All Chapters of The Mute Bride For The Don: Chapter 231 - Chapter 240

Why does that name ring a bell?Something clicked immediately in Ivan’s memory. Anna, wait… that girl. The maid who had once shared quarters with Vanya during her early days in the household. He looked at Karena again. “Did Vanya ever share a room with that girl before?”Karena’s pause lasted half a second too long. “Yes, Don. A long time ago, when she first arrived.” She confirmed.“Okay. Get me her address now,” Ivan ordered and turned to one of his men. “Enzo, handle it.”Anna lived in a cramped apartment in the outer district. Ivan went along with the men himself, and they found Anna outside, about to leave the place with a half-packed bag held against her chest.“Going somewhere?” one of the men asked, catching her off guard, and her eyes widened. Her face instantly paled as her eyes moved over the small group in front of her and settled on Ivan.With shock, the bag she was carrying slipped out of her hold and fell hard to the floor.“No… I—I’m going to see my grandmother,”

“You won’t get far!” Tanya shouted, dragging herself after Vanya on one knee and reaching desperately to haul her back by the leg.Both of them looked up at the sudden light.“Ivan… Ivan…” Vanya called for me breathlessly, disbelief written across her face, as though she wasn’t sure whether I was real or merely a figment of her imagination.Tanya’s face had gone completely pale, and terror danced in every inch of her expression as she froze on the spot, then shook her head, scrambled backward, and stammered. “No, no, no… This cannot be happening! H-how did you find this place? This isn’t supposed to—”I dropped to my knees in front of Vanya, my shoulders shaking as the tears I thought I could control streamed down my face at the sight of her.Tanya shot up and attempted to flee, but she only made it three steps before she slammed directly into one of my men. Marco closed in from the other side, trapping her between them in seconds.My hands trembled uncontrollably as I pulled Vanya’s

I paced in front of the doors, refusing to take a seat and Marco joined me in the empty hallway a few minutes later.“Where’s Tanya?” I asked, not taking my eyes away from the operation timer above the door.Marco’s voice was low. “She tried to get away, but she’s locked down, Don.”“And her accomplice?”“The maid is locked away in a separate cell,” he answered quickly.“Good.” My eyes darkened.Tanya and the maid would get every drop of the suffering they longed for and would only wish to escape from it by death. I’d make sure of that, but right now, nothing mattered to me beyond my wife’s safety.The doctor returned an hour later. “Don, we’ve managed to stabilize the bleeding and close the worst of the wounds, but we need to proceed with another check-up now,” she said. “Your wife’s body cannot tolerate waiting for the drug to be fully reversed. Her body can no longer sustain the pregnancy. We need to take out the baby now.””Okay. Get on it,” I said immediately.I tried to calm my

Care?“Why should I care about you or Anastasia?” I sneered. “You both have done nothing but be a thorn in my side. The only things you and that mother of yours have ever understood are how to manipulate people and play dirty games. Your lives are so fucking bitter that you never work for what you need and try to snatch it right from other people. You long for happiness that belongs to others, and you try to hurt whoever stands between you and what you want. And heaven forbids that goes to hell, Tanya, because right then you will do everything, including ruin your life, just to see me suffer.”“Give either of you a chance to breathe, and the first thing you do is plan your doom all over again.”“You’re not fit to be a mother,” I continued, crouching down to look her right in the eyes. “You are a dent in this world, a mistake that isn’t fit to be anything else, not even to stand in the same room as Sofia. That little girl knows you pushed her. So tell me, Tanya, how exactly do you plan

“You betrayed her because you were too much of a coward to speak to me or to her! Why didn’t you tell me all this was happening?” I pressed. “Did you think if you had told me, I would have overlooked it? Did you think if you had told me, I wouldn’t have done anything?! One word to either of us, and this would never have happened. Vanya trusted you! You had just one little assignment to do, to tell Vanya whatever was going on with you or whoever was threatening you, and still, you chose to fear Tanya!”“She considers you her best friend here because she has never had a friend. I decided to let you be with her because I thought it was okay to have someone to speak to in the house, at least. Then you turned around and became this evil little thing?!”I drove a hard kick in her stomach, and she screamed. She doubled over and crawled backward from me, begging as she shivered violently.I had no intention of killing the maid. I knew Vanya would still ask for her and I had no interest in fi