All Chapters of They Chose His Mistress, so I Took the Throne: Chapter 11

Alessio apparently believed that, after everything he'd done, I ought to have forgiven him.A week later, my butler came to my study and said Alessio was at the door with something that belonged to me."Let him in."When I saw Alessio again, he was thinner, with deep shadows beneath his eyes and exhaustion in every line of his body.He held out a jewelry box. I told the butler to take it.Inside was the ruby suite the federal agents had recovered from Bianca.I glanced at the jewelry and gave him a brief nod."You've delivered it. You can go now. Thank you for coming all this way."A flash of hurt crossed his face, but he kept talking."Elena, Bianca is in federal custody. And I made the Costas pay for everything they did to you.""Can you forgive me? Will you give me another chance?"I almost laughed at the absurdity."I'm the Nightingale heir. Why would I want a Don whose own capos are preparing to depose him?"He froze.He'd always been the one looking down on others. This was the f