Alle Kapitel von The Don Forgot Me, so I Forgot Him: Kapitel 1 – Kapitel 9

As if that wasn't enough, he grabbed a long toy gun from the table and aimed it at my head. "Bad lady, bad lady, you're being mean to Mommy Lena. I'm gonna shoot you dead!"It fired with several sharp pops, steel pellets flying out. One of them hit me right in the eye.Not lethal, but the pain went straight to the bone.He stood in front of Lena with the gun raised, as if I were the enemy. "You ugly witch. If you bully Mommy Lena again, when I grow up I'll shoot you full of holes with a real gun!"I clutched my eye, dizzy and seeing stars.My own son, the child I loved more than anything, was spitting the cruelest words at me.Those fake bullets had already torn through my heart."Carl, who is your mommy?"Charles didn't care how I felt. He scooped Carl into his arms and held him tight. "Layla, fighting with me is one thing, but taking it out on a child?"His face went completely dark, a vicious edge flashing in his eyes. "Lena is sensitive and her health isn't good. Have you really su

Lena blushed and pressed a finger to her lips.I kept my eyes on Charles, as though I hadn't heard a word Carl said."I'm not the one pushing my luck, Charles. You are. I haven't held you accountable for your infidelity, and you should be grateful for that. Don't forget, you got this marriage by kneeling at my feet and begging."The color drained from Charles's face. My words had struck a nerve.Lena looked at Charles with concern. "Charles, don't talk to Layla like that. She's not wrong. I'm the one at fault. I'll disappear. Forever..."Charles fixed me with a hard stare. After a long moment, he picked up the divorce papers. "Layla, you know me. I'm not a kind man. Divorcing me comes with a price."He picked up a pen, tapped it against the papers, and lit a fresh cigar."The Augusto Family is muscling in on our arms-smuggling route. Take that route back for me, and I'll agree to the divorce. But think carefully. They built their empire on contract killing. They've got ways of dealing

It was two weeks before I was moved from the ICU to a regular room.The room smelled strange.I opened my eyes and saw Charles sitting by my bed. His hair was a tangled mess, his stubble had grown into a scraggly beard, and his clothes looked like the same ones he'd been wearing the last time I saw him.When he saw me awake, he blinked in disbelief, then bolted out of the room shouting for a doctor.Isabella and Mark broke into smiles when they saw me awake, thanking God over and over."Layla, thank God you're finally awake.""God, you scared me half to death! That snake Lena is gone for good—your brother made sure of it!"I looked at them with no expression at all.These were the very people who had dismissed me, who had hurt me again and again.Now they were putting on this concerned act. It was nauseating.The gunshot wound in my chest flared with pain at the slightest movement. And the wounds inside, the ones that would never heal, were gifts from every single one of them.I pulled

Charles reached to reject the call, but I was faster. I picked up and put it on speaker."Charles, save me! That Augusto capo broke out of prison! He's looking for me everywhere, and he's going to kill me!" Lena was screaming and crying, her voice hoarse.Without Charles's protection, Lena's claim to being a Ferraro princess was nothing but an empty title.The Augusto capo she'd burned was certain to come after her, and nothing was holding him back."Charles, have you forgotten how much we meant to each other? Save me, take him out for me, I swear this is the last time, and then I'll disappear forever!"Ryan let out a quiet laugh.Under Ryan's contemptuous gaze, Charles's face flushed crimson. "Lena, I warned you not to contact me again. If you do, I'll kill you before he even finds you!"He hung up, blocked her number, and showed me his phone. "Layla, she called me. Look, I've blocked her. I'll never have anything to do with her again!"But I'd stopped caring long ago. "Charles, I rea