All Chapters of The Don Betrayed Me, I Took His Empire: Chapter 1 - Chapter 8

8 Chapters

Chapter 1

I knew the woman in white. Her name was Vera Fontaine.Three months ago, she was the one who had brought a drunk Damian home.I confronted him about it.Damian pulled me into a tight embrace and laughed, brash as ever."My darling Velia, are you jealous?"I stared at him coldly and said nothing.His warm kisses trailed along the corner of my mouth as he explained, earnest and innocent."She was just a waitress at the party. She only came to return the jacket I left behind."You know I've never been attracted to a delicate, helpless girl. Only a fierce lioness like you could ever be my equal."And now, Damian held a blushing Vera in his arms and made his announcement to the room."Vera is the purest, kindest woman I've ever known, and she will be the mother of my future heir."They kissed again amid cheers and applause.Damian had insisted that, for my safety, we keep our relationship secret until he became the Don.So no one in the room could have guessed that just this morning, he had

Chapter 2

A second later, he recovered and snapped at me."No. That's not happening. You're my woman, and you always will be."I frowned, about to say more.But Damian's new underboss, Vincent Ricci, spoke first."Velia, you were seriously injured on that last operation. The doctors said you'll probably never be able to have children."Vera's only role is to give the Don an heir. It doesn't change what you and Damian have. You need to be reasonable."His voice was laced with impatience.As if I were the one in the wrong.Standing there with his hands in his pockets, he looked nothing like the man who, just a year ago, had lost an entire shipment of firearms and begged me to save him.You would never guess that after I recovered the shipment, he had sworn an oath before God."God, if I, Vincent, ever betray Ms. Marchetti in this life, let a thousand bullets tear through my chest."Now he defended Damian and Vera as if it were the most natural thing in the world.He had known about them all along.

Chapter 3

The celebration didn't end until well past midnight.Early the next morning, the housekeeper knocked on my bedroom door.She looked deeply uneasy, choosing her words with care."Ms. Marchetti, Mrs. Corsetti says she has no appetite. She'll only eat breakfast if you make it yourself."I could hardly believe my ears. I frowned."What did you just say?"The housekeeper knew Damian and I had lived together for years, that we'd been only a marriage license short of husband and wife.But Vera was also the woman Damian had publicly acknowledged as his wife.She couldn't offend either of us.Her face turned deathly pale."It wasn't my idea," she said hurriedly. "Before the Don left this morning, he said Mrs. Corsetti is pregnant. From now on, everyone in the house takes orders from her."Vera was already pregnant.No wonder Vincent and Kellen had changed sides so quickly.I had no intention of making things hard for the housekeeper. Taking a deep breath, I forced down my anger and headed downs

Chapter 4

Vera lost the baby.But Elias told me she had never been pregnant in the first place. She and her doctor lover had fabricated the whole thing to deceive Damian.When I heard the truth, I couldn't help finding it bitterly ironic.Damian had deceived me.And Vera had deceived him.Worried that Damian might still be blinded by rage and take it out on me, Elias urged me to leave with him.But I refused.If I wanted to bring Damian down, I had to stay by his side. Only then could I gather evidence of his assassination plots, tax evasion, and other crimes.Left with no choice, Elias drove me back to the estate.Before I got out of the car, he reminded me again and again.No matter what I planned to do, I had to protect myself first.I promised I would.The moment I walked into the estate, the atmosphere was suffocating.Damian sat on the sofa, his deep-set eyes dark and cold as ice."Who drove you home? What is he to you?"Damian hadn't seen Elias's face.Through the tinted windows, he'd onl

Chapter 5

Damian looked into my icy eyes.Then, to my astonishment, he suddenly smiled."Sweetheart, did you do this out of jealousy? I thought you didn't even care."Calmly regaining his composure, he reached out as if to caress my cheek.The female agent beside us reacted instantly, stepping between us."Mr. Corsetti, you are not allowed to have any physical contact with the witness."Damian withdrew his hand with a hint of regret, his eyes never leaving mine."Velia, I told you before. Once Vera was pregnant, you'd still be the woman I love. Why did you have to take it this far?"All right. I'll forgive this little tantrum of yours. Now go to the police station and tell them this was nothing more than a jealous lover acting on impulse."I narrowed my eyes and scoffed."I underestimated how shameless you really are. I hope you're still this relaxed when the verdict is handed down."The smile vanished from Damian's face. His expression became so dark and menacing that the room seemed to grow co

Chapter 6

I handed the federal agents every piece of intelligence I'd gathered.As I rose to leave, the agent who had taken my statement stopped me."Ms. Marchetti, we may need to speak with you again. For now, we'd appreciate it if you stayed in the country and let us know before traveling."I nodded to show I understood.I walked out of the interrogation room just as Damian stepped out of another.The calm confidence he'd worn earlier had vanished.Only a grim heaviness remained.He stepped toward me, his gaze conflicted."Velia, every step I took to become Don bears your mark. Do you want to destroy us both?"I didn't slow down as I passed him."You think far too highly of yourself and underestimate me. If you think you're taking me down with you, you're mistaken."Every trace of my online activity had already been erased.Every physical trace had been erased with Elias's help.To the world, I was nothing more than an innocent bystander.Damian had risen to power with my help, but he had neve

Chapter 7

I made sure Damian received a copy of Hector's confession while he was in prison.In the video, Hector admitted that he and Vera had been lovers.He explained in detail how he had forged Vera's ultrasound images and medical records documenting a miscarriage.And the first night Vera slept with Damian, he hadn't been drunk at all. He'd been drugged.Word was that Damian nearly destroyed his cell in a blind rage. It took four correctional officers to hold him down.Elias set breakfast in front of me, openly gloating at Damian's misfortune."Damian has always been proud and arrogant. Finding out a woman played him this whole time probably hurts worse than a bullet."I took a bite of toast. Elias immediately lifted my glass of milk and held it to my lips.I took a sip of the warm milk before answering."This is just the beginning. What comes next will hurt him far more."Vera had never been anything more than Damian's mistress.News spread quickly that the Don had not only betrayed the wom

Chapter 8

My men turned Vincent and Kellen away.Soon after, Vincent was gunned down on the street.Kellen surrendered to the police, confessing to gang violence, multiple murders, and a string of other crimes.He was locked away, which was the government's revenge on him in its own right.I assumed Kellen would spend the rest of his life behind bars.But before long, more news reached me.Kellen was dead.He had hidden a razor blade inside his wound and smuggled it into prison.During dinner one evening, he slipped the blade out and tried to kill Damian.Damian spotted the attack in time and killed him instead.The incident cost Damian any chance of parole.The next time I saw him was in court.He looked far older than before. Wisps of gray had appeared in his hair, and all the confidence he'd worn when he first became Don was gone.His eyes locked on my rounded belly. Even the judge sentencing him to life without parole couldn't pull his attention away.Damian's lips trembled as tears of regre

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