บททั้งหมดของ Why Cry When You Made Me Leave?: บทที่ 1 - บทที่ 8

My ex-fiance Enzo Vitale stared at me, waiting for me to give in.I pushed him away and said coldly, "Enzo, you should go keep Victoria company. My art exhibition is about to start. Please get out of my way."My sister, Victoria Moretti, had just woken up from her coma and was constantly clinging to Enzo. In the Moretti family, her needs always came before mine.Enzo's hand froze in midair. A flicker of panic crossed his eyes. "Franca, you used to say you wanted me by your side for every important moment in your life."I walked forward and replied, "I was foolish back then. Now, I don't dare hope for that anymore."When I stepped out of the garage, our family car was waiting beside the fountain. My parents were standing by the door in their custom-made outfits.Papa stepped forward with a gentle smile."You may be adopted, but we raised you for 20 years. Our love for you is real." He patted my shoulder, his tone firm. "It's your first solo exhibition. Of course we're going to be

When I returned to the manor, I locked my bedroom door and called the design institute in Slento again.After I settled everything over the phone, I suddenly heard laughter from downstairs.My brother, Giovanni, was back.When I was little, I used to cling to him constantly. But after he went abroad to take over one of the family's branches, he became so busy that he barely had time to call me.I had texted him asking if he could come back for my first art exhibition, but he never replied.I certainly wasn't foolish enough to think he'd rushed home to surprise me, since my exhibition was already over.I quietly looked downstairs and saw Giovanni holding Victoria tightly in his arms."I came home too late to celebrate my principessa waking up," he said dotingly. "I deserve to be punished."Victoria pouted playfully and slipped her arm through his. "Then you have to make it up to me. Put your work overseas on hold and spend time with me every day," she teased.Giovanni laughed a

Enzo's face went pale. The news hit him like a bolt from the blue. His tall frame swayed, completely stunned by what he'd just heard."She's dead? No! That can't be! Was it the Gambinos? Or did another family kill her when we were away?"Enzo utterly lost his composure. His mind spiraled with gruesome images of killings and torture, each one more horrifying than the last, until he could barely breathe.Giovanni gripped his phone and took a deep breath, trying to stay calm as the heir to the family. But his voice trembled when he spoke. "Send out everyone we have. Find her. I want to see her, dead or alive!"He grabbed Enzo by the collar. "Get a grip! This is just another one of her games! She's jealous because we've been spoiling Victoria these past three months, so she pulled this stunt just to get under our skin!"Enzo's eyes were bloodshot. "No, Giovanni. You don't get it. If she was only throwing a tantrum, she wouldn't have gone as far as getting a death certificate."Erasin

They refused to believe that their beloved eldest daughter could be such a monster.But after Giovanni looked into it himself, the truth came out, and they could no longer deny what Victoria had done.The car accident and surgery that had supposedly left her in a coma had been an elaborate lie in the beginning.Rebellious by nature, Victoria had no desire to go to school or shoulder the responsibilities of becoming the family heir, so she paid her doctor a fortune to help her fake her condition.Whenever our parents were away, she lived it up at a luxurious villa outside the hospital. Whenever they came to visit, she would rush back to her room and lie there pretending to be unconscious.To prevent our parents from discovering the truth, the doctor claimed that Victoria's weak immune system made close contact dangerous. So he only allowed them to watch her from a distance.Over the years, the enormous medical bills my parents paid for Victoria's treatment had gone straight into