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Chapter 1

Ava, my husband's secretary, sent me a photo of a woman, beaten and naked.The caption read: "Don Lorenzo just acquired this estate, and you have the nerve to let your blind, ill-mannered old mother come crawling here to freeload? As the Don's personal secretary, it's my job to uphold the Falcone family's dignity.""This is the price for daring to trespass in the Don's home!"I stared, stunned for a long moment. I looked at my mother drinking red wine across from me, then looked again at the photo, at the ancestral ring on the woman's hand that my mother-in-law never removed. I immediately called Ava."Ava, are you insane? That's Lorenzo's mother!"The woman on the other end chuckled. "Oh, Donna, don't be dramatic. The Don was clear. Your mother is your problem, his mother is his. Don't get the two confused."With another flippant laugh, Ava hung up.I didn't dare waste a second. I ordered the housekeeper to have the private jet readied for New York and dialed Lorenzo's number."Lorenz

Chapter 2

At dusk, my car pulled up outside Lorenzo's heavily guarded private estate.The vast lawn was covered with expensive champagne towers and falcon banners symbolizing the family's glory. A massive, ornate iron gate was draped with a banner of gold thread."A Tribute to Our Great Madre, Welcome Home!" Beneath it, capos from every district and family allies were already gathered, glasses in hand.As I walked past, my gaze fell on a shape near a pile of refuse by the service entrance, carelessly wrapped in a cheap tarp.I froze, staring at the bloody limb peeking out from under the fabric.Just then, Ava, wearing a low-cut evening gown, sauntered over, her eyes red, feigning a look of distress."Donna, I honestly just wanted to teach your mother a lesson. Who knew she was so fragile? Her heart gave out suddenly, and we couldn't save her.""You're a magnanimous Donna. Surely you won't hold this against a humble secretary like me, will you?"So, she had tortured my mother-in-law to death.My

Chapter 3

Seeing that Lorenzo and Bianca had sided with Ava, the sycophantic mobsters around them began to pledge their loyalty."Exactly. These low-class people who try to ride our coattails are just leeches, sucking the family dry.""Today she just broke a rule. If we let her get away with it, the other families will say the Falcones have no standards.""Damn right. If we don't make an example of her, people on the street will think the great Falcone family has turned into a soup kitchen.""I'd say Ava acted decisively. She was eliminating a threat to the Don."In an instant, the party was filled with voices praising the secretary.It was as if the person she had tortured to death was some unforgivable traitor from a rival gang.And Ava herself had become the greatest hero, the defender of the family's honor.Ava shot me a triumphant glance before turning and leaning timidly against Lorenzo again."But Don, the person you dealt with was the Donna's own mother. What if she uses her hidden conne

Chapter 4

Lorenzo took my refusal as open defiance. The air around us instantly dropped to freezing."Helen, don't test my patience. My tolerance for you has its limits.""Your mother was a useless old woman, worth less than dirt. Ava is my right hand. Are you really going to defy me over a corpse?"Bianca rolled her eyes in annoyance. "That's right. Someone like your mother was just a drain on the family's resources. Ava was practically taking out the trash for us.""The least you could do is thank her, and instead you're trying to extort us?"I explained coolly."You misunderstood me. I said the body under that tarp is your birth mother. If her killer is to be forgiven, you are the ones who must sign."Hearing this, Bianca shrieked like a cat whose tail had been stepped on."Helen, are you looking to die? How dare you curse Madre with such venom at her sacred welcome ceremony?"Lorenzo was incandescent with rage. "Helen, it seems I've spoiled you rotten these past few years. So much so that yo

Chapter 5

Seeing Sofia standing there at the edge of the lawn, alive and unharmed, Lorenzo froze.His eyes widened as if he'd seen a ghost. He stared at Sofia, his lips moving, but for a long moment, no words came out.The assembled capos missed their Don's strange reaction. They were too busy looking the old woman in the worn woolen shawl up and down, their faces masks of open disdain."Where'd this peasant come from? Looks like she crawled out of the gutter.""This is a banquet for the Madre. Are the guards blind? How did they let this riffraff in?""Look at her. Pathetic. Probably smelled the roasted meat and cigars and thought she could scrounge for scraps.""A disgrace. How did filth like this get into the Don's party?"Ava strode forward on her high heels, her voice sharp as she barked at my mother."Who the hell is this beggar?""Get the hell off this estate. Now.""This is the Don's private estate, not a soup kitchen." As she spat the words, her eyes raked over my mother like she was som

Chapter 6

At her words, the yard fell silent.Ava was the first to gasp. "You... you old hag, what are you talking about?""How could you possibly be Helen's mother?"My mother asked, completely bewildered, "Why couldn't I be her mother?""Helen was worried about my old joints after years of hard work, so I was staying with her at our family home in the Italian countryside. I saw her get a phone call around noon and rush to charter a plane back, looking frantic. I assumed there was a family emergency.""Then I overheard her talking to Lorenzo and realized today was the important day his mother was returning home.""So, I booked the next available flight and came myself.""The Madre and Lorenzo both know me.""Miss, why do you insist I'm not Helen's mother?"My mother had always kept to herself in the countryside. For years, aside from attending our family wedding, she had hardly ever set foot in this city.On the rare occasions she had someone deliver Lorenzo cured olives and handmade cheese, sh

Chapter 7

At Lorenzo's question, Ava's face went deathly white."I... I don't know.""I was working myself to the bone directing the staff for the banquet. I turned around and saw this old woman with a limp, dragging a suitcase, trying to force her way in and shouting Helen's name. I was afraid she'd cause trouble with security, so I tried to run her off, but she threw a fit and refused to leave.""To uphold the Don's authority, I told my men to persuade her to leave."At this, Ava's eyes reddened. Tears welled as if on command, her voice thick with feigned injury."Since that person wasn't Donna Helen's mother... then it must have been someone Helen sent herself.""She's always been jealous of how much you value me. She knew how important the Madre's banquet was, that you bought this estate specifically for her. So she sent some old woman to cause trouble, just to sabotage the job you gave me!"Lorenzo's expression darkened.Bianca nodded thoughtfully."Brother, Ava has a point.""This whole th

Chapter 8

I stared quietly at Lorenzo's enraged face, and my thoughts drifted back to the years when we first fell in love.Back then, he wasn't Don Lorenzo Falcone.He was just a soldato hustling on the docks, a low-level enforcer with a meager salary who could get clipped in some alley at any moment.His father died young, and his mother, Maria, raised him and Bianca alone on a shoestring budget.I could still see him then, dressed in a cheap, faded jacket, clutching the pistol I'd bought him with my wages from waiting tables, his voice holding a trace of vulnerability he tried to hide."Helen, I can't keep spending your money."Without hesitation, I pressed all my remaining savings into his scarred hands. "You fool. I'd give you my life.""Are you telling me to just stand by while another gang hacks my man to death on the street? To become a young widow?"My words made his ears turn red, but his eyes burned brightly."Thank you, Helen.""I swear, one day, I will build an empire for us.""I wi

Chapter 9

Facing Lorenzo's relentless accusations, I suddenly had no desire to argue.I just said faintly, "Call a family meeting."Lorenzo was slightly taken aback. "What?"I looked at him. "Aren't you convinced this is all just my petty scheming?""A death on the estate is no small matter. According to family rules, the Consigliere should be summoned to convene the capos for a ruling.""If it was a trap I set, then let the council bring me before a family tribunal. They can deal with me as they see fit."The moment I said that, Ava's face went pale."Donna, I know you want to pin this death on me, but you can't just air the family's dirty laundry for your own selfish reasons!""So many allies are here for the Madre's welcome banquet. What will it look like if we call a meeting now?""If word of this gets out, how will the Falcone family save face with the Commission?""Are we going to celebrate the Madre's return or not?"Bianca immediately chimed in. "Exactly!""Helen, what kind of vicious pl

Chapter 10

At my words, the charming smile on Ava's face froze.The guests in the courtyard gasped, staring at me as if they'd seen something unholy.In the next instant, Lorenzo's rage erupted."Helen, are you insane?!""I just told you to behave, and you turn around and say something like that to curse my mother?!"Bianca jabbed a finger in my face, her voice a shriek."Helen, you damned jinx!""Do you have to bring bad luck to the Falcone family on such a sacred occasion?"Ava's eyes filled with tears. "Donna, I know you despise me, but you can't curse the Don's own mother just to get at me!""You... do you really resent the Madre so much?"The various bosses in the estate were also thoroughly provoked, and a barrage of insults rained down. "This woman is definitely crazy! How dare she say something so taboo?""She's so obsessed with fighting over a man that she's forgotten the most basic rule of this life: you don't disrespect an elder.""On the day of the Madre's glorious return, she says so

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