Todos os capítulos de Ninth Betrayal: Our Pact Ends Here: Capítulo 1 - Capítulo 8

Natalina's POVThe sheets were a tangled mess, so it was all too easy to picture what had happened just moments before.I took a deep breath and looked at Antonio Ragusa, doing my best to stay calm, "Didn't we have an agreement, Antonio? You can play around all you want, but you're not allowed to bring them home."Besides, you clearly know what day today is."Antonio chuckled indifferently and struck a match to light a cigar. "There was a shootout downtown last night. It wasn't safe, so I brought her home to lay low."His words startled the woman, who scrambled to throw her clothes back on, looking at me with absolute terror."Please don't blame me, Donna Natalina. I swear I'll never do it again, and I'll leave right now."I helplessly looked down and noticed that her clothes were torn to shreds, so I dug out a set of my own for her."It's fine. You may leave, and I don't blame you."Over the last few years, such incidents had happened far too many times to count. Antonio used

Natalina's POVI went to the hospital the next day.Ignoring the doctor, Giannino Porcu's polite pleasantries, I went straight to the point and announced, "I want an abortion. Please schedule the surgery for me."Giannino froze. "But the baby is very healthy this time. You've spent so long trying to have a baby. Wasn't your goal just to have a child of your own?"Hearing Giannino's words, I couldn't help placing a hand over my stomach.My first miscarriage happened during the first year of my marriage to Antonio. Back then, the Ragusa Famiglia was in complete ruins and desperately needed money to keep operating.Since Antonio was unfamiliar with the Famiglia business, I had to travel around and manage operations on his behalf.I was ambushed on my way home from one of the trips. Our car veered off the road and plunged down a cliff, and when I woke up, I had lost my baby.Not long after the miscarriage, Antonio was kidnapped. I had no choice but to drag myself into the crossfire

Third-Person POVAntonio couldn't shake the feeling that something felt wrong. He hadn't dreamed of Natalina in ages, but tonight, he dreamed of the look in her eyes during their last fight.It wasn't a look of hatred or resentment. All she had done was calmly stare at him, as if she was looking at a ledger that was written off.That calmness unsettled him.He picked up his phone to call her, but two notifications caught his eye.The first was an alert from the Ragusa Famiglia's intelligence network with the headline reading, "The Corradini Famiglia is set to seal a marriage alliance with a Famiglia in Nipalino."The second headline read, "Multiple Famiglie have officially announced their withdrawal from all partnerships with the Ragusas. A catastrophic hit to the Ragusa Famiglia's financial chain is imminent."Marriage alliance? Withdrawal from all joint partnerships?Antonio recognized every word, but together, they made no sense.Natalina was clearly his wife and the Donna

Third-Person POVNatalina had once given Antonio a stable marriage, a thriving Famiglia business, and a baby that was supposed to be born into this world. But she had taken everything away overnight because of his betrayal.Only now did Antonio truly understand that every achievement he had been so proud of had never been a testament to his brilliance. Her papa gave him the docks, she negotiated his shipping routes, and other Famiglie had only agreed to work with him out of respect for the Corradini Famiglia name.She took bullets for his sake, suffered miscarriages for him, and even while she was sick, forced herself to negotiate and fight in turf wars on his behalf. And yet, he took all of her sacrifices for granted.Antonio used to crown himself a genius, indulge in blind arrogance, and keep an endless stream of mistresses. Even when Natalina told him she was pregnant, all he had done was respond with a half-hearted "Oh, that's nice".It wasn't until she walked away for good an