Todos los capítulos de The Don's Ruthless Empire: Capítulo 351 - Capítulo 360

POV: Isabella"Isabella! Isabella, come out here now!"Camilla's voice tore through the courtyard before the sun had even cleared the harbor wall, and I knew before my feet touched the cold floor that Nico had already told her everything.I did not bother with a robe. I ran down the stairs in my nightclothes, my hair still loose from sleep, my heart slamming against my ribs harder with every step. When I reached the courtyard I found her standing in the middle of it with a letter crushed in her fist, her whole body shaking with something too sharp to be only anger."Tell me it is a lie," she said the moment she saw me, her voice raw. "Tell me my brother did not sell this family to a stranger from a port city I have never even visited.""I cannot tell you that," I said quietly, stepping closer over the cold stones. "I wish I could.""You wish," she repeated, and the word came out of her like a blade dragged slowly across skin. "You wish. Do you have any idea what I gave up to stand bes

POV: Isabella"Isabella! I found her. I think I just made everything worse."Nico came through the courtyard gate so fast he nearly fell over his own feet, and one look at his face, pale and stricken, told me whatever happened at the harbor had shaken something loose in him he could not yet name."Sit down before you say another word," I told him, pulling out a chair, my own pulse already climbing. "Then tell me everything, slowly, before your mother sees your face and decides you have already been shot."He sat, though his knee kept bouncing with a restlessness I recognized far too well, the same restlessness I used to feel every time I chose reckless honesty over careful silence. The morning light through the kitchen window caught the sheen of sweat still on his forehead. "Her name is Valentina," he said. "She was waiting for me at the harbor, as though she already knew I would come looking.""And did she tell you the truth, or did she tell you exactly what her employer wanted you t

POV: Isabella"You brought him back into that harbor once already."Rosa's voice cut sharp across the drawing room, her hands shaking so badly by the time we gathered that she finally set down her tea untouched, as though even pretending at calm had become too heavy a weight to carry."And now you are telling me the same man who nearly destroyed this family was standing close enough to watch you fall for one of his own people," she said to Nico, her voice tight with a fear she no longer bothered to hide."I did not fall for anyone," Nico said, though the color rising in his face told a different story than his words did."Do not lie to your mother," Salvatore said quietly from the corner, not unkindly, but with the particular weight of a man who had spent years learning exactly what denial cost a family. "Not tonight, of all nights."I watched Nico's jaw tighten, though he did not argue further. "Fine," he said. "Maybe I care what happens to her. That does not change the fact that she

POV: Isabella"They are not attacking the Accord for the shipping lanes."Matteo said it the moment he walked through the door, before I could even ask how the confrontation with Dario had gone, a stillness in his face I had only seen in him twice before, both times after he had learned something that reshaped everything he believed about his own family's safety."They are attacking it to reach Nico," he went on. "To use his future as our named heir as proof that the whole agreement was always built on children being handed obligations they never chose."I sat down slowly, the full weight of it settling into my chest like cold water. "Nico is not our heir," I said. "Not officially. We have not even held that conversation as a family yet.""They do not need it to be official," Matteo said. "They only need it to be believable enough to make every house that trusted the Accord start doubting its foundations.""Then we control the story before they can," I said, my mind already racing ahe

POV: Isabella"You went alone. After everything we promised each other."The words came out of me sharper than I intended the moment Matteo told me about the lighthouse, his hands still unsteady from the walk back, and I felt a flash of anger sharp enough to surprise us both before it settled into something closer to fear."I know," he said quietly. "I am sorry. I needed to face him once without anyone watching me decide who I actually am when the danger is real and immediate.""And who did you decide you are?""Someone who still has more questions than answers," he admitted. "But someone who is no longer willing to let fear make our decisions for us. He told me Valentina may no longer belong to him the way she once did."I absorbed that slowly, my mind already racing toward Nico, toward the danger he might be walking into if he found her before we understood exactly what that meant. "Then we need to find her immediately," I said. "Before Nico does something reckless trying to save a