Todos los capítulos de A Family's Fatal Mistake: Capítulo 1 - Capítulo 8

I let the bodyguards escort me to the place where I would be judged. When I looked up, I saw the Valenti family's underground arena.Countless fights to the death had taken place there. Only the victor ever walked out alive, stepping over the loser's body.And today, the doors of this private hell had been opened just for me.I was still wearing the clothes from the club. They had been torn nearly off me when I was dragged away, so I kept one arm across my chest to cover myself.The seats below were packed with the most important people in the underworld.Even the old bosses who normally showed their faces only at private dinners had come, every last one of them.And I was cuffed at the center of the platform, standing on a bed of sharpened spikes, the ultimate punishment, reserved for prisoners with the worst crimes on their heads.I looked out at the aristocratic guests below. Every one of them had come for the same thing, to judge me, the real heiress the Valenti family had only jus

On the screen, I stared at Leo, my voice so hoarse I barely recognized it."You knew I was carrying your child, didn't you?"I braced myself against the wall and slowly pushed myself to my feet.Leo answered calmly. "Yes. I knew. So I already took care of it for you.""What?" On the screen, I went completely still. "Took care of it? What does that mean?"Leo's expression stayed flat, as if he were about to discuss something utterly ordinary."You know Emma's baby is gone. So your baby..."Something flickered in his eyes. "...didn't need to stay either."My mind went blank. Something inside me collapsed all at once."You... what did you say?"Leo walked toward me, one step at a time."Emma's baby is gone, so yours had to die too. Do you understand?""But that was our child! How could you! Are you even human!"I fisted the front of his coat. "When did you do it? When!"Leo threw me off without even looking at me. "The sixth day you were in the basement."A doctor examined you. You were a

The image on the huge screen finally sharpened.The figure beyond the half-open door was Emma, my beloved sister.She stood among several burly men in a skintight minidress unlike anything she normally wore.She looked perfectly composed, with a trace of something inviting, something teasing, in her face."Look at that! It's Emma!"The crowd in the seats broke into an uproar.Someone shot to their feet, refusing to believe it."How could it be her?""There has to be an explanation!"Leo's expression turned thunderous.He was silent for only a few seconds, then grabbed at it the way a drowning man grabs at a straw. He said coldly, "Eva must have tricked her into going there. Emma is so innocent. How could she have known what kind of club it was! She was pregnant and had no choice. This whole thing is a trap Eva set!"Listening to him, I felt a dull ache spread through my chest.Even after seeing it with his own eyes, he still refused to believe me.No. More precisely, he refused to beli

My mother stumbled onto the platform.She shoved Leo aside and put herself in front of me.With everyone watching, she dropped hard onto both knees."Eva."She looked up at me.The eyes that had softened only for Emma were finally fixed on me.Except it was too late. My soul was already leaving my body, piece by piece."Mom was wrong. Mom is so sorry..." She reached for my face, but her hand stopped in midair."Emma grew up beside me. I watched her become a woman. I just couldn't bear it..." Her voice broke, and she could barely force out the words."I couldn't bear to watch her turn into someone who couldn't even control herself."The crowd below erupted."What is she even saying?""She felt sorry for the adopted one, so she threw her own daughter out?"A man shouted, his eyes red with anger, "Eva is your real daughter!"She grew up without a family! And she still earned her way into Columbia on her own!"If it weren't for you, she could have built a brilliant life!"How could you be