Semua Bab I’m Quitting After Marrying the Don as His Substitute Bride: Bab 1 - Bab 10

The night Dominic was ambushed by the rival family, I was stationed on the outer perimeter to provide tactical support.We had agreed on a strict thirty-minute timeline. He was to lead his men inside while I secured the escape route.But forty minutes passed, and the comms went dead.He had altered the operational plan without signaling me.Left completely in the dark, I fell right into the rival family’s trap. I fought brutally to protect the briefcase, enduring their relentless humiliation without ever breathing a word of the encryption key.At death’s door, I even threw myself into a raging fire just to ensure his safety.Only later did I discover that the briefcase I carried was entirely empty.If Dominic had just told me the truth, I could have ditched the decoy and escaped.But he chose silence.I remembered violently gripping his lapels, crying and demanding to know why.Gritting his teeth, his voice choked with emotion as he replied, “Sienna, I’m so sorry. I couldn’t

Dominic didn’t answer me right away.He merely cast a look of sheer, utter disbelief in my direction.I forged ahead. “We established the rules the very night I entered the Cross family—it was a marriage of convenience for both parties. Sign the divorce papers, and we can both walk away from this with some shred of dignity.“Or are you planning to cheat me out of what’s rightfully mine, too?”His eyes grew entirely bloodshot, and he opened his mouth to speak.Elena, practically hanging on by a thread, cut him off weakly. “You really are delusional, Sienna. But then again, you were ready to murder our own mother. There’s nothing you won’t do.”The slight movement caused her to cough up fresh blood.Panicked, Dominic scooped her up in his arms, desperate to soothe her. “We’re getting you into surgery right now. Don’t say another word.”A heavy silence descended upon the grand hall, broken only by my mother’s frantic weeping.The private doctor arrived at the exact moment my atto

My attorney and I had chosen a quiet café to discuss our strategy.When I arrived, he was on the phone, his face carved into a mask of grim severity.Ten minutes later, he hung up, and an immediate smile broke across his face.“Ms. Vance, regarding the lawsuit filed by Dominic Cross, their legal team has completely withdrawn it. Furthermore, the asset partition contract has been signed and executed.“You are officially authorized to liquidate and withdraw half of the Cross family empire. However... regarding the actual divorce, Dominic firmly refuses to grant it.”I could take half his empire, but he wouldn’t let me go.Hearing it back only made me feel a deep sense of mockery.But the fact that Dominic had surrendered half of his life’s work without a bloody war struck me as incredibly suspicious.I didn’t let myself overthink it.“Fine. Initiate the asset wire transfers immediately.”Once the paperwork was finalized, I returned to my hotel room. The high-end suite I had boo

Before I could slip away from the city, word of Elena’s latest stunt reached me.A few loyal soldati from the family who used to be stationed under my direct command reached out to give me a heads-up.Elena had marched straight into the family’s executive boardroom during a high-level assembly, weeping and wailing about her manufactured tragedies to the capos. She twisted everything—from her theatrical poisoning to the way I had supposedly frozen her out.She went so far as to claim that I was the one who paid the painter to abduct her eight years ago. She spun a sob story about running for her life and enduring endless torture, only to escape back home and find her paranoid sister poisoning her wine out of fear of losing the throne.She reminded everyone that Dominic’s original bride was supposed to be her, framing me as a ruthless social climber who used every dirty trick in the book to steal her life of luxury. She claimed she merely wanted to come home to her family, but I was

I looked up toward the stone crest, only to find a heavily armed military tactical unit ambushing us from behind. They aggressively fanned out across the courtyard, brandishing automatic weapons.The exact second they unleashed a barrage of automatic gunfire, the entire clearing dissolved into absolute chaos.Recognizing the tactical disadvantage, I immediately prepared to fall back.But Dominic threw his body directly in front of mine. “Get down! Sienna!”A dense hail of bullets tore mercilessly through his chest, while Elena was also struck multiple times during the opening volley.Amid the deafening crossfire, I spun around and raised the barrel of my weapon, sending a clean round straight into Elena’s forehead.Only after watching her lifeless body collapse to the dirt did I pivot toward my primary escape route.Dominic remained firmly anchored in front of me, using his dying breaths to shield my retreat and screaming at me to run.I cast one final glance back at him.The