyone in this estate’s gonna see exactly what kind of whore the so-called Mrs. Sorrentino is, and whose bastard she’s carrying.”The second the words left his mouth, his right hand shot into his suit jacket, pulled out a loaded Beretta, and pressed the muzzle straight to my forehead.The cold metal seeped through my skin, and my whole body went rigid. I c

Leo’s roar froze Vincent solid in an instant. A fear of this “Iceman of the Underworld” had been ingrained in his very bones since childhood.In a few long strides, Leo was at my side, slicing through the ropes binding my wrists and ankles. His eyes locked on the blood steadily streaming down my legs, his voice tight with barely contained panic: “Seraphina, I’m taking you to the medical center right now.”I looked up at Leo, tears spilling uncontrollably down my cheeks. I clutched at his arm, my voice barely a whisper: “Leo… the baby… please save our baby…”A flicker of unnameable panic shot through Vincent at the sight.But when his eyes landed on Don Thaddeus Sorrentino, his grandfather, the Don of the Sorrentino family, he immediately steeled himself again. He was the only male grandson of the Sorrentino line, the boy the Don had raised and groomed as the family heir his whole life. The old man would never let anything happen to him.He rushed forward at once, putting on a perfor

Leo held me and the baby tighter, his dark eyes blazing with unbridled, murderous rage.“Seraphina, I swear to you, I will never let the people who hurt you and our baby walk free. Every bit of pain you’ve endured today, I will make them pay back.”Leo and I had our son cremated, and laid him to rest in the most auspicious, peaceful plot in the family cemetery.Vincent and Lena were dragged to the gravesite by the security detail, and forced to their knees before our baby’s headstone.It had only been a few days, but I barely recognized the two people before me.They were filthy, unkempt, their bodies covered in oozing whip marks, the air around them thick with the stench of sewage and blood.Leo pressed a steel-reinforced iron baton into my hand.“Seraphina, you do to them whatever you want. I’ll back you up, no matter what.”I closed my fingers around the baton, and looked down at the two people on their knees. They paled at once, bowing their heads and kowtowing frantically, begging

If Thaddeus had stood before me, hard and unyielding, demanding I spare Vincent’s life, my resolve would only have grown stronger. Leo was the de facto head of the Sorrentino family now, and he would have stood with me, no matter what.But he’d laid down his pride, a lifetime of power and authority, and begged to take the punishment for his grandson’s sins. For a long moment, I didn’t know what to do.Leo stepped up behind me, his hand steady on my waist. His sharp gaze swept over everyone gathered, and he snapped at the guards: “What are you standing around for? Are you going to let the Don make a fool of himself like this? Escort him off the grounds, now.”The guards snapped to attention at once, two of them stepping forward to gently but firmly lead Thaddeus away from the cemetery.Leo saw the fight leave my body, and took the gun from my hand softly, his voice low and gentle: “I’m this baby’s father. Vengeance is mine to take. Step back, my love，you don’t need to see this, don’t ne