Todos los capítulos de The Don Told Me to Know My Place, I Took Everything from Him: Capítulo 1 - Capítulo 7

The next evening, I finished up my work and drove home.Living away from the villa added two hours to my daily commute. By the time I got home, I was completely drained.I punched in the code out of habit and pushed open the apartment door, and there was a familiar figure on the sofa.Daniel. Again."Did you leave this at the house on purpose?"The second I stepped inside, a pregnancy test with two lines came flying at my face.He stared at me coldly, his voice thick with disgust."Daisy, I told you to know your place. Don't go dreaming about things that will never be yours.""I told you I'm not pregnant! That isn't..."Before I could defend myself, he was on his feet, crossing the room in two strides.He picked the test up off the floor and held the two lines out for me to see, his eyes bloodshot with rage."You knew Sophia just got pregnant with my child. You left this behind on purpose. Were you trying to upset her?""She found it this afternoon and cried for hours."I looked at him

I slept badly that night.I dreamed I was eighteen again. Daniel was teaching me to shoot, shell casings scattered across the floor as he stood behind me with his hands over mine, telling me to relax.I turned my head and saw him smiling at me. Then he let go and walked away. I stood there calling his name, and he never looked back.He walked into a wall of white fog, and when the fog cleared, I was suddenly at the psychiatric facility. My mother crouched in a corner, mumbling, "I never should have had you."I jolted awake. It was already light outside.I turned on my phone and saw a new message.From Andre."Ms. Parker, the Don wants you to move back to the estate today. The car is waiting downstairs."I sat up and pulled back the curtain. Sure enough, a black sedan was parked below, Andre standing beside it, waiting.I thought about last night.Daniel must have been afraid I'd run.After I asked him for my freedom, the thought must have bothered him more and more once he got home.So

Matteo's people came for me at two in the morning. Everything went smoothly.Daniel was away on business. For all his fear that I would run, some part of him still believed I couldn't survive without him.In his mind, I was alone, with no money and nowhere to live. My mother was still in his hands, and perhaps I still had feelings for him. He was certain I had nowhere to run.So he hadn't posted many people to watch me.By the time I reached the house where Matteo was staying, the sky was starting to pale. Matteo was waiting for me on the living room sofa.An unlit cigar sat between his fingers. When I came in, he tipped his chin up."Your mother's been delivered safely to the facility you named."Matteo paused. Then, as if reading the question on my face, he added something else."Don't worry about any traces at the old facility. I infiltrated many of Daniel's businesses long ago, and nearly everyone there works for me. We forged the authorization signatures and destroyed the security

Three more days passed, and news began trickling out of the estate in bits and pieces.At first it was vague hearsay: Sophia and Daniel fighting viciously, a vase smashed in the study, her storming out at midnight to sleep at a hotel.I paid it little mind. Of course Sophia would rage and storm. When she came back and chose Daniel, she chose the Don at the height of his power, not this failure kept on a short leash by the Elders while one business after another collapsed.She had believed she could use the baby to force enough concessions from Daniel for her family, so she had kept him firmly in hand.But Daniel thought her appetite was too big, so he kept putting off the wedding.Then, as Daniel lost ground step by step, Sophia finally grew anxious.Even so, she was still willing to believe in Daniel, to give him a chance to make a comeback.But the cutting accusations kept coming, and cracks spread through whatever was left between them. The fights grew more frequent and more vicious